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Honey Nut Muffins Recipe

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These sweet Honey Nut Muffins are made using Honey Nut Cheerios, honey, applesauce, and a few kitchen staples. They’re slightly sweet, moist, and delicious!

Honey Nut Muffin on cutting board

Honey Nut Cheerios has been around since 1979. While similar to classic Cheerios, Honey Nut Cheerios is sweeter thanks to honey and almond flavoring.

If you visit the Cheerios’ website, you’ll fina d recipe for Applesauce Muffins. (Were you aware that there are recipes on the Cheerios’ website?)  However, rather than use the classic cereal, I thought I would use Honey Nut Cheerios.

box of Honey Nut Cheerios

Let’s look at how to make these muffins.

🥘 Ingredients

  • 2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios® cereal
  • 1 ¼ cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup apple applesauce
  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ⅓ cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 egg

🔪 Instructions

Start by placing dry ingredients in a food processor or Ninja blender:

Dry Ingredients in blender

After a few quick pulses, the mixture should be crumbly.

Blended cereal and flour

Add the remaining ingredients, pulse it a little more, and then had a batter that was ready to go into my muffin pan.

The original recipe for muffins with Cheerios uses brown sugar to sweeten the muffins. I substitute honey on a 1:1 basis. Since products made with honey brown faster, the temperature has been lowered by 25 degrees. (You can find more tips on baking with honey by clicking here.)

muffin batter

⏲️ Baking Time

Pop them in the oven for about 19 minutes.

Honey Nut Muffins in muffin tin

These muffins and a piece of fruit make for a quick, grab-and-go breakfast. They remind me of bran muffins, sans raisins. Of course, you could always add raisins to the muffin batter prior to baking, if you’d like.

Honey Nut Muffins

Lynda – Southern Kissed
These sweet Honey Nut Muffins are made using Honey Nut Cheerios, honey, applesauce, and a few kitchen staples. They're slightly sweet, moist, and delicious!
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Servings 12 muffins
Calories 156 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups Honey Nut Cheerios® cereal
  • 1 ¼ cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup apple applesauce
  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ tsp vanilla
  • cup milk
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 egg

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line muffin tin with paper liners and lightly spray with non-stick spray.
  • Combine all of the dry ingredients into blender or food processor and pulse until cereal is crumbly.
  • Add remaining ingredients and blend until well combined. (You might need to use a spatula to scrape sides of blender.)
  • Pour batter into muffin tin and bake for 18-22 minutes.
  • Allow to cool.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Calories: 156kcalCarbohydrates: 30gProtein: 3gFat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 262mgFiber: 1gSugar: 16g
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muffin

If you like butter, slather a little bit on the muffins for a more decadent muffin.


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11 Comments

  1. Yummy! What a great idea. I’ve only used bran cereal to make muffins. I need to give this a try. I like the way you mixed it in your Ninja. How big is it that it holds an entire recipe? I thought they were small. I need to check those out too.

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