Simple Oat Flour Pumpkin Muffins

These wholesome oat flour pumpkin muffins, with just some chocolate chips, have a tons of taste, an excellent tender crumb and are naturally gluten-free.

As an oat flour skilled and creator of an entire class of oat flour recipes, I am going to educate you the guidelines and tips to creating completely tender, moist muffins with this uniquely hearty flour and its pure sweetness!

Why this recipe works

This recipe ensures a moist, tender muffin with wealthy pumpkin taste utilizing solely a single whole-grain flour for construction. It’s filled with healthful substances, a modest quantity of sugar, and no added butter or oil, making it a wholesome snack or on-the-go breakfast.

The key to its success lies in a novel mixture of substances and method. We use loads of pumpkin puree and bitter cream to supply moisture and bind the batter. This, mixed with an important resting interval, prevents the muffins from being dry or crumbly.

For comfort, you possibly can simply make the batter in a blender or by hand. In case you’re utilizing the hand methodology, beginning with a high-quality, store-bought oat flour like Gold Medal or Bob’s Purple Mill will provide you with the perfect outcomes.

Key substances defined

Here is an evidence of what every of the straightforward substances in these muffins does to create a young, high-rising muffin.

• Oat flour – Provides construction and loads of complete grain vitamin. You need to use 2 1/2 cups of store-bought oat flour, or simply grind 3 cups of old school oats in a blender. In case you want your muffins to be gluten free, make certain your oats or flour are protected.
• Baking powder & soda – Present rise and assist the muffins brown within the oven. Ensure that yours is contemporary.
• Salt – Balances sweetness and brightens the opposite flavors.
• Pumpkin pie spice – This mix of heat spices makes pumpkin baked items style like we anticipate. To make your personal, mix 1/2 teaspoon floor cinnamon + 1/4 teaspoon floor ginger + 1/8 teaspoon floor allspice, 1/8 teaspoon floor cloves + a touch of some freshly floor nutmeg.
• Brown sugar – Provides sweetness, helps lure moisture for a young crumb, and provides some depth of taste.
• Pumpkin puree – Provides moisture, some pectin, and taste. My favourite model of canned pumpkin puree is Libby, because it normally has a vibrant orange colour and is not too watery. In case you can see a number of extra moisture, soak it up first with a paper towel earlier than measuring 12 ounces.
• Bitter cream – Provides moisture, some tangy taste, and a little bit of fats for tenderness. You may also use plain Greek-style yogurt as a replacement. Keep away from fat-free varieties, which can make your muffins harder.
• Vanilla – Provides some depth of taste.
• Eggs – Add some rise, moisture, a bit of fats from the yolks, and assist the muffins maintain their rise as they cool.
• Chocolate chips – Just some ounces of chocolate chips add a number of complementary taste to pumpkin, cut back the moisture content material of the muffin batter a bit, and assist them rise taller.

Find out how to make oat flour pumpkin muffins (step-by-step images)

You can also make this complete batter in a blender, simply mix quaint oats into oat flour and use a mixing bowl for all the pieces else, or start with oat flour and skip the blender altogether.

The total recipe with ingredient quantities is within the recipe card under. Here is an summary with images of the way you’d make them in your personal kitchen:

1. Whisk dry & combine moist substances

Whisk collectively the dry substances, together with the oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, in a big mixing bowl. This bowl ought to be sufficiently big for the mixed muffin batter. Mixing the dry substances individually first ensures nothing clumps collectively and your batter is uniform.

In a separate, medium dimension bowl, whisk collectively the pumpkin puree, bitter cream, eggs, vanilla, and brown sugar till very easy. Whisk vigorously till all the pieces is well-combined to keep away from overmixing the batter after including the oat flour.

2. End the batter

Pour the moist ingredient combination into the massive bowl of dry substances, and blend with a spatula simply till a thick, comfortable batter types. Combine in many of the chocolate chips, reserving just a few to scatter on prime of every muffin. There aren’t a number of chocolate chips in these muffins, and scattering just a few on prime means every muffin may have some seen chips.

Cowl the blending bowl and let the muffin batter sit for not less than 20 minutes, and as much as 1 hour, at room temperature. The oat flour will take in a few of the moisture from the moist substances, and thicken for taller muffins.

3. Switch the batter and bake the muffins

Divide the muffin batter evenly between 12 cups of a regular muffin tin. I wish to line the wells with greaseproof muffin liners to assist the muffins rise tall and stop the muffins from sticking to the wells.

Bake at 350°F for about 25 minutes, or till the middle of the center muffins within the tin springs again when pressed gently within the heart. If the muffins are nonetheless moist after 25 minutes, cut back the oven temperature to 325°F and even 300°F and proceed to bake till finished.

Professional suggestions

Do not overprocess the oats

In case you select to make the batter within the blender, you should definitely grind the oats first and take away them from the blender, mix the remainder of the substances and blend within the oat flour on the finish. Watch out to not overprocess batter that accommodates oats or oat flour, or your baked items might prove gummy and considerably robust.

Let the muffin batter relaxation

After combining all of the substances into the uncooked muffin batter, let it relaxation for not less than 20 minutes and as much as 1 hour. This permits the oat flour to soak up moisture from the bitter cream, pumpkin puree and eggs. A thicker, sturdier batter will rise greater within the oven for tall muffin domes, however nonetheless make moist and tender muffins with loads of moisture.

If you would like to make the batter forward of time, you possibly can even switch it to the muffin tin, cowl it, and refrigerate it in a single day. Let the batter come to room temperature earlier than baking as ordinary.

Ingredient substitutions

So long as you utilize gluten free oats or oat flour, these muffins are naturally gluten free. They do comprise different substances you could have to keep away from. Listed below are my ideas for altering them:

Oat free

In case you’re avoiding oats, you need to have the ability to use quinoa flakes instead of the oat flour. Please see my full dialogue of find out how to substitute for oats in baking.

If you cannot have oats however should be gluten free, strive our conventional gluten free pumpkin muffins, made with an all function gluten free flour mix. They’re gentle, tender, and have an (optionally available) candy crumble topping.

Dairy free

Since there isn’t any butter in these muffins, the one dairy is the bitter cream. It may be changed with nondairy plain yogurt, strained of liquid till it reaches the consistency of Greek-style yogurt. You may also use plain Greek-style dairy yogurt. 

Pumpkin

If you would like to make these muffins with a special taste, strive our banana oatmeal muffins. They’ve related substances, and are additionally made with oat flour.

Egg free

There are 3 full eggs on this recipe, which I believe it too many for “chia eggs”or “flax eggs”. As an alternative strive including:

• 1/2 cup (60 grams) oat flour
• 90 grams plain (dairy or nondairy) yogurt
• 1 1/2 additional teaspoons baking powder, and
• 1 1/2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

Pumpkin pie spice

If you do not have pumpkin pie spice, you may make your personal as described above within the substances part, or simply use 1 teaspoon floor cinnamon as an alternative.

Chocolate chips & mix-in ideas

I like to recommend changing them with one thing, since having a mix-in reduces the moisture content material of the general muffin batter and helps them rise greater within the oven. Keep away from something that provides additional moisture, which can make the muffins fall as they cool. Listed below are just a few dry mix-in ideas:

• Cinnamon, milk chocolate, or white chocolate chips
• Chopped comfortable nuts like pecans, walnuts or cashews
• Small dried fruit like raisins, chopped dried apricots, or dried cranberries

Sugars

As an alternative of sunshine brown sugar, you should utilize an equal quantity, by weight, of granulated coconut palm sugar, which is about 3/4 cup.

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