Healthy Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Muffins!

Stephanie brought blueberry oatmeal muffins last week to Bible study. They were delicious! She is an excellent cook. After I had her muffins, I had to make some of my own. I found this recipe at Allrecipes.com. That site is my favorite recipe website. I love the reviews of what other people have done. It helps to cut back on my own mistakes.

This is healthier version of the recipe listed on the website. It's pretty healthy and a versatile recipe so you could tweak it to make it even healthier!! They turned out really well. But they were a little dry the next day.

Ingredients:
* 1 cup soy or regular milk
* 1 cup quick cooking oats or rolled oats
* 1/4 cup honey (or a little less)
* 1 cup dried cranberries
* 1 egg
* 1/4 cup vegetable or canola oil
* 1/2 cup all-purpose white flour
* 1/2 cup wheat flour
* 1/4 cup white sugar
* 1/4 cup brown sugar
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
* 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
* 1 cup dark chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners. (Tip: Grind up half of the oats in the food processor. This gives the muffins a bit of a crunch. This is a Stephanie trick.)
2. In a small bowl, combine milk, honey, cranberries, vanilla, and all of the oats; let soak for 15 minutes.
3. In a separate bowl, beat together egg and oil; stir in oatmeal mixture. In a third bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients, just until combined. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups until cups are 2/3 full.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 22 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.

You can omit the oil all together (some of the reviews on the site did this) or replace with applesauce. I have not tried this. Many people added mashed bananas or blueberries. You can do a LOT with this recipe!

So I added chocolate and cranberries. What would be your favorite ingredients to add?