Bran Muffins A La Brian Food

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.

BAKERY-STYLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Adust oven rack to lower middle position and heat oven to 375.
• Beat butter in large bowl of electric mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy, 1-2 minute.
• Add brown sugar, increase speed to medum-high, and beat until combined and fluffy, about 1 minute longer.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating thoroughly before adding the next.
• Beat in vanilla, molasses, and sour cream until thoroughly combined and creamy, about 1 minute longer.
• Reduce speed to low and beat in buttermilk and half the flour mixture until combined, about 1 minute longer.
• Beat in remaining flour mixture unil incorporated and slightly curdled looking, about 1 minute longer, scraping sides of bowl as necessary.
• Stir in bran and raisins.
• Spray a twelve mold muffins tin (each mold measuring 1/2 cup) or a six mold muffin tin (each mold measuring one cup) with cooking spray.
• Divide batter evenly using ice cream scoop or spoon.
• Bake until a toothpick inserted into center withdraws cleanly of with a few moist particles adhering to it, about 25 minute Set on wire rack to cool slightly, about 5 minute Remove muffins from tin and serve warm.
• Makes 12 small muffins or 6 jumbo muffins.

BRAN MUFFINS A LA BRIAN

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin tin, or line with paper muffin liners. In a small bowl, mix together the wheat bran and buttermilk. Set aside to soak until thickened, about 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to blend together the brown sugar, vegetable oil, egg and molasses. Stir in the bran mixture. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the batter until just moistened. Mix in raisins. Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling 3/4 full.
• Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until the tops spring back when lightly pressed.

VEGAN WHEAT BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line 12 muffin tins with paper liners.
• In large bowl, stir together flour, bran, sugar, baking soda, and salt.
• Stir remaining ingredients till gently mixed.
• Spoon into muffin cups and bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
• Let cool completely.

VEGAN BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and spray a muffin tray with non-stick spray.
• Sift all purpose flour into a mixing bowl and add wheat bran, light brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix together.
• Prepare your flax egg by adding 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed meal to a bowl with 3 tablespoons of hot water and letting it sit for a minute to become gloopy.
• Add the flax egg, soy milk, oil, vinegar and vanilla extract to the mixing bowl and mix into a batter. Don't overmix.
• Add the raisins and stir them in.
• Divide the batter evenly between the muffin partitions of your prepared muffin tray.
• Add chopped walnuts to the tops of the muffins.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the muffins comes out clean.
• Let the muffins cool in the tray for a few minutes before transferring them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

WORLD'S BEST BRAN MUFFIN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• In a food processor, finely blend half the cereal until it resembles fine crumbs. Add raisins and blend until finely chopped. Transfer mixture to a bowl with remaining cereal, flour, whole-wheat flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
• In a separate bowl, combine butter, eggs, yogurt, molasses and vanilla. Stir together wet and dry ingredients until just combined. Do not over mix.
• Line muffin tin with baking cups; fill each just more than halfway. Sprinkle generously with raw sugar crystals, if desired.
• Bake until muffins spring back when touched, 15 to 18 min. Remove from the tin and allow to cool slightly.