Banana Bran Muffins

MizzNezz's Note:

A favorite breakfast bread. A little richer than most.

• Total Time: 37 mins
• Prep Time: 12 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• ½ cup butter , softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups mashed, ripe bananas
• 1 tablespoon orange juice concentrate
• 1 ¼ cups flour
• ½ cup all-bran cereal
• ¾ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup raisins
• ½ cup finely chopped walnuts

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350F degrees.
2. Line muffin cups with paper liners.
3. Beat butter and sugar.
4. Beat in eggs, bananas and orange.
5. Mix flour,cereal,soda, and salt.
6. Stir flour mix, raisins,and nuts into creamed mixture.
7. Mix just enough to blend.
8. Fill muffin cups 3/4 full.
9. Bake 25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Reviews

[SaraFish]

These are scrumptious! I took a few liberties with the recipe and the results are really yummy. I used 1 cup of bran flakes instead of the all-bran and I used 1/4 cup of milk instead of the orange juice (to moisten the bran flakes). I increased the baking soda to 1 teaspoon and I also added a teaspoon of vanilla and a 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Don't skip the raisins and the walnuts, they really added delicious taste and texture to the muffins. It took about 5 small mashed bananas to equal just over a cup and a half. Also - with the changes I made, I ended up with 18 muffins. Be sure to spray your muffins cups with Pam. Wonderful! Thanks, Inez!

[Vicki in AZ]

These are so good that my son ate 6 of them after school.

[andrea pandrea]

Thanks for an awesome and simple muffin recipe! I doubled the recipe, added 3/4 cup applesauce (i only had about 2 cups of bananas and 2 eggs), I used brown sugar, wholewheat flour, natural bran instead of the cereal, substitued chopped dates for the raisins and didnt use any walnuts. Even though i made these changes, the muffins still turned out well and made 23 big muffins. Thanks again MizzNEzz!