Oven Ready Bran Muffins with Walnuts and Dates

Name: Oven Ready Bran Muffins with Walnuts and Dates
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking soda; 118 milliliters butter , softened; 473 milliliters buttermilk; 24 servings Chopped dates (use more or less as needed); 2 eggs, beaten; 24 servings Optional: Quick icing, see note; 237 milliliters brown sugar (I used a mixture of light and dark); 1 teaspoon salt; 591 milliliters unbleached white flour; 710 milliliters unprocessed wheat bran (Hodgson Mill); 2 teaspoons s of vanilla extract; 24 servings Toasted and chopped walnuts (use more or less as needed); 237 milliliters boiling water

You can never have too many morn meal recipes, so give Oven Ready Bran Muffins with Walnuts and Dates a try. This recipe makes 24 servings with 548 calories, 9g of protein, and 30g of fat each. This recipe covers 16% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up brown sugar, butter, of vanillan extract, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 25 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. and line as many muffin cups as needed with paper liners. The full batch makes about 2

Equipment you will use

Muffin Liners

Oven

Combine 1 cup of the bran and 1 cup of the boiling water.In a separate bowl blend sugar and butter (I used a handheld mixer for this and creamed the two). Beat in vanilla extract.In another bowl or on a sheet of foil, combine the flour, baking soda and salt.

Ingredients you will need

Vanilla Extract

Baking Soda

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Water

Bran

Salt

Equipment you will use

Blender

Bowl

Aluminum Foil

Combine the moistened bran with beaten eggs, the remaining 2 cups of bran and buttermilk, then stir it all into the creamed sugar/butter mixture. With a large mixing spoon, stir in the flour mixture.

Ingredients you will need

Buttermilk

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Bran

Egg

Place in the refrigerator for future use, or bake at once.To bake, divide evenly among muffins pans or stir the batter before baking and use however much you need. At this point, you can also stir in dates and walnuts.Fill the muffin pans almost to the top and bake for 15 minutes.

Ingredients you will need

Walnuts