Lime And Ginger Bran Muffins Recipes

LIME AND FRESH GINGER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Line 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners.
• Preheat oven to 375°.
• In a food processor, process sugar, ginger, and lime zest until finely chopped and mixture resembles wet sand.
• In a big bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In another bowl, whisk the ginger mixture, eggs, buttermilk, and oil together until blended.
• Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just blended.
• Divide batter equally among muffin cups.
• Bake for 18-22 minutes or until tops are light golden brown and a pick comes out clean.
• Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 3 minutes, then transfer to rack to cool while you make the icing.
• In a small bowl, combine the powdered sugar, lime zest, and lime juice; stir until smooth.
• Spoon over the tops of warm muffins and let cool.

GINGERBREAD BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners. Spread the wheat bran evenly on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until fragrant and toasted, about 8 minutes. Remove the bran from the oven and increase the heat to 450 degrees.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the toasted bran, graham flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and cloves. In a large bowl, whisk together the molasses, vegetable oil, dark brown sugar and eggs. Stir in the buttermilk, raisins and ginger.
• Gently stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, just until everything is evenly moistened. Don't overdo it.
• Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cups. Transfer to the oven and immediately reduce the temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake until the tops are nice and puffed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with moist crumbs attached, 22 to 25 minutes. Transfer the muffins to a rack to cool completely.

TRIPLE-GINGER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 375 degrees and line a standard muffin tin with paper liners.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the sugar, butter, eggs, milk, molasses and grated ginger, and whisk until smooth.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined. (Be careful not to overmix! The batter will be slightly lumpy.) Stir in 3/4 cup crystallized ginger, reserving the remaining 3 tablespoons for the topping.
• Using an ice cream scoop or a large spoon, divide the batter between the 12 muffin cups. Sprinkle the reserved crystallized ginger onto the tops of the muffins, and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean and the muffins spring back when lightly pressed. Cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then carefully transfer muffins to a cooling rack and cool completely.

BRAN-GINGERUM MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly coat muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper muffin liners.
• In a medium bowl, beat together oil, applesauce, milk, yogurt, egg, strawberry jam, and vanilla extract.
• In a food processor, grind bran flake cereal to a fine powder; this should make about 1 1/4 cups flour. Transfer to a large bowl, and stir together with whole wheat flour, wheat bran, buckwheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, brown sugar, ground ginger, pumpkin pie spice, allspice, and ground nutmeg. Pour in applesauce mixture, and mix thoroughly. Spoon mixture into prepared muffin cups, filling until level with the top of the muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven 26 to 30 minutes, or until muffins test done with a toothpick. Remove muffins from pan, and cool on wire racks.

MOLASSES BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
• In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt.
• In a separate medium bowl, mix skim milk, molasses, egg, and vegetable oil. Mix in the bran cereal. Thoroughly stir in the flour mixture. Transfer to the prepared muffin pan.
• Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.

LIME MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first four ingredients. In another bowl, beat the eggs, milk, oil, lime juice and zest. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. , Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 400° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack.

LIME & GINGER BARS

Steps:

• Line a 18 x 23 cm roasting tin with foil, then lightly grease. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and put a baking sheet in to heat up. Crush the biscuits until very fine.
• Mix the crumbs and butter together well, then press into the bottom of the tin, squashing down firmly. Slide tin onto the baking sheet and bake for 20 mins until very dark golden all over.
• Meanwhile, make the filling. Stir the flour and sugar together, make a well in the middle, then work in the eggs and yolk until smooth. Mix in the lime zest and juice. Pour the filling onto the hot base, return to the oven and turn the heat down to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Bake for 20 mins or until set in the middle. Cool on a wire rack, then cut into bars.

GINGER & LEMON MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°. In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in ginger and lemon zest. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. In a small bowl, mix topping ingredients; sprinkle over muffins. Bake 14-16 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

LIME AND GINGER BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Combine ginger, 2 tbsp of lime & 1/4 of sugar in a small pot.
• Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes or until sugar has dissolved & mixture is hot.
• Remove from heat and cool.
• Stir in lime zest (wait until it's cool, or else the zest will cook and you will lose the bright green colour).
• Whisk butter with remaining 1/2 cup sugar until smooth.
• Whisk in eggs and buttermilk until blended.
• Combine bran, flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl.
• Stir in buttermilk mixture - Do not overmix.
• Spoon batter into 12 large well-greased or paper-lined muffin cups.
• Fill to about 3/4 full.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• GLAZE: Prepare glaze by combining sugar, water and lime juice in a small pot.
• Bring to a boil over high heat and boil for 1 minute.
• Prick hot muffins several times with a toothpick or skewer and brush muffin with glaze.
• Cool in pan on a rack.