[donotprint] We’re trying to eat a little healthier around here and today I baked my favorite bran muffins. It’s been awhile since I last baked these lovely muffins but after taking one bite I was instantly reminded why I love them so much. Each muffin is full of healthy goodness without compromising texture or flavor. Filled with oat bran, whole wheat flour, ground flax seed, carrots, raisins, nuts, and apple sauce, these muffins are not only good for you, kids love them! Enjoy! [/donotprint]
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!
I’m going to try to make this as bread and adding banana…any tips on conversion for that?
I made these as muffins already and they were quite good!
Ella,
Here is a great link to a conversion chart for baked goods. You can use their measurements to convert into grams. Hope this helps.
http://allrecipes.com/HowTo/Cup-to-Gram-Conversions/Detail.aspx
These muffins look delicious. I would love to make them but I’m English so I wondering what your measurements equate to in grams? We don’t use cups over here! Hope it’s not too much trouble…
Followed my way to your blog from The Paskins blog – and I will be making these muffins for breakfast tomorrow!!
Great pictures! I want to try these right now! Thanks for sharing!
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.
hey, just stumbled upon this site. These sound pretty healthy! Have you ever tried using honey to sub for the sugar?
Alice these are incredible, I love the healthy kick to them!
I am always looking for new bran muffins recipes. These look fluffy and moist, I can’t wait to try them!
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.
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!
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 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!
Oh brother! After all that boring Hunger stuff, now you give us BRAN muffins?
Ugh!
Mich, I can’t speak for this recipe specifically, but I always freeze bran muffins (so I won’t eat them all at once!).
I love bran muffins but I don’t have a favorite recipe – I’ll have to try this one! (No nuts for me, thanks.)
Have you ever tried freezing these muffins?
They sound incredible!
These sound completely unbelievable. I cannot wait to try them. They are filled with healthy ingredients but they have to taste wonderful as well.
My kind of muffin! I love all of the whole grains in there. Yum!
Yummy this muffins looks so pretty I wanna try it
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!
These look phenomenal! They look very moist, too – I love the applesauce in them!
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
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…
I want to bake up a batch right now. I love bran muffins and these look incredible!