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Home » Recipe » Breakfast » Date and Oat Muffins

Date and Oat Muffins

Published on May 3, 2019 by Elizabeth 9 Comments
Last Updated on May 15, 2019

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These date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you’re a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you’ll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, wholemeal flour, buttermilk and chopped dates.

Date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you're a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you'll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, buttermilk and chopped dates. #breakfast #muffins #oatmuffins

Table of Contents

  • Easy Date & Oat Breakfast Muffins
  • Ingredients needed
  • How to make these date and oat muffins
  • Date & Oat Muffins Recipe Video
  • Tips for making these easy breakfast muffins
  • How many Weight Watchers Points are in this muffin recipe?
  • Date and Oat Muffin Recipe
  • Other Breakfast Muffins You Might Like
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    • Healthy Bran Muffins
    • Banana & Walnut Breakfast Muffins
    • Healthy carrot muffins - vegan and nut free

Easy Date & Oat Breakfast Muffins

If you’re looking for something a little different for a breakfast muffin, you’ve come to the right place!

I recently stumbled across this recipe in an old Canadian notebook one of my grandmothers sent me some years ago. It was a little yellow stapled-together, typed out on a typewriter and photocopied compilation entitled ‘Muffin Time!’, created by Lindel Distributors with the help of their friends.

I have no idea who Lindel Distributors were, or even which side of Canada they came from, but let me tell you, it’s a treasure trove of muffin recipes!

Date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you're a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you'll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, buttermilk and chopped dates. #breakfast #muffins #oatmuffins

These muffins are remarkably easy to make, and they’re deliciously moist and flavoursome. Despite the brown sugar content, and the natural sugars in the dates, they’re almost savoury in taste. 

I’ve slightly adapted the original recipe which called for wholemeal flour only – I’ve used equal parts wholemeal and plain/all-purpose flour. I’ve also sprinkled the muffin batter with a little rolled oats before baking, for decoration.

Serve with a generous slab of butter and a little jam for a leisurely breakfast.

Ingredients for date and oat muffins recipe

Ingredients needed

  • rolled oats
  • buttermilk – or sour milk
  • whole wheat flour
  • plain flour
  • baking soda
  • baking powder
  • salt
  • brown sugar
  • dates
  • egg
  • butter

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how to make date and oat muffins

How to make these date and oat muffins

  1. Mix oats and buttermilk in a bowl and set aside to soak.
  2. Combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, brown sugar and dates in a bowl.
  3. Beat the egg and melt the butter, and add to the oat mixture.
  4. Stir the oat mixture into the dry ingredients until just combined.
  5. Spoon into a prepared muffin tin.
  6. Bake in a preheated 190 °C/ 400 °F oven for 20 minutes.

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Date & Oat Muffins Recipe Video

These date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you’re a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you’ll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, wholemeal flour, buttermilk and dates.

Date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you're a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you'll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, buttermilk and chopped dates. #breakfast #muffins #oatmuffins

Tips for making these easy breakfast muffins

  • use paper muffin cases or grease your muffin tin well. Alternatively, silicone muffin pans are fabulously non-stick.
  • if you don’t have buttermilk you can substitute an equal quantity of full-fat milk, but add two teaspoonfuls of vinegar to sour it.
  • use ordinary dried cooking dates for this recipe – not those fancy Medjool ones.
  • make them even healthier by using 100% wholemeal flour instead of half wholemeal half white.
  • these muffins freeze well – make a batch at the weekend and defrost for breakfast at a later date!

How many Weight Watchers Points are in this muffin recipe?

There are 9 Weight Watchers Smart Points per date and oat muffin.

Date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you're a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you'll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, buttermilk and chopped dates. #breakfast #muffins #oatmuffins

Date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you're a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you'll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, buttermilk and chopped dates. #breakfast #muffins #oatmuffins

Date and Oat Muffin Recipe

These date and oat muffins are super easy to make, and they taste absolutely fantastic! If you’re a fan of sticky toffee pudding or date squares you’ll love these breakfast muffins made with rolled oats, wholemeal flour, buttermilk and chopped dates.
4.58 from 7 votes
Print Pin Rate
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 12 muffins
Calories: 203kcal
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

Metric - US Cup Measures
  • 110 grams porridge oats
  • 225 ml buttermilk see notes
  • 75 grams wholemeal flour
  • 75 grams plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 130 grams brown sugar
  • 150 grams dried dates chopped
  • 1 large free range egg
  • 50 grams butter melted

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 190 °C/ 400 °F and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases, or grease well.
  • Combine the oats and buttermilk in a small bowl and set aside. 
  • Combine the flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
  • Stir in the brown sugar and chopped dates, making sure all the pieces of dates are separated and covered in flour.
  • Beat the egg, melt the butter and add to the oat mixture.
  • Stir the wet ingredients into the dry just until everything is combined. Don't overmix.
  • Spoon into the prepared baking tin - each muffin cup should be about 3/4 full. Sprinkle with a little more rolled oats for decoration, if desired.
  • Bake in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes. 
  • Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Video

Notes

  • If you don't have buttermilk, use full-fat milk and add two teaspoonfuls of vinegar to it to make it sour.

Nutrition

Calories: 203kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 209mg | Potassium: 232mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 160IU | Calcium: 65mg | Iron: 1.3mg
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Healthy Bran Muffins

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Banana & Walnut Breakfast Muffins

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Comments

  1. Maggie says

    July 25, 2019 at 10:50 am

    5 stars
    Hi Elizabeth

    I have made your date and oat muffin recipe twice, the first time using the buttermilk substitute and the second time using buttermilk, the real deal. What a difference buttermilk makes! The result the second time was sensational. This recipe has now become my favourite date muffin recipe, shadowing my previous favourite..

    Reply
    • Elizabeth says

      July 26, 2019 at 6:54 am

      Oh I’m so glad you like the recipe! Buttermilk really does make a big difference, doesn’t it. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Samantha says

    May 16, 2019 at 5:39 pm

    I’ve had a lot more free time on my hands recently and have been trying to get into baking. These look delicious and like they wouldn’t be too difficult to make!

    Reply
  3. Debbie Skerten says

    May 13, 2019 at 8:29 am

    I love to find new muffin recipes and these sound wonderful. Thank you for putting WW sp on too. I can make a batch, freeze and have one for my breakfast still sticking to my WW plan.

    Reply
  4. Jones says

    May 9, 2019 at 6:07 am

    5 stars
    Wow that is some seriously lovely and delicious looking muffin! I really love these especially with coffee 😉

    Reply
  5. Clear Lifestyles says

    May 6, 2019 at 10:23 am

    5 stars
    I think these look healthy, and we all want healthy cake don’t we?

    Reply
  6. Mellissa Williams says

    May 4, 2019 at 4:58 pm

    5 stars
    Since my son has been home from uni he is eating me out of house and home. This recipe looks brilliant for healthy muffins so I am going to try them with these

    Reply
  7. Jane says

    May 3, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    Oh man, your description of these beauties made my mouth water! Gorgeous recipe, will be making it this weekend

    Reply
  8. Mandy says

    May 3, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    5 stars
    What a lovely sounding recipe – I love using dates in baking. Thanks for linking to my carrot muffins as well.

    Reply

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