National Oatmeal Muffin Day is celebrated on December 19th each year. It's one of those minor holidays with no known origin, but since it involves a delicious and healthy muffin, we are happy to celebrate this fun foodie day.
A Bit of Background
A Muffin, or Quick-Bread, is similar to cupcakes both in size and in cooking method.
Muffins are popular breakfast foods, especially served with coffee.
Muffins come in many varieties and can be savory (like cheese muffins) or sweet like blueberry or banana nut muffins.
Oatmeal muffins have oatmeal as the primary ingredient – which has many health benefits which far outweigh any worry you might have over calories.
Oatmeal muffin recipes began appearing in American cookbooks as long ago as the mid-1800s. They are made with flour, butter, eggs, OATMEAL, and baking soda as the raising ingredient.
Quick Recipe for Easy Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients for a quick & easy oatmeal muffin recipe I like that I found on Allrecipes include 1 cup of quick cooking oats, milk, an egg, vegetable oil, flour and salt. Baking powder is added as the raising ingredient.
You can find the exact list of ingredients and also the directions for mixing this muffin recipe at the Allrecipes site for Easy Oatmeal Muffins.
Prep time is about 15 minutes and baking in a preheated oven (at 425 degrees) is 20-25 minutes. Not long at all for a dozen tasty breakfast muffins. A warm, delicious treat on a cold morning.
Summary
So whip up a batch of Oatmeal Muffins, or pick up a few at your local bakery, to celebrate this day with a delicious & healthy breakfast treat.
National Oatmeal Muffin Day
December 19
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*National Oatmeal Muffin Day review written by
~Wednesday Elf
**Images are from Pixabay; Intro image was created with GetStencil.
