Recipe: Coconut Mango Oat Muffins (2024)

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updated May 2, 2019

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Mornings are meant for muffins. They’re portable, easy to throw together, and can incorporate the season’s fruit beautifully. Such is the case with these vanilla-flecked, oat and coconut-strewn, mango-laden beauties.

I love these muffins for many reasons. First, you can mix them by hand and there will be very few dishes (always a good thing). Second, they rely on my most favorite fat for cooking and baking: coconut oil. Last, they have a slight heartiness from the oats, a nice sweetness from the mango and coconut, and a speckled fragrant crumb from the vanilla bean. They really are the best of many worlds baked into one pretty spring muffin.

I used Ataulfo mangoes for this recipe; Whole Foods was kind enough to send some along to test, and I couldn’t wait to fold them into something light and delicious for breakfast. If you’re not familiar with Ataulfo mangoes, they’re sometimes called Manila mangoes and are one of the sweetest varieties with a smooth, creamy flesh and a super small, thin pit. You can tell when your mango is ripe when it turns from green to golden yellow and when it gives a little after you gently squeeze it. You know those stringy fibers that make mangoes tough to cut and unpleasant to eat? Ataulfo mangoes are known to have very few of those.

When you’re laying out your ingredients for these muffins, do make sure your sour cream and egg are room temperature; if they’re too cold, you run the risk of re-solidifying the coconut oil which isn’t really the end of the world—it just necessitates more vigorous stirring. Also, if you don’t have oat flour, feel free to substitute whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour if you’d prefer. And it may seem fussy to call for two kinds of coconut, and there’s nothing I hate more than a recipe that should be simple and turns out overly fussy. I like the wide-flake coconut in the batter of these muffins and don’t think they need the added sweetness from sweetened, shredded coconut. That being said, I love the thin threads of sweetness atop these muffins, so I do call for both varieties here. Feel free to use one, whichever you prefer, or take my lead and experiment with both.

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