Everything Bran Muffins
Makes 15-18 muffins
Adapted from Allrecipes.com
Ingredients
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup ground flax seed
3/4 cup oat bran
1 cup brown sugar
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3/4 cup skim milk
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup apple sauce
2 cups shredded carrots
1/2 cup raisins
1 cup chopped walnuts, pecans, or almonds
*optional – substitute 1 cup of shredded carrots for shredded zucchini
Directions:
Preheat over to 350 degrees. In a medium-large mixing bowl combine flours, oat bran, ground flax seed, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and brown sugar. Add eggs, milk, vanilla, and apple sauce to the flour mixture stirring until well combined. Stir in shredded carrots/zucchini, raisins, and chopped walnuts. Scoop batter into prepared (sprayed with non-stick spray) muffin tins until 3/4 full. Bake for 20 minutes or until done. Allow to cool for 10 minutes inside tin before removing. Enjoy!
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I want to bake up a batch right now. I love bran muffins and these look incredible!
Mmmm! One question–can I use wheat bran instead of oat bran? I would love to make these tonight but I only have wheat bran on hand…
Amanda: I don’t see why you couldn’t (although I never have). I’ve been making these muffins for years and they are quite forgiving. Hope this helps!
Alice
These look phenomenal! They look very moist, too – I love the applesauce in them!
Alice, these look incredible. I’m a bran muffin fanatic and blogged a more basic recipe over on m blog “Basic Bran Muffins”, but I’m definitely curious to give your recipe w/ more bells and whistles (+ applesauce mmm!) a whirl!
Yummy this muffins looks so pretty I wanna try it
My kind of muffin! I love all of the whole grains in there. Yum!
These sound completely unbelievable. I cannot wait to try them. They are filled with healthy ingredients but they have to taste wonderful as well.
Have you ever tried freezing these muffins?
They sound incredible!
I love bran muffins but I don’t have a favorite recipe – I’ll have to try this one! (No nuts for me, thanks.)
Mich, I can’t speak for this recipe specifically, but I always freeze bran muffins (so I won’t eat them all at once!).
Oh brother! After all that boring Hunger stuff, now you give us BRAN muffins?
Ugh!
These sound fab! I have everything on hand except applesauce (which I never have, and would rather not buy for half a cup). Any thoughts on a sub? Mybe OJ? Thanks!
Hi Mich,
Yes you can freeze them. I’ve frozen them and just reheated them in the microwave.
Faye.
I would sub. 2 tablespoons of oil for the apple sauce and add 1 apple chopped up. If you don’t have an apple, no worries.
These look great! I’ve been trying to keep healthy muffins in the freezer so I can grab and go in the morning (in lieu of the dreaded, processed Nutri-Grain bar)! I’ll make these next!
I just took these out of the oven and they taste great. However, I had to use wheat bran in place of the oat bran. Alice’s look better than mine. Also I wish I would have used the finer grate holes to grate my carrots with- just for appearance purposes though. Thanks for the healthy recipe.
I am always looking for new bran muffins recipes. These look fluffy and moist, I can’t wait to try them!
Alice these are incredible, I love the healthy kick to them!
hey, just stumbled upon this site. These sound pretty healthy! Have you ever tried using honey to sub for the sugar?
I made these last night. Only changes I made were omitting the raisins, and using white whole wheat flour instead of AP/whole wheat blend. They’re FABULOUS. Made 18 full-size muffins for me.
Great pictures! I want to try these right now! Thanks for sharing!
Followed my way to your blog from The Paskins blog – and I will be making these muffins for breakfast tomorrow!!