September 10, 2021
Looking for delicious bran muffins? Make these! Bran, banana, butter, and more. Easy recipe (with no preamble 😜).
Bran-Banana Muffins Recipe
2 cups bran flakes cereal
1 ½ cups buttermilk
1 banana, mashed
½ cup melted butter
1 large egg
2/3 cup sugar (white, cane, coconut, brown, or a mixture; your choice)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 ¼ cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Prepare your baking pan: grease a 12-muffin tin
Measure out your ingredients ahead of time and have them ready.
Combine cereal and buttermilk, allow to sit for 10 minutes to soften cereal.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
To cereal mixture, add melted butter, banana, egg, vanilla, sugar, and mixed dry ingredients. That’s everything in the bowl now. And it will come together.
Stir until completely moistened, but don’t beat or overmix. Should be a thick batter.
Spoon into muffin tin, each cup about ¾ or more full. They don’t rise a whole lot.
Bake 5 minutes at 450, and then reduce heat to 350 without opening oven.
Continue to bake for 10 minutes.
Remove from oven. Run a butter knife around each muffin to loosen from the pan, and lift the muffin slightly to tilt it in the pan and allow the bottom to cool without sticking to the pan.
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So this is just you and me, sitting on the porch, sharing a snack. And maybe wondering when our bran muffins are going to take effect. 😳
Yes, these have some sugar. If you’re after the bran and not the muffin, by all means pour that cereal in a bowl, add some milk, and eat up.
Muffins are usually a treat, and this recipe has never disappointed.
I took a lot of advice from different cooks and made the muffins I dreamed of. Don’t stir too much, never use a mixer. Cook fast at first, then slow. Remember that muffins are usually denser and heavier than cupcakes. Serve them warm and everyone will be thrilled. Freeze them individually, by placing them on a parchment-paper-lined cookie sheet, not touching. Then drop the frozen muffins into a freezer bag for long-term freezing, to use as you need them.
I hope this turns out to satisfy your muffin craving!
Bran Muffin variations
Everybody has their favorites, and I hope this becomes one of yours.
I’m planning to try some variations just for fun — maybe add cinnamon or pineapple. I think they would be amazing with cream cheese frosting. For now, I want a supply of these in the freezer all the time to satisfy my sweet tooth on a regular basis. 
I have tried the lemon-juice-in-milk substitute for buttermilk with great results. I also have the canned dry buttermilk I want to experiment with.
It’s so much neater to use paper muffin cups, but I really like the crusty outside you get from cooking the batter right in the pan. And these have p-l-e-n-t-y of butter, so they don’t really stick in the pan. I still sprayed the pan anyway, just to be sure.
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Smoothies are great, especially in the summertime. They make a healthy and filling lunch.
Freeze that extra little bit you don’t drink into cubes to add to your next smoothie.
Muffins are amazing. Better than cupcakes to me. Heartier, more interesting, more filling, and just better ingredients. Make these and see if you agree.
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