It’s the holiday season and of course you’re running around shopping, cooking, and preparing. It’s normal to consume extra calories in November and December. If we really calculate things, the celebrations are a small portion of those two months. The good news is you do not have to sacrifice all of your hard work through the year in these two months. You can be sure to eat well the other days of the month and these Oatmeal Chia Protein Muffins make that possible.
These muffins are flavored with cinnamon, a little brown sugar and dried cranberries. They are not overly sweet. I use Kodiak Cakes Protein Packed pancake mix for these muffins. I rarely use shortcuts like this, but their pancake mix is so clean. You can read every single ingredient on the box. I really cannot prepare anything better from scratch, and it makes these muffins possible with one bowl. Not only are Oatmeal Chia Protein Muffins good for you, but they are easy too. I’ve given you virtually no excuse to hit the drive through while you’re out shopping.
Make up a batch of these muffins and get back to work my elves! With chia seeds, oats, and extra protein, you’ll be able to handle whatever the holiday has in store.
Oatmeal Chia Protein Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk
- 1 Banana, mashed
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 3/4 cup high protein pancake mix, like Kodiak brand
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda
- 3/4 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/3 cup dried cranberries, low sugar
- 1/8 cup Chia Seeds
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl- mix together the egg, almond milk, banana, brown sugar, cinnamon and coconut oil until well combined.
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Add in the pancake mix, baking soda, old fashioned oats and cranberries. Mix until combined, but do not over mix.
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Bake for 13-16 minutes or until golden on top and a toothpick is clean when inserted in the center. Allow to cool on a wire rack. Serve with butter or your favorite nut butter.
Krysten,
I added all the same ingredients to my lose it app excited to get a high protein snack but the results came out different than yours.
9 servings 168 calories each
7.5 fat
0.8 chol
188 sodium
24.6 carb
3.6 fiber
13.7 sugar
2.7 pro
Hi Yvonne!
This recipe is from a while ago when I was using a different recipe plug in. Please note I did use the Protein Packed variety of the Kodiak Kakes Mix which will effect the protein. I used My Fitness Pal to recalculate the label manually. I got 176 Calories- 8.2 grams of fat- 23.9 Carbs, and 4.5 grams protein. This is just a bit off from the calculations I got when I entered them into my new nutrition calculator and made a new label. The pancake mix used can vary the protein a lot. The 14 should definitely a be a 4. I am going through and correcting any labels at this time. Find the highest protein mix possible to increase the protein in these for sure. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for alerting me. I think we’ve definitely discovered that across the different nutrition labels you can can varying answers. I was never able to come up with your exact calculations, but both came very close.