Best 20 Healthy Muffins Recipes

HEALTHY HAM AND EGG MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Spray 12 muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper liners.
• Combine eggs, spinach, red bell pepper, ham, egg whites, feta cheese, water, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Ladle egg mixture into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until set in the middle, 20 to 25 minutes.

HEALTHY CARROT CAKE MUFFINS RECIPE BY TASTY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs until light and fluffy.
• Add in the Greek yogurt and whisk again until the mixture is smooth and fluffy.
• Pour in the maple syrup, milk, and vanilla extract. Beat the mixture again until smooth.
• Add the shredded carrots, whole wheat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon over the wet ingredients. Using a rubber spatula, fold the wet and dry ingredients together just until combined.
• Using a medium ice cream scoop, portion the batter into a greased 12-cup muffin tin.
• Bake for 20 minutes, until the muffins have risen and set.
• For the frosting, beat the cream cheese in a small bowl until smooth.
• Add in the maple syrup and vanilla and beat again until the mixture is well combined.
• Once the muffins have cooled, use a small ice cream scoop to spoon a bit of the frosting on top of the muffins. Gently tap the muffins on the counter to smooth out the layer of frosting on top.
• Enjoy!

HEALTHY BANANA OAT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.
• Melt the butter in a small skillet set over medium heat, and cook until it starts to bubble and foam, about 5 minutes. Continue cooking, stirring constantly, until the foam subsides and brown specks start to appear, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer the butter to a medium mixing bowl to cool slightly.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, 1/2 cup of the oats, the baking powder, salt and baking soda.
• Add the sour cream, sugar and vanilla to the browned butter and whisk. Add the eggs and whisk until combined. Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Then fold in the bananas (don't worry if there are a few lumps).
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pan. Sprinkle with the remaining 2 tablespoons oats. Bake until the muffins are light golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 24 minutes. Cool in the pan for a few minutes, and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

HEALTHY SWEET POTATO MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Mix sweet potato, egg whites, sugar, water, applesauce, canola oil, vanilla extract, and orange zest together in a bowl.
• Whisk all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda together in a separate bowl. Mix flour mixture into sweet potato mixture until just combined. Gently stir cranberry sauce into batter. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin.
• Bake in the preheated oven until muffins are browned and tops spring back when pressed lightly in the middle, about 30 minutes. Cool in the muffin tin for 5 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

HEALTHY PUMPKIN CRANBERRY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Stir milk and vinegar together in a small bowl.
• Mix whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, oats, baking soda, ginger, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt in a large bowl.
• Whisk pumpkin, brown sugar, white sugar, vegetable oil, and egg together in a separate bowl; beat in milk mixture until smooth. Stir flour mixture into pumpkin mixture until just combined. Fold in fresh and dried cranberries. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool muffins in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to wire rack to cool completely.

HEALTHY OAT BRAN & RAISIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine the oat brain, baking powder and cinnamon.
• Add the remaining ingredients and mix well.
• Let stand for 5 minutes to allow the batter to thicken.
• Spoon into a prepared muffin tin.
• Bake at 425 degrees F for 12-15 minutes.

HEALTHY BLUEBERRY-CARROT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners and spay the liners lightly with cooking spray.
• Reserve 1/2 cup of the blueberries for garnish. Place the remaining blueberries in a large bowl and lightly crush them with the back of a fork (crushing keeps them from sinking to the bottom of the muffin batter during baking). Add the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt to the blueberries and stir to combine. Whisk together the milk, oil, brown sugar, carrots, eggs, lemon zest and vanilla in another bowl, whisking until no clumps of brown sugar remain. Fold the milk mixture into the flour mixture until just combined (don't worry if there are a few lumps).
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared muffin cups. Press the reserved blueberries into the tops of the muffins. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the tops of the muffins with the turbinado sugar. Rotate the pan and continue to bake until the muffins are golden and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out clean, 20 to 24 minutes. Cool the muffins in the pan for a few minutes, then transfer the muffins to a rack to cool completely.

HEALTHY HARVEST BREAKFAST MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Line muffin pan with cups, if desired.
• Squirt each cup with non-stick cooking spray.
• Combine first 8 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Stir until well blended.
• In a separate smaller bowl combine next 5 ingredients (bananas - butter), stir until well blended.
• In another separate small bowl, combine next 6 ingredients (almonds - nutmeg) for muffin topping.
• Add banana mixture to the flour mixture along with the raisins, if you desire.
• STIR JUST UNTIL MOISTENED. Do not over stir.
• Fill muffin cups 2/3 way full.
• Press enough of the brown sugar-nut topping into each muffin to cover the top, and to your taste. About 2 Tbsp per muffin.
• Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes, until the muffin springs back when lightly touched.
• Makes 16 small muffins, or 8 giant-sized muffins.

HEALTHY BLUEBERRY AND BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners. Combine flour, sugar, oat bran, baking powder, and salt in medium bowl; whisk to blend.
• Place mashed bananas in large bowl. Stir in soy milk, egg, oil, and lemon juice. Mix in dry ingredients, then blueberries. Divide batter among muffin papers. Bake muffins until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Turn muffins out onto rack and cool 10 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.

HEALTHY PUMPKIN-BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray or line with paper liners.
• Combine oat bran, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and mix thoroughly.
• Combine milk, molasses, egg, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract in a separate bowl and mix well. Stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Add pumpkin puree and mix just enough to evenly distribute; do not overstir.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, 15 to 17 minutes.

THE ULTIMATE HEALTHY MUFFINS

Steps:

• SOAK: oats, 12 grain cereal and cornmeal in yoghurt and apple sauce (or prune puree) for 1/2 hour. Add brown sugar, egg and mix well.
• MIX: flour, flax, baking powder, baking soda - Add to yoghurt mix. Combine just until moist. Batter should be fairly thick. Add a tablespoon or two more of flour if batter is runny.
• FOLD: fold in berries (or fruit) dried cranberries (or rasins).
• Grease muffin pan or use line with muffin cups.
• Makes 12 muffins (or 6 super muffins!).
• Bake at 350 F for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick inserted into muffin comes out clean.

HEALTHY BREAKFAST OAT BRAN BANANA NUT MUFFINS (NO SUGAR) SUPER S

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit . Grease or spray your muffin pan if you are not using paper muffin cups.
• Put all the dry ingredients (the first 5 ingredients listed above are all the dry ingredients) into a large mixing bowl and mix with a spoon (doesn't matter what kind of spoon) until well combined.
• Add the chopped gala apple to the large mixing bowl containing all the dry ingredits and give it a quick stir and a couple folds. Don't spend too much time mixing it because it will be mixed again later on in the recipe. Set this bowl aside. It will not be needed again until step 7 of the recipe.
• In a medium mixing bowl, add the almond milk and crunchy peanut butter. Whisk with a fork until the peanut butter is blended with the milk. It doesn't take very long to do. As a note, the substitutions for the peanut butter and almond milk are in the recipe description. If you are using any kind of dried fruit including raisins, then put them in with the wet ingredients now. That way they will start soaking up some liquid and plumping a bit.
• Mix in the Greek yogurt (I use 0% fat to keep the recipe low calorie, but high protein) and the 2 eggs to the medium mixing bowl containing the milky, peanut butter deliciousness. Mix to combine well.
• Add the well-mashed banana to the bowl with the rest of the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Sometimes I break the bananas into chunks and pop them into the Magic Bullet for 2 seconds instead of mashing them because I'm lazy like that. Overripe bananas provide the sweetness to these muffins. Using frozen bananas (defrosted before being mashed) adds a ton of moisture to this recipe. Frozen, overripe bananas are great to have on hand. You can use overripe (not frozen) bananas and this recipe will still work out. It's pretty forgiving that way. Even if you bananas are yellow they will work, but you'll have to try this recipe in the future when you have your frozen overripe bananas ready and you'll see what I mean. It takes it to a whole new level!
• In a circular motion, pour the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients. Instead of just dumping the wet ingredients in I like to pour it around because apparently too much mixing of muffin batter will make them hard (dense) and starting off with a somewhat even coat of wet on top of dry will allow for less mixing and, therefore, lighter muffins. But, hey, if you want to knock yourself out and dump it all in then go for it! Don't let me cramp your style, but if you do that, then please don't say my muffin recipe leads to dense muffins :).
• Mix with a spoon until the wet and dry ingredients are blended. Try not to stir them too much, but just enough until the ingredients are mixed. Let it stand for roughly 2 to 3 minutes. I like doing this because it gives a little bit of time for the oat bran to moisten up a tiny bit more. I usually set the bowl aside while I get the muffin cups ready. I have a hard time separating those little buggers so by the time the cups are ready it's been about 2 minutes. After the batter sits for just a few minutes, it's now time to start filling the pan which will be described in the step below.
• These muffins don't rise very much. Maybe about a 1/4 inch to a maximum of 1/2 inch. Fill your muffin cups accordingly. I usually get anywhere from 14 to 16 medium muffins. You can get 12 large ones. I'm not fancy so I use a soup spoon and heap it up with batter to fill each cup. I've heard of people using ice cream scoops and go for it if you have one on hand. I don't like doing dishes too much so the soup spoon I used to mix the ingredients words great for me!
• Place the muffin pan on the middle rack and bake at 375 for 20 to 25 minutes or until the tops starts to brown just a tad and a toothpick comes out clean. Make sure to keep an eye on these babies because every oven is different. I put on a timer, but if it hasn't gone off yet and I start smelling them from the next room I'll go take a quick peak.
• Once they are done, remove from the oven. Put the individual muffins onto a cooling rack so that the bottoms do not continue cooking and get hard. The muffin top will have a nice crunch and the inside will be nice and moist with bursts of sweetness coming from the apple pieces. The oat bran will have the consistency of cooked steel oats; a chewy texture. Yum! Now, keep in mind that the integrity of these muffins are to be healthy, so don't be expecting the sweetness and gooey, cakey insides like what you would get out of a chocolate chip muffin or banana bread muffin. If you don't care about the health factor then go ahead and add some chocolate chips and sugars. I won't be offended! I've only used paper muffin cups for this recipe and I found that when I ate them before they cooled that they stuck just a tiny bit to the paper (not too much, though). Later in the evening once they completely cooled they stopped sticking. Just a tip -- .

HEALTHY FRUIT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Spray a 12-muffin tin with non-stick spray and set aside, or use muffin liners.
• Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl.
• Set aside.
• Drain peaches and reserve 1/3 cup of syrup.
• Puree peaches and reserved syrup in a blender, until smooth.
• Whisk the peach puree, sugar, egg substitute and oil.
• Add Bran Flakes and mix well.
• Add flour mixture and stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.
• DO NOT OVERMIX!
• Gently fold in blueberries.
• Divide batter among the muffin cups (about 2/3 full).
• Bake for 20 mins, or until toothpick test shows doneness.
• Serve warm.

HEALTHY BANANA BREAD MUFFINS

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners. Whisk together the whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl.
• Whisk together the coconut oil, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla and egg whites in a separate medium bowl until well combined. Stir in the mashed banana. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until combined. Stir in the chopped walnuts if using.
• Fill the lined muffin cups about three-quarters of the way with the batter (a generous 1/4 cup in each; see Cook's Note). Bake on the center rack until a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes, then remove the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.

HEALTHY PROTEIN MORNING GLORY MUFFINS

Steps:

• Run pineapple and carrots through juicer according to manufacturer's instructions. Pour juice into a container and reserve pulp in a bowl. Run zucchini through juicer and add zucchini pulp to pineapple-carrot pulp. Discard zucchini juice.
• Measure 2 cups pineapple-carrot juice. If juice doesn't reach 2 cups, add enough water to make 2 cups. Bring pineapple-carrot juice and quinoa to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until quinoa is tender and liquid has been absorbed, 15 to 20 minutes. Measure 1 cup cooked quinoa and set aside to cool.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 16 silicon muffin cup molds and place on a baking sheet or line a muffin tin with paper liners.
• Sift whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg together in a bowl.
• Mix applesauce, yogurt, sugar, eggs, coconut oil, and vanilla extract together in a bowl. Stir applesauce mixture, small amounts at a time, into flour mixture until batter is just combined. Fold the reserved 1 cup cooked quinoa, hempseed, raisins, and pineapple-carrot-zucchini pulp into batter; allow to sit for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Spoon a heaping 1/3 cup batter into each muffin cup.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, 23 to 27 minutes. Cool muffins in tin for 5 minutes before removing from muffin cups.

HEALTHY APPLE CARROT ZUCCHINI MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl grate zucchini/courgette and carrot. Cut the apple into small chunks.
• Preheat the oven to 170°C/340°F.
• In another bowl cream the egg and molasses with a pinch of salt. Add the grated veggies, oats and grated hazelnuts.
• Mix baking powder and flours and add to the egg mixture. Stirr until just combined.
• Now fold in the apples and pour batter into prepared muffin pan.
• Bake for about 30 minutes.

HEALTHY, LOW-FAT APPLE-GINGER OAT-BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• Line muffin cups of standard muffin pan with paper liners or spray with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a measuring cup combine milk and vinegar; set aside.
• In a large bowl combine 7 dry ingredients. Make a well in the center; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, combine milk and next 5 ingredients.
• Pour wet mixture into the well of the dry ingredients and mix until just combined and slightly lumpy.
• Pour into muffin pan.
• Make the streusel topping by combining flour and cinnamon. Stir in oil until mixture represents course crumbs. Stir in apple. Sprinkle over batter.
• Bake 15-18 minutes, or until tops are golden and toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes in pan on rack. Remove from pan and cool completely.

HEALTHY OATMEAL RAISIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 12 muffin cups.
• In mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients; mix well.
• In large bowl, combine all wet ingredients; blend well.
• Stir in dry ingredients, just until moistened. Stir in raisins.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling 2/3 full.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Immediately remove from pans.

HEALTHY VEGAN MORNING MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Mix together warm water and ground flaxseed; let sit for 5 minutes.
• Mix mashed bananas with applesauce, grated carrots, vegetable oil, almond milk, brown sugar, and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Mix in water and flaxseed mixture. Add in flour, oats, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, cloves, and salt and stir until just mixed. Pour 1/4 cup of batter into each muffin cup.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 30 minutes.

HEALTHY CEREAL WHEAT & BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Sift together Flour, Salt, Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and the Cinnamon and/or Nutmeg; Set Aside.
• Combined Egg Whites, Vanilla, Applesauce, Brown Sugar, and Mashed Bananas; add to the Flour Mixture.
• Stir in Pecans or Walnuts, Wheat Flakes and Raisin Bran; Mix well and let sit for 10 to 15 minutes to soften cereal.
• If batter seems to thick for your taste you can add another 1/2 cup Applesauce or 2% Milk, Plain Yogurt or even Buttermilk.
• Meanwhile spray a 12 count Muffin pan and Preheat oven to 350°.
• Conbined Streusel ingredients into a Ziploc bag and mix or shake thoroughly.
• Fill Muffin pan 3/4 of the way full and using fingers sprinkle the streusel on top of the batter.
• Bake for 30 to 40 minutes.
• Let Muffins cool slightly, then remove from the pan and enjoy!
• Great for Breakfast or as a snack!
• Muffins maybe Frozen for 6 weeks in a Double Airtight Ziploc Freezer Bag or container.