Quick and Healthy Apple Muffins

We've been making these muffins daily and they're a great healthy snack for me and the minions.  The original recipe that I modified from is here (and it would be a great recipe if you wanted a slightly sweeter and fancier muffin for an event.)

Quick & Healthy Apple Muffins

Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease (or paper) two muffin pans (makes 24)

Ingredients

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 egg

1/4 cup canola oil*

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

3/4 cup low fat buttermilk**

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 cup whole wheat flour

1 cup oat flour***

Mix together the wet ingredients (except the milk, but if you forget and add it at that point no big deal) then add the dry ingredients, adding the milk in between the two types of flours.  Combine until blended.  Fill the muffin tins halfway full and bake for approximately 16 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.  This makes for rather small muffins (the original recipe only makes 12) but doing it this way makes it a more of an appropriate serving size for my kids.  If you're making mini muffins bake for about nine minutes.

* haven't tried subbing coconut oil yet, because apple coconut sounds gross, if you do let me know how it turns out!

** if you don't keep buttermilk on hand (like me) splash some lemon juice into a bottom of a liquid measuring cup and then pour in milk to reach the 3/4 line.  Let sit for 5ish minutes.

*** or white flour, or more whole wheat flour.  I grind up some oats in my food processor until they're pulverized, but not as fine as flour.  We like the texture of the oat flour that way.