These Cappucino Chocolate Chip muffins are great for breakfast or dessert! By pairing down the amount of sugar, flour and oil and substituting those ingredients with lots of oats, applesauce, fat-free milk, and brewed coffee, you can enjoy 3 of these mini muffins for just 5 MyWW purple points or 6 MyWW Green or Blue points. Don’t have a mini muffin pan? No problem. You can bake these as regular sized muffins and swap out the three mini muffins for one regular sized muffin.

I haven’t been posting many recipes lately… There is a reason for that.

If you come to MPM very often you may have noticed that I have not been posting many recipes lately. Some weeks every recipe I experiment with is a homerun and I can’t wait to share it with you. Other weeks, not so much… Some weeks I could have three recipe ideas flop in a row. This can be discouraging, of course, especially if a recipe is so bad we have to throw out the food. Throwing out food is VERY rare in our home, but there was one recipe flop I made this week that NO ONE in our home could eat. I mean, it was bad! I will not be sharing that recipe with you. You’re welcome.

My motto for this blog has always been “quality over quantity”. I don’t want to fill this website up with recipes that are terrible just to have a lot of recipes on here. I figure if I am disappointed with a recipe, chances are good our readers will be too. I get that I can’t cater to everyone’s tastes, but there are definitely some recipes that I try and I just know NO ONE is going to like this. The last thing I want to do is have you waste money on ingredients, take the time to make the recipe, and then hate it and toss out the food.

“Not a flop” Cappuccino Chocolate Chip Muffins.

So, you can imagine that after a rough week with my recipe creations, I get really excited when a recipe actually turns out as good as, or better than, I hoped. I am happy to report to you that this recipe (and the Chicken and Stuffing casserole I posted recently) have NOT been flops in the Hughes household. It feels great to get to share my muffins with you this week! I hope you love them too!

Three things I love about these muffins:

1. They are easy to make. There are just three easy steps to this recipe: Mix the wet stuff, add in the dry stuff, and bake the muffins.
2. I like that they are low in smart points. You can make these as mini muffins or as regular-sized muffins. Here are the smart points totals, depending on how many muffins/what size you are making….
   

   MyWW points for these muffins:

   1 mini muffin: 2 Green, 2 Blue, or 2 Purple points
   2 mini muffins: 4 Green, 4 Blue, or 3 Purple points
   3 mini muffins: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points
   

   or

   1 regular sized muffin: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points
   

3. These muffins have enough good stuff in them to be eaten for breakfast but they are also sweet enough to be eaten as a dessert.
4. Kids love to make, and eat, these. The mini muffins made for a quick and easy snack for our kids, and two of our three kids thought these tasted great so we consider that a win in our house. My daughter was really proud when she tasted how good the muffins were. In her proud moment, she turned to my husband and said, “I made these… Oh! And mommy helped.” Thanks for letting me help, Keely! 😉 

What to do with the leftovers.

Because this recipe makes 18 normal sized muffins, or 54 mini muffins, you probably won’t eat them all right away. Any leftovers you have can go in the refrigerator. When you are ready to eat one, just pop it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds. Then, make a cup of coffee to go with it, and sit back and enjoy your little treat.

Here is what you need:

1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup strong brewed coffee
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup canola oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup  miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1-1/2 cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats, uncooked

Here is what you do:

Preheat oven to 400°F.

In a large bowl, with mixer on medium-low speed, beat sugars with coffee, milk, applesauce, oil, egg and vanilla.

Beat in flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.

Using a spoon or spatula, stir in oats and chocolate chips.

Scoop 1 tablespoon mix into each mini muffin cup (3 tablespoons if you are using a regular size muffin pan).

Allow mini muffins to bake 8 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean (Bake for 10 minutes if making regular size muffins).

Makes 54 mini muffins or 18 regular size muffins.

MyWW points for these muffins:

1 mini muffin: 2 Green, 2 Blue, or 2 Purple points
2 mini muffins: 4 Green, 4 Blue, or 3 Purple points
3 mini muffins: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points

or

1 regular sized muffin: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points

.

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4.67 from 6 votes

Weight Watchers friendly Oatmeal Cappuccino Muffins

1 mini muffin: 2 Green, 2 Blue, or 2 Purple points

2 mini muffins: 4 Green, 4 Blue, or 3 Purple points

3 mini muffins: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points

or

1 regular sized muffin: 6 Green, 6 Blue, or 5 Purple points

Makes: 54 mini muffins

Calories: 134

Author: Alisha Hughes

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup strong brewed coffee
• 1/2 cup fat-free milk
• 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/4 cup canola oil
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1-1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• 1-1/2 cup quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats, uncooked

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In a large bowl, with mixer on medium-low speed, beat sugars with coffee, milk, applesauce, oil, egg and vanilla.
• Beat in flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
• Using a spoon or spatula, stir in oats and chocolate chips.
• Scoop 1 tablespoon mix into each mini muffin cup (3 tablespoons if you are using a regular size muffin pan).
• Allow mini muffins to bake 8 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean (Bake for 10 minutes if making regular size muffins).
• Makes 54 mini muffins or 18 regular size muffins.

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