Low Fat Banana Bran Flake Muffins Recipes

HEALTHY BANANA BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease or paper line muffin cups (i sprayed).
• Combine cereal, bananas, milk, egg and oil in bowl; mix well. Let stand 5 minutes; stir to break up cereal.
• Combine flour, sugar (sweetner), baking powder, baking soda, spices and nuts (if using) in separate bowl.
• Add flour mixture all at once to cereal mixture, stirring just until moistened.
• Divide evenly among prepared muffin cups, which comes to about a heaping tablespoon per muffin.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Serve warm (room temp is OK too).

INA'S CHUNKY LOW FAT BANANA BRAN MUFFINS (SMALL BATCH)

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350F degrees.
• Line 6 cup muffin tin with paper liners.
• In a large bowl, combine the bran and buttermilk and let sit for 5 minutes. Stir in the butter, brown sugar, egg, molasses, orange zest, vanilla and salt until well blended.
• In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda until well combined.
• Add the flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture and stir just until combined. Don't over mix it or your muffins will be tough! Gently fold in the bananas, raisins and walnuts with a rubber spatula.
• With an ice cream scoop or large spoon, evenly divide the batter amongst the six muffin cups, filling them till full.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Remove from the oven and place the muffin tin on a rack to cool. Let the muffins cool in the pans. When cool, gently remove them to a plate.

BANANA BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a muffin pan or line with paper muffin liners.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and brown sugar together until fluffy. Add bananas, milk, vanilla and eggs; mix well. Stir in flour, bran, baking powder, soda and salt; blend just until moistened. Stir in walnuts. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool in the cups for 5 minutes, then remove muffins and place on a wire rack to cool completely.

CHUNKY BANANA BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place paper liners into 1 (10 or 12-cup) muffin tin.
• Combine the bran and buttermilk and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment for about 5 minutes, until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, add the eggs, 1 at a time. Scrape the bowl and then add the molasses, orange zest, and vanilla. (The mixture will look curdled.) Add the bran/buttermilk mixture and combine.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the batter just until combined. Don't overmix it! Fold in the raisins, bananas and walnuts with a rubber spatula.
• With an ice cream scoop or large spoon, fill the muffin cups to the top and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.

LOW FAT BANANA BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a medium size bowl mix all dry ingredients together. In a separate medium size bowl mix together the wet ingredients (including bananas). Mix thoroughly and make sure bananas are well incorporated. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and heavily spray muffin pan even if you use papers cups. Mix both bowls together just until dry mix is wet. Scoop into medium size muffin pan and bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins spring back to the touch.

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.

SUPER YUMMY LOW FAT BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees f.
• In a large bowl mix together flour, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
• In another bowl mix together bran cereal, brown sugar and milk and let sit for 5 minute After you've let the cereal milk sugar mixture set
• add the applesauce and the egg, mix throughly.
• Mix the wet ingredients into dry, batter will be lumpy.
• Spoon into butter sprayed muffin pan.
• bake for 8 to 12 minute.

LOW-FAT BLUEBERRY BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or use paper muffin liners. Mix together wheat bran and milk, and let stand for 10 minutes.
• In a large bowl, mix together applesauce, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla. Beat in bran mixture. Sift together all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir into bran mixture until just blended. Fold in blueberries. Scoop into muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until tops spring back when lightly tapped.

BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 400°F. Place a paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or spray just the bottoms of the cups with cooking spray.
• Place cereal in a resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal the bag. Roll over cereal with a rolling pin or bottle, or press with bottom of small saucepan, to crush cereal into fine crumbs.
• In a medium bowl, stir the crushed cereal, milk, raisins and vanilla until well mixed. Let stand about 5 minutes or until cereal has softened. Beat in the oil and egg with a fork.
• In another medium bowl, stir the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon until well mixed. Stir flour mixture into cereal mixture just until flour is moistened (batter will be lumpy). Spoon the batter into the cups, dividing batter evenly.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If muffins were baked in paper baking cups, immediately remove from pan to a cooling rack. If muffins were baked in a sprayed pan, leave in pan about 5 minutes, then remove from pan to a cooling rack. Serve warm if desired.

BANANA APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, mix together flour, bran flakes, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• In a medium bowl, combine applesauce, banana and shredded apple.
• Add sugar and egg to wet ingredients.
• Add wet ingredients to flour mixture, stirring just until combined.
• Fill muffin tins and bake for about 25 minutes or until tests clean.

LOW FAT CARROT BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, cereal, raisins (you may add the raisins in with the wet ingredients if you prefer), sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, combine egg, milk, margarine, applesauce, carrot and orange rind.
• Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
• Spoon into sprayed or lightly greased muffin tin (for 12 muffins) - Do NOT use paper muffin liners.
• Bake for 20 minutes, or until tops are firm to the touch, or when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.