Best 7 Natural Bran Muffins Recipes

BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Combine the cereal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon into a large bowl and whisk together. Set aside.
• In a separate bowl whisk together the buttermilk, oil, egg, and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir to blend well. Cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or up to 12 hours. The batter will become very thick.
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Line your muffin tin with 10 paper liners and set aside.
• Divide the batter evenly among the liners, filling them completely. Sprinkle with the turbinado sugar.
• Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Allow the muffins to cool in tin for 2 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

CLASSIC BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
• Mix together wheat bran and buttermilk; let stand for 10 minutes.
• Beat together oil, egg, sugar and vanilla and add to buttermilk/bran mixture. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir flour mixture into buttermilk mixture, until just blended. Fold in raisins and spoon batter into prepared muffin tins.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool and enjoy!

BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 400°F. Place a paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or spray just the bottoms of the cups with cooking spray.
• Place cereal in a resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal the bag. Roll over cereal with a rolling pin or bottle, or press with bottom of small saucepan, to crush cereal into fine crumbs.
• In a medium bowl, stir the crushed cereal, milk, raisins and vanilla until well mixed. Let stand about 5 minutes or until cereal has softened. Beat in the oil and egg with a fork.
• In another medium bowl, stir the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon until well mixed. Stir flour mixture into cereal mixture just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Spoon the batter into the cups, dividing batter evenly.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If muffins were baked in paper baking cups, immediately remove from pan to a cooling rack. If muffins were baked in a sprayed pan, leave in pan about 5 minutes, then remove from pan to a cooling rack. Serve warm if desired.

BRAN MUFFINS WITH APPLESAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
• Mix together brown sugar, applesauce, canola oil, egg, vanilla extract, and salt in a large bowl.
• Mix flour, bran, flax, baking soda, and baking powder in a separate bowl. Add bran mixture to applesauce mixture. Add milk and stir until thoroughly combined. Pour batter into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 11 to 13 minutes.

NATURAL BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Prepare non-stick muffin tin by spraying with cooking spray.
• Mix the oat bran and boiling water in a large bowl, set aside.
• In a small bowl, combine egg whites, sugar, buttermilk, oil and fruit.
• Add egg white mixture to oat bran and mix until blended.
• Combine flours, baking soda and cinnamon.
• Add dry ingredients to oat bran, stirring just until blended.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin tin.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes.
• All of the muffins can be cooked at one time and frozen for later use or the batter keeps for several weeks when stored covered in the refrigerator.

DEEP DARK OLD RECIPE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 18 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners. Whisk the bran, flour, salt, and baking soda in a mixing bowl; set aside.
• Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl. Whisk in the buttermilk, sugar, molasses, and melted shortening until smooth. Stir in the bran mixture along with the raisins until no dry lumps remain. Pour into the prepared muffin tins, filling them no more than 2/3 full.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

BUTTERMILK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and preheat to 350°.
• Lightly spray twelve 2 1/4 x 1 1/2-inch nonstick muffin cups with oil.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the bran, flours, baking soda, and salt until well combined. Set aside.
• In another medium bowl, using a handheld eletric mixer set at high speed, beat the buttermilk, sugar, applesauce, egg, oil and vanilla until frothy, about two minutes. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and pour in the buttermilk mixture. Using a spoon, stir just until combined. Do not overmix.
• Divide the batter equally among the prepared muffin cups. Bake unti the tops spring back when pressed gently in the center, about 20 minutes. Do not overbake. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing from the cups. Serve warm or cool completely on the rack.