Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Bran muffins

When I was carrying Savannah I had gestational diabetes. Nothing I ate for breakfast kept my sugars down. One day my Mother-in-law made these and my sugars stayed down. For the next 3 mos I ate two of these, with a cup of milk blended with 3 strawberries, a handful of blueberries, some protein powder, and a tsp of splenda for breakfast. I also lost weight on this even though I was pregnant. They are really quite good. The best part is the recipe says the dough keeps well in your fridge for 6 weeks (although I have never tried that long). They are not terribly sweet just very filling and good.

Combine:
1 cup oil
1 cup sugar

add:
4 eggs beaten
1 quart low fat buttermilk

boil:
2 cups water
then add:
4 cups whole bran cereal (all-bran)
let sit 5 min

then add:
2 cups 40% bran flakes (I buy the cheap wal-mart bran flakes)
1 Tbsp salt
5 tsp baking soda
3 cups flour
2 cups whole wheat flour (if you want to do all whole wheat only do about 4 3/4 total since wheat is "thirstier")

You can add raisins right before cooking although I usually don't.
15 to 20 minutes 400 degrees (mine always take the 20).
This recipe makes 60.

3 comments:

  1. Would you ever just bake all 60 one day and then freeze the muffins to have at the ready whenever you wanted to grab and nuke one fast?

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  2. I always nuke them, they taste better that way. Nothing like fresh out of the oven though. For me freezer space is always at a premium.

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  3. I have a recipe very similar to this that I LOVE, I'm glad you shared! I can't have sugar however, b/c it can cause migraines for me, so I substitute the honey for the sugar and they are just as good! Although I still like to put butter and honey on when I eat them. (I have another muffin recipe I use honey in and I LOVE it too!)

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