Homemade Bran Muffins are healthy, delicious, and whip blueberry bran muffins in under 30 minutes! Make them your own with your favorite mix ins.
Homemade Bran Muffins are healthy, delicious, and whip up in under 20 minutes! Bran Muffins make a perfect grab-and-go breakfast. Round it out with a plate of scrambled eggs and a kale smoothie. These best Bran Muffins get their goodness from bran cereal. They are not only easy to make, but they store extremely well. Make an extra batch and keep them in the freezer for an easy breakfast or afternoon snack.
Take these up a notch by mixing in some nuts or even a handful or two of chocolate chips! But don’t feel like you need to jazz these up, even as is, this Bran Muffin recipe is crazy delicious. In a medium bowl, mix together wheat bran and buttermilk and let stand for 10 minutes. In another bowl, beat together oil, egg, sugar and vanilla. Add to the bran and buttermilk mixture and stir until combined. In a third bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir this into the wet mixture and mix until just blended.
16-18 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Enjoy plain, with some butter, or even Honey Butter! Fill muffin cups halfway and then add in a small dollop of cream cheese or jam before remaining batter for filled muffins. Sprinkle some sugar or cinnamon sugar on the top of your muffins before baking! It’s also helpful of course to make sure all of your other dry ingredients like your cinnamon and brown sugar are distributed well. Have you ever bitten into a baked good and found a small patch of dry flour? That is one thing that can happen when you try to combine everything at once.
You will also have to stir harder to make sure you combine everything well if you are using one bowl, which could lead to overmixing. This could then lead to muffins that are more dense and dry because the gluten in the flour has become overdeveloped. So that extra bowl for mixing can really make a big difference! Make your own buttermilk: Follow one of these easy steps in our How To Make Buttermilk tutorial that are sure to include ingredients you already have on hand. Let muffins cool completely, then STORE in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. FREEZE in a ziploc bag squeezing out as much excess air as possible and store for up to 3 months.
Defrost at room temperature for about an hour or warm in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Lightly grease a muffin tray or line with muffin liners. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Pin it now to remember it later! Or tweet it to the world.