Oatmeal and Peach Muffins

by Anne
(Illinois)

Oatmeal and peaches are a really delicious combination, and make excellent muffins. I keep the ingredients as natural as possible, so these are lightly sweet.

(Also, if you want something red for Valentine's Day, put in strawberries instead! You can even add in a little red food coloring into the wet ingredients, below, to make the batter pink!)

I've noticed your web site tends to use healthy ingredients, which is how I bake too, so this should fit in well. Also, these muffins are really soft so would be easy for elderly people to eat too.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F)
Have 3/4 cup of fresh chopped peaches ready

Sift together:
1 cup of whole wheat pastry flour
3 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 tsp of cinnamon

Then add:
1 tsp of vanilla
Then stir in a cup of rolled oats

Beat together:
1 egg
1 cup of milk
1/4 cup of oil
4 Tablespoons of honey

Add the wet to the dry and stir only until combined.
Add in the peaches and stir gently, just until combined.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes.

Enjoy these for breakfast, brunch, or lunch. Or just for a snack even. Of course, you can use other fruit instead. This makes a good, natural, basic muffin recipe that you can do all kinds of things with!