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oatmeal breakfast muffins cut in half on a white plate

Oatmeal Breakfast Muffins

Sheila
Easy to adapt and full of flavor these breakfast muffins are perfect for breakfast on the go or to pack in lunches.
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course baked goods
Cuisine baked goods
Servings 12 muffins

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Oatmeal (old fashioned)
  • 1 cup Buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 2 Egg lightly beaten
  • 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Vegetable Oil
  • 1 cup Flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 1/8 tsp ground clove
  • 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg

Cinnamon Streusel Topping

  • 1/2 cup Flour
  • 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 cup Oatmeal
  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 1/2 stick Butter
  • dash of salt

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Mix oatmeal and buttermilk together in bowl and let set for 10 minutes.
  • In large bowl whisk together, flour, cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg, and salt.
  • Add eggs to oatmeal buttermilk mixture beat lightly, add brown sugar, and vegetable oil combine well. Sprinkle baking soda over wet ingredients.
  • Make a well in dry ingredients, pour wet ingredients into flour and fold together with a spatula until just combined.

Streusel

  • Combine flour, brown sugar, and oatmeal, and cinnamon, cut 1/4 cup of butter into dry ingredients until you get a consistent crumble topping. You can use a pastry cutter, a fork, or your fingers.
  • Regular size muffins: Spoon 1/4 cup muffin batter into paper lined muffin tins, cover top of batter with streusel topping, be generous pressing streusel topping down so it creates a compact layer of crumb, use all the topping. Large muffins: 1/2 cup batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 18 minutes for regular sized muffins or 22 minutes for large muffins.

Notes

BUTTERMILK substitute = if you do not have buttermilk on hand, pour 1 cup of milk add 1 tablespoon of white vinegar.  If you don't have white vinegar you can use lemon juice. 
Keyword breakfast,, muffins, oatmeal
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