These Strawberry Oatmeal Muffins are the perfect way to start your day! Packed with whole grains and fresh strawberries, they're nutritious and delicious. Plus, they're super easy to make. Just mix up the batter, fill the muffin cups, and bake. In no time at all, you'll have a batch of fresh, warm muffins to enjoy. Breakfast never tasted so good!
1 1/2cupsall-purpose flourscooped with a spoon and leveled with a knife
1/2teaspoonkosher salt
1teaspoonbaking powder
1/2teaspoonbaking soda
1/2cupunsalted butterroom temperature
1/2cupbrown sugar
1largeegg
1teaspoonpure vanilla extract
1cupmilk
½cupold fashioned oatmeal plus 1/4 cup
1cupstrawberrieshulled and finely diced
1teaspoonstrawberry extract
turbinado sugaroptional
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Line the muffin tin with paper liners or spray the tin with your favorite non-stick cooking spray and set aside. Wash, dry, hull, and finely dice the strawberries and set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, add in your sifted all-purpose flour, kosher salt, baking powder, and baking soda, and then set the bowl aside. If you don’t have a sifter, it’s okay. It’s really not needed.
Add the softened unsalted butter into a large mixing bowl, turn the mixer on and using a paddle attachment, start to cream the butter. Let the mixer run for approximately 3 minutes. Then add in the brown sugar. Continue creaming the sugar and butter together for another 2 to 3 minutes or until the ingredients are light and fluffy.
Next, add the egg and beat it into the batter. Add in ½ cup of the milk, then add in half of the dry ingredients and mix together. Then add in the remaining dry and the remainder of the milk. Then the vanilla extract.
Add in the strawberries, strawberry extract, and ½ cup of oatmeal. FOLD in with a spatula. DO NOT use a mixer. Just mix until you can no longer see the flour by itself. DO NOT OVERMIX.
Using a cookie scoop, scoop the batter into the muffin tins. Top with some of the oatmeal and turbinado sugar. The oatmeal and sugar topping are optional.
Place the tin into the oven and bake for 10 – 12 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the muffins comes out clean.