Daybreak Muffins

February 7, 2010 in Recipes by Annacia

These muffins are unbelievably good still hot from the oven and the butter melting beautifully. You won’t be unhappy with the fully cooled muffins either. These are made with natural wheat bran and are much lower in fat and sugar that the “bran cakes” sold at the fast food and donut places. These muffins are actually good for you as well as being just plain delicious.

MAKES: 18 muffins
INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 1/2 cups natural wheat bran (not cereal)
  • 1 cup unbleached flour
  • 1 cup carrot, grated
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon mace
  • 1/4 teaspoon ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup plain low fat yogurt
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1/4 cup canola oil or any vegetable oil
  • 1 egg

    • DIRECTIONS:

    1. Preheat oven to 375F and grease the cups of the muffin pans.
    2. Combine bran, flour, carrots, brown sugar, raisins, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, mace, ginger and salt in a large bowl.
    3. Whisk yogurt, honey, oil and egg in a separate bowl. Add these ingredients to flour mixture. Stir well to combine, batter will be thick.
    4. Place batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven 18 – 22 mins or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

    NOTE:

  • This recipe can also be made into bars. Just put the batter into a 9” x 13” baking pan that is greased or lined with parchment paper. Bake 20 – 25 mins.
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