Whole Wheat Apple Cider Bran Mini Muffins Recipes

APPLE CIDER MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 8 muffin cups with paper liners.
• Cream butter, shortening, and sugar in a stand mixer at medium-high speed. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down sides of the bowl as necessary.
• Whisk together flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, and nutmeg in a separate bowl. Turn the stand mixer on low and alternate adding in flour mixture and cider, starting with flour and ending with cider. Mix well and remove from stand. Stir in apples with a wooden spoon.
• Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups, using about 2 generous tablespoons for each muffin cup.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Let cool before serving.

V'S APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Combine bran flakes cereal, whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Whisk applesauce, sugar, vegetable oil, and egg together in a separate bowl; stir into flour mixture until just combined. Fill muffin cups about 2/3-full with batter.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes on a wire rack; serve warm.

WHOLE WHEAT APPLE BRAN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Mix dry ingredients together.
• Add wet and mix just until blended
• Pour into a 12 muffin pan.
• Bake for 19 minutes at 425 degrees
• Let sit in the oven for 2 minutes before removing.

APPLE BRAN WHOLE WHEAT MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Mix the cereal, buttermilk, oil, eggs and sugar in a medium bowl.
• Add the grated apple and mix together. (If using raisins and/or chopped nuts, add them at this time.) Let the apple mixture sit while you measure the dry ingredients.
• In a large bowl measure the flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Mix together with a wire whisk.
• Pour the apple mixture into the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon just until all the dry ingredients are moistened. Mixture will be lumpy.
• Prepare muffin tins with spray release and fill muffin cups a little more than half full.
• Bake regular size muffins about 15 to 18 minutes and mini or "gem" muffins about 13 minutes. Let muffins sit in pans for 2 to 3 minutes before gently turning out onto a baking rack to cool.
• These freeze very well.