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Ingredients
- 1 cup unprocessed wheat bran
- 1 cup buttermilk (shaken)
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed
- 2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
- 6 tablespoons unsulphured molasses
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup large-diced bananas
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
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.
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By pestee43
Florida
on August 08, 2011
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Very good bran muffins. Tastes like a good banana bread. The molasses wasn't too powerful at all in my opinion. Very moist.
By sanchab
on July 28, 2011
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These are AMAZING!!! Moist, full of flavor and easy to make. I love Ina's recipes.... always pleased!! I did use just molasses and didn't think it was too much.. YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!!
By workingmombakes
southern california
on June 22, 2011
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Wonderful, tender, packed with flavor and easy. I subbed oat bran for wheat bran and used only 3T molasses because that's all I had. Added 1 T honey. Also subbed 2 heaping T Splenda brown sugar instead of white sugar. It came out perfectly.
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