Healthy Wheat Bran & Flax Meal Muffins

This is a new recipe I just tried and I like it but I like wholesome muffins! It's really simple and bakes quickly. The wheat bran can be substituted with any highfiber bran cereal (as long as you grind it up in a food processor!)

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Serves: 16
• Yields: 16 muffins

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups  wheat bran
• 9  ounces skim milk
• 1  tablespoon lemon juice
• 1  large egg
• 3  ounces unsweetened applesauce
• 3⁄4 cup stevia or 3⁄4 cup Splenda granular
• 2  tablespoons honey
• 1⁄4 cup flax seed meal
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1  cup whole wheat flour
• 2  tablespoons rolled oats

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix wheat bran, milk, and lemon juice together. Let it sit while preparing the next step.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg until fluffy. Then beat in your sweetener of choice, honey, applesauce, ground flax, vanilla extract, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the bran mixture. Stir well.
5. Add whole wheat flour to mixture.
6. Spoon the mixture into muffin cups till about 2/3 full. Sprinkle the muffins with rolled oats.
7. Bake for about 20 minutes. Do the toothpick trick!