Bran And Currant Muffins Recipes

BRAN AND CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly oil nine standard-size muffin cups, or line them with paper liners.
• Combine wheat bran, prune juice, yogurt, currants, molasses, oil, egg, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Let stand for 10 minutes.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Stir dry ingredients into the bran mixture just until dry ingredients are moistened. Do not overmix.
• Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling each about three-quarters full. Bake in the center of the oven for 20 minutes.
• Turn muffins out of the pan, and let them cool on a rack.

CARROT-CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 14 cups of two 12-cup muffin tins with baking cups, and lightly coat each with cooking spray.
• Whisk together flours, sugar, baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and the cinnamon in a large bowl. Whisk together yogurt, oil, eggs, and egg whites in a medium bowl. Fold yogurt mixture into flour mixture, then gently fold in carrots and currants until combined.
• Spoon batter into baking cups until each is three-quarters full. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of each comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Transfer pans to wire racks, and let cool for 10 minutes. Turn out muffins onto racks, and let cool completely.

BRAN AND CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400. Lightly oil nine standard size muffin cups, or line them with paper liners.
• Combine wheat bran, prune juice, yogurt, currants, molasses, oil, egg, and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Let stand for 10 minutes.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Stir dry ingredients into the bran mixture just until dry ingredients are moistened. DO NOT OVERMIX.
• Spoon batter into muffin cup, filling each about 3/4 full. Bake in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes.
• Turn muffins out of pan, and let them cool on a rack.
• Per serving: 187 calories, 7 g. fat, 24 mg. cholesterol, 26 g carbohydrate, 200 mg. sodium, 7 g protein, 6 g. dietary fibre.

BRAN-CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Place bran cereal in a large mixing bowl. Pour in buttermilk, water and oil - stir well and let sit for a few minutes for the bran to soften.
• Mix in eggs and brown sugar.
• Add dry ingredients all at once, stir in just enough to combine.
• Fold in currants.
• This will make about 30 muffins, so grease as many muffin tins as you need and fill the cups 2/3 full.
• Bake at 375 for about 17-20 minutes (depending on how your oven behaves).
• Store remaining batter in a tightly-covered container in the refrigerator for up to 6 weeks.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
• Add both eggs and orange peel, or flower water and beat well.
• Sieve the flour, baking powder and salt into the creamed mixture and lightly blend.
• Fold in the red currants.
• Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full and bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done.
• Cool for 5 minutes before placing on wire rack.
• Dust with confectioners' (icing) sugar once completely cooled.

THE REAL BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix tog. the egg, milk and molasses.
• Combine all the dry ingredients.
• Mix these two mixes tog and add raisins at the end if you are including them.
• Do not over mix.
• Spoon into greased muffin tins and bake at 350 degF for 20 minutes.

OAT BRAN, CURRANT MAPLE MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In large mixing bowl combine bran, flour, baking powder & salt.
• In another bowl mix currants, milk, syrup, oil & egg.
• Combine all of the ingredients (wet & dry) and stir gently.
• There can be lumps in the batter.
• Grease a 12-muffin tin and fill each cup 3/4 full with batter.
• Bake 15-20 minutes.
• **Can be refrigerated/frozen in a tightly sealed container.

RED CURRANT MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and orange zest. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture just until blended. Fold in currants. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 375° for 20-25 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Serve warm.