Prunes Muffin Recipe

This Prunes Muffin recipe makes cozy, old-fashioned breakfasts with real fruit and hearty oats.
Sweet, soft prunes create juicy bites in every muffin, replacing some refined sugar.

Oat flakes add gentle crunch, extra fiber, and that nostalgic bakery-style muffin texture. Enjoy these prune muffins warm for breakfast, snacks, or a quick grab-and-go treat.

They pair beautifully with coffee, tea, or a glass of cold milk. If you love easy, homemade muffins, this recipe belongs in your regular rotation. It’s a simple, classic prune muffin recipe that feels wholesome, thrifty, and comforting.

Marjorie B.

Prunes Muffin

With prunes and oatmeal flakes, these muffins are reminiscent of an era long gone. You will enjoy these healthy muffins for their flavor as much as for the health benefit they will bring your family.

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 35 minutes mins

Servings: 12 muffins

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 2½ cup All Purpose Flour sifted
• ¾ cup Packed Brown Sugar
• 2 teaspoon Baking powder
• ½ cup Old Fashioned oats
• 1 cup Prunes Pitted and finely chopped
• 2 Eggs, large room temperature
• ¼ cup Vegetable oil
• ¼ cup Non-salted butter melted
• 1 cup Whole milk room temperature
• ¼ cup Sour cream room temperature
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Method

 

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. While oven is pre-heating, grease a muffin pan with some butter and lightly coat with flour.
2. In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
3. In a medium bowl, add the melted butter, vegetable oil, milk, eggs, sour cream, vanilla extract and sugar. Whisk together until combined.
4. Add oat flakes, prunes and the wet ingredient mixture to the dry ingredient and combine with a wooden spoon or spatula. Do not to over-mix.
5. Fill each muffin mold up to 3/4 with a spoon. Cook in the 400F oven for 20 minutes or until a knife inserted in the middle of the muffin comes out clean.
6. Allow 10 minutes of cool down before demolding.

Notes

TIP: Adding a small ramekin of water increases the humidity in the oven to keep the muffins nice and moist during the bake but this is optional.