Yummy bran muffins
I bet you never thought yummy and bran belong in the same sentence. What makes the difference in these muffins is the yummy secret ingredients that offset the blandness of the bran. Before you go down the Metamucil pathway to get your fiber, try these muffins. Bran can be a pretty potent fiber, so start out by limiting yourself to one a day.
The original recipe came from the side of the Kellogg’s Bran Buds Cereal box, many, many years ago. I’ve made a few changes and have switched to using All-Bran Cereal, because Bran Buds is either no longer made, or not available in my area.
Yummy Bran Muffins
1 1/2 cups Kellogg’s All Bran Cereal
1 1/4 cups skim milk, soy milk or rice milk (I used rice milk)
1 egg
1/3 cup olive oil or canola oil
Not quite yummy-looking yet!
Pour bran cereal into a medium mixing bowl. Add egg, milk and oil, stir. Allow to sit for 2-5 minutes, until bran cereal is softened and mushy-looking. (It looks bad at this point, but it will get better.)
Stir in 1/2 cup white sugar, and
1/2 to 1 cup of yummy secret ingredients: chocolate chips, chopped dried cherries or apricots, chopped nuts, raisins, currents, sunflower seeds, blueberries, diced apples or bananas, or any combination of above.
Add:
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt.
Mix ingredients until all are moistened. Dough will be quite thick.
Line a regular-size muffin pan with muffin papers, and fill muffin cups 3/4 to 7/8 full. Bake 400 degrees Fahrenheit, about 22 minutes. Cool on baking rack. Makes 12 regular size muffins.
Yummy bran muffins ready to eat
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