7 Week Refrigerator Bran Muffins Food

REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a muffin pan or line with muffin cups.
• Combine bran flakes and bran cereal in a heat-proof bowl. Cover with boiling water; stir and let sit until softened.
• Beat sugar, shortening, and eggs together in a very large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture. Stir in softened bran; mix until evenly incorporated.
• Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 15 minutes.

REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs, buttermilk, oil and sugar. Stir in cereal and raisins. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture. Stir just until all ingredients are moistened. If desired, store batter, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 7 days. To bake, gently stir batter; fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. (All of the batter does not need to be baked at once.)

SIX WEEK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, add boiling water to the first 6 cups of bran cereal, cool.
• Cream shortening or margarine, sugar, eggs, and buttermilk together. Add to bran mixture. Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt. Fold in the 12 cups of bran cereal. Stir only until moistened.
• Bake in a preheated 425 degree F (220 degree C) oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

SIX WEEK REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS WITH NATURAL BRAN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 F and prepare muffin pans.
• Measure the wheat bran into a large bowl and cover with boiling water. Stir and let sit.
• In another bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Whisk in the molasses and buttermilk.
• Add flour mixture and stir gently until almost combined. Stir in wheat bran mixture and mix gently just until incorporated.
• Scoop into prepared muffin cups and bake at 425 F for 5 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375 F and bake for another 18-20 minutes, until muffin tops spring back lightly when touched.
• Cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove to a cooling rack.

SIX-WEEK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until well combines. Stir in buttermilk, cereal, flour, oil, baking soda and salt; mix well. Refrigerate at least 6 hours before using. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Batter may be stored, covered, in the refrigerator for up to 6 weeks.

MAKE-AHEAD REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl with a tight fitting lid (needed if you aren't baking the muffin batter right away), add the wheat bran flakes or wheat bran and the bran buds or all-bran.
• Pour the boiling water over the top, and mix well. Stir every couple of minutes while the mixture cools to room temperature. The mixture will be thick and sticky; it's ok if there are a few dry patches.
• After the mixture cools to warm room temperature, add the buttermilk, melted butter, applesauce, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Mix well.
• Add the flour, baking soda and salt. Stir until ingredients are combined.
• The batter can be baked right away or stored in the refrigerator, covered well, for up to a month to bake as needed. Give the batter a good stir before using if it has been refrigerated.
• To bake, scoop the batter into greased or lined muffin tins, filling 3/4 full. Bake at 375 degrees (350 degrees for dark coated muffin tins) for about 14-16 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.

7 WEEK REFRIGERATOR BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Soak 2 cups of bran flakes in hot water and cool. Cream shortening and sugar together. Add eggs, buttermilk and soaked bran flakes to creamed mixture. Sift dry ingredients and add with the 4 cups additional bran flakes to moist mixture. Mix until moist. Do not over mix.
• Keeps 7 weeks in refrigerator.
• Grease muffin tins or use paper muffin cups. When putting into tins to bake, you can add raisins or blueberries. Fill muffin tins 3/4 . Bake at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. These are so handy to have on hand for breakfast muffins -- .

REFRIGERATOR APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl combine all bran cereal and buttermilk; let stand 5 minutes till cereal is softened.
• Meanwhile in another large bowl combine both flours, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and raisins and mix well.
• To the cereal and buttermilk mixture add the applesauce, oil, and egg whites and blend well.
• Add this to the flour mixture all at once and stir till just moistened.
• You may bake this immediately or stored in tightly covered container and put in refrigerator for up to two weeks.
• When ready to bake, heat oven to 400 degrees; spray cupcake papers with nonstick cooking spray.
• Stir batter and fill about 3/4 full.
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 15-17 minutes till done.
• Serve warm.

REFRIGERATOR BUTTERMILK BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In very large bowl, combine bran and bran cereal.
• Add boiling water, stir to moisten and let stand 10 minutes. Add buttermilk.
• In another very large bowl, cream shortening with sugars.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• Add bran mixture to creamed mixture, stirring until blended.
• Mix together flour, soda and salt; add raisins.
• Add to bran mixture, stirring until evenly mixed.
• Cover tightly with foil and refrigerate at least 24 hours.
• To make muffins, spoon batter into muffin tins lined with paper baking cups, filling about 3/4 full.
• Bake in 375 oven for 20-25 minutes.
• Make as many muffins as you wish, then return remaining batter to refrigerator.
• Batter will thicken considerably, but don't stir it before spooning it out.
• Recipe makes about 5 dozen muffins; it may be halved successfully.
• Baked muffins freeze well.