Molasses Bran Muffins
January 5, 2010
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super-healthy, super-delicious bran muffins with this recipe,
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Happy entertaining!
MOLASSES BRAN MUFFINS
Since this is a blog about party food, I don’t get to share a lot of my super-healthy recipes with you. However, this week I was faced with hosting a ladies brunch and, knowing that all those “get healthy” resolutions were fresh in everyone’s mind, I turned to an old favorite. A while back, I adapted this recipe from one on the back of the bag of bran in an effort to get more fiber into my diet, and to create a Weight Watchers-friendly muffin recipe. (Only 1 point per muffin for those of you who are doing WW!)
This muffin is dense, very low fat, spicy with cinnamon, and just sweet enough. It’s become one of my favorites. However, as my friend Patsy would say, “it’s rather earnest.” If you feel the need to jazz it up a little, add a handful of raisins and chopped walnuts to the batter. Or, slather the warm muffins with cream cheese, sweet butter, apple butter or a slab of cheese. Now we’re talkin’!
INGREDIENTS
(Makes 12 muffins)
Note: For these to be 1 point each on Weight Watchers, you’ll need to make 14 muffins.
1 cup unprocessed wheat bran, such as Bob’s Red Mill
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup skim milk
½ cup molasses
¾ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 tablespoon canola oil
3 egg whites, lightly beaten
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly spray a 12-cup nonstick muffin tin with cooking spray. Combine the wheat bran, flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg in a large mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, molasses, applesauce, oil and egg whites. Add to the dry ingredients and stir until just moistened.
- Spoon batter into the prepared muffin tin and bake for 15 to 18 minutes. Cool muffins for about 5 minutes in the pan, then remove them to a wire rack.
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