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.

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.

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.

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.

CARROT GINGER BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Boil juice over high heat until it becomes syrupy. Set aside and let cool.
• In a large bowl, whisk together wheat bran, flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and dried ginger.
• In a separate bowl, combine reduced juice, egg, yogurt, carrot, fresh ginger, and molasses. Combine mixtures and then fold in pumpkin seeds.
• Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin cups. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched. Cool on a wire rack.