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Honey-Oat-Bran Muffins for My Honey

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August 26, 2010
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Honey-Oat-Bran Muffins for My Honey
  • Makes 16 muffins
Author Notes

The last time my husband was out of town on business, he asked me if I would make his favorite bran muffins. (See "What I Do for Love" Bran Muffins : http://www.food52.com/recipes...) I was making them every week during the winter, and while they are delicious, they also make a huge mess with many bowls to clean. I adapted that recipe from Cook's Illustrated, and I swear those people must have a million elves to clean up after them. I don't. So I decided to play around with the recipe a little to see if I could make really good muffins with less clean-up. There are still a lot of ingredients--get everything out ahead of time to make life easy--and clean-up was much better. This is a great snack to pack in a lunch box for dessert or a pick-me-up during the day. —drbabs

What You'll Need
Ingredients
  • 6 tablespoons butter, room temperature
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons mild honey
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups plain whole milk yogurt (not greek)
  • 2 cups All Bran Cereal
  • 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tablespoon Dutch-process unsweetened cocoa
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon wheat germ
  • 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
  • 1 cup golden raisins
  • 1 cup toasted walnuts (or other nut as preferred), optional (I toasted pumpkin seeds and sprinkled them over the tops of the muffins.)
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin pans with paper liners. In a 2-cup glass measuring cup, melt butter in microwave by heating it on the lowest setting for about a minute, just till melted. Set aside to cool.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs till well-combined. Add sugar, honey, vanilla and whisk to combine. Whisk in butter and then yogurt. (You can spoon it into the same measuring cup you used to melt the butter.) Stir in All Bran cereal, and set aside while you prepare dry ingredients. (You want the cereal to soften as it absorbs the liquid. This can take 5-10 minutes.)
  3. In a large bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cocoa, wheat germ and oatmeal. Toast nuts if desired. (Place on a cookie sheet in the pre-heating oven till lightly toasted.)
  4. When cereal has softened, add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and gently fold with rubber spatula until batter is combined and evenly moistened. Gently fold raisins, nuts and orange juice into batter.
  5. Using a 1/3 cup measure, drop batter into muffin cups forming soft mounds. Don't level surface. Bake 16-20 minutes, until muffins are dark golden, and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few crumbs attached.
  6. These freeze well and can be reheated in the microwave or toaster oven.
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10 Reviews

Jacqueline M.
Jacqueline M. June 23, 2013
Made these for Sunday breakfast - scrumptious! I only had Greek yogurt, so just added a bit of liquid in place of a half cup of the yogurt. I also used bran, rather than cereal, and let it moisten with the liquid.
 
drbabs
drbabs June 24, 2013
I'm so glad you liked them! They are a family favorite. Thanks for letting me know.
 
JoanG
JoanG September 29, 2010
I tired the recipe with SuperBran cereal and used cherry juice instead of organe juice since I didn't hvae any. I am enjoying one of the muffins right now!
 
drbabs
drbabs October 4, 2010
I'm so happy you liked them! I'll have to try SuperBran cereal--did you get it at a health food store?
 
JoanG
JoanG September 25, 2010
I fjust ound a good bran cereal at my coop that has wheat and oatbran and is totally healthy. I'lll try it in your recipe and post a reprot!
 
drbabs
drbabs September 25, 2010
That's great! If it's not really dense and twiggy like All Bran, you may not need to soak it as long.
 
JoanG
JoanG September 25, 2010
These sound wonderful. I guess I'll have to buy some ALl Bran or I wonder if there is a natural organic version of an ALl Bran cereal?
 
drbabs
drbabs September 25, 2010
If you can find it, please let me know. The All Bran cereal gives the muffins a great flavor and texture, but the cereal is not the healthiest!
 
monkeymom
monkeymom August 26, 2010
Your honey is a very lucky guy!
 
drbabs
drbabs August 27, 2010
Thanks!!