Healthy Muffins Recipes

Face it: Some muffins are more like dessert than anything healthy. Our muffin recipes are lightened up and full of healthy ingredients like chopped apples, cranberries, raisins, and more. Add them to your own recipe collection today.

 
 
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Applesauce-Rhubarb Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

Bake any size, from dainty gems to giant button-busters. Although these muffins are best served fresh, to save time the morning of serving, they can be made ahead, frozen, and reheated.

Applesauce-Rhubarb Muffins

Banana Millet Muffins

From Heart-Healthy Living

Made with millet, applesauce, and bananas, these heart-healthy muffins will fill you up at breakfast or snack time.

Banana Millet Muffins

Cranberry Walnut Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

Try this delicious breakfast muffin recipe with dried cranberries, rolled oats, and walnuts.

Cranberry Walnut Muffins

Best of Bran Muffins

From Diabetic Living

This healthy muffin recipe contains flaxseeds and canola oil, which are both high in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids.

Best of Bran Muffins

Herb-Bran Muffins

From Diabetic Living

Partner these custom muffins (pick your favorite herb) with a frittata or omelet.

Herb-Bran Muffins

Chive Batter Bread

From Better Homes and Gardens

No kneading involved, this bread recipe is a fast and easy way to achieve the rich taste of home-baked yeast bread.

Chive Batter Bread

Buttermilk Corn Muffins

From Diabetic Living

This savory muffin recipe is less sweet than most corn breads. The muffins are delicious as a side dish to soups or chili.

Buttermilk Corn Muffins

Raisin-Carrot Muffins

From Diabetic Living

Wheat germ and carrots add to the fiber for these diabetic-friendly muffins. Serve them for breakfast or brunch.

Raisin-Carrot Muffins

Pumpkin Muffins

From Diabetic Living

The secret to these delicious low-calorie muffins is a combination of moist, rich pumpkin and flavorful buckwheat. They're also rich in fiber.

Pumpkin Muffins

Sugar-Topped Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

Bakers have been using poppy seed to decorate cakes and breads since the days of the ancient Egyptians and Romans. We've used them here to add both flavor and texture.

Sugar-Topped Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Buckwheat-Blueberry Muffins

From Diabetic Living

The buckwheat flour gives this muffin recipe a fiber boost while the blueberries and butternut squash crank up the vitamins and phytonutrients. Freeze the muffins and a warm snack is only a 1-minute microwave reheating away.

Buckwheat-Blueberry Muffins

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

From Heart-Healthy Living

Poppyseeds add flavor and texture to these low-fat muffins. Enjoy them at breakfast or try them as a snack or for dessert.

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

These quick and easy low calorie blueberry muffins can be ready in about half an hour.

Lemon-Blueberry Muffins

Ginger Pear Muffins

From Diabetic Living

Pieces of juicy pear inside and a crispy oat bran mixture on top make this tender muffin recipe good for breakfast or even dessert.

Ginger Pear Muffins

Spicy Apple-Kasha Muffins

From Diabetic Living

If you can't find ground roasted buckwheat groats in your grocery store, ask for kasha--its commonly used name. Check the package label before buying. Kasha is available in fine, medium, and coarse grinds.

Spicy Apple-Kasha Muffins

White House Honey-Oat Muffins

From Food & Wine

Spike Mendelsohn was inspired by the new beehive in the White House garden to make these lovely, not-too-sweet muffins. "I'm not a big breakfast eater, but I have muffins in my house right now," he says.

White House Honey-Oat Muffins

Pernille Pederson
Banana-Oat Muffins

From Heart-Healthy Living

This recipe for low-fat banana muffins can be made quickly with a blender. Bake them up for breakfast or a snack.

Banana-Oat Muffins

Lemon-Raspberry Muffins

From EatingWell

The secret to the sparkling flavor of these delicately crumbed muffins is the strips of lemon zest finely ground into the sugar. Enjoy the muffins warm right from the oven.

Lemon-Raspberry Muffins

Orange-Yogurt Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

These mini muffins are great for brunch. And they're fairly low in calories so you can enjoy more than one.

Orange-Yogurt Muffins

Tangerine Puckers

From Diabetic Living

This mini muffin recipe are sized just right for snacking. Each one has less than 50 calories and only 1 gram of fat.

Tangerine Puckers

Pumpkin Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

These healthful low-fat muffins are moist with the flavors of pumpkin, orange juice, and flavorful buckwheat.

Pumpkin Muffins

Apple-Pumpkin Muffins

From Diabetic Living

For Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast or brunch, serve these diabetic food plan fruit muffins. The applesauce and pumpkin make them moist, low-fat, healthful, and delicious.

Apple-Pumpkin Muffins

Apple and Oat Bran Muffins

From Better Homes and Gardens

This apple and spice muffin recipe is low in fat and calories. With its make-ahead batter, you can enjoy these treats fresh from the oven any morning of the week.

Apple and Oat Bran Muffins

Pineapple Upside-Down Muffins

From EatingWell

Glistening like sticky buns, these unusual muffins are packed with wholesome ingredients--vegetables, fruit and whole grains--so you can feel good about serving them to your family. If you prefer to make simple carrot muffins for lunchboxes or breakfasts-on-the-go, omit the topping; sprinkle 2 tablespoons chopped nuts over the muffins before baking, if desired.

Pineapple Upside-Down Muffins

Mini Greek Pizza Muffins

From EatingWell

All the flavors of a Greek pizza make these savory muffins bite-size treats for adults and kids alike.

Mini Greek Pizza Muffins

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