Banana Bran Muffins

Submitted by Feisty

"After trying a lot of disappointing bran muffins, I came up with this one. The spices give a little more punch, while the raisins and nuts add iron and additional fiber. It's a great way to use up ripe bananas."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 12 muffins
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 3 medium bananas
• 1 cup all-bran cereal
• 2⁄3 cup 2% low-fat milk
• 1⁄4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1⁄4 cup canola oil
• 1 large egg
• 1⁄3 cup pecans, chopped
• 1⁄3 cup raisins
• 1 1⁄2 cups unbleached flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg

directions

1. Put bananas in large bowl and blend with an electric mixer until well mashed. Add bran cereal and milk, and let stand for 5 minutes.
2. Add brown sugar, oil, and egg to mixer bowl and blend well. Add pecans and raisins, and blend inches.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Stir into the bran mixture until just combined.
4. Spoon batter into greased muffin tins until 2/3 full. Bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes.

Reviews

[Chef Cookin Good]

Perfect in every way! I’m 74 yrs old and I have made dozens of banana muffins and this is it forever now. Delicious, moist, just right sweetness, healthy, easy and quick. As I said, Perfect in every way! Thank you Feisty for sharing your recipe!

 

[drae912]

This is a fantastic recipe! We didn't care much for the idea of raisins in muffins...so instead i added dried apricots and dates. I also make my own brown sugar.Then, in addition to the spices I added 1/2 a teaspoon of vanilla extract. These muffins were very moist and not too sweet...but not bland either.

 

[grabowski92]

I made these this week, also found them very tasty and moist. But, I divided the batter in half, adding a handful of chocolate chips (semisweet) to one and a small (1 oz.) box of raisins to the other, since my husband does not care for raisins. Otherwise, I followed the recipe closely, except for using 1% milk since it's what we buy. They were done in 18 minutes. I froze what was left (4 of each kind) to have for breakfast later.

 

[ccbean]

I have tried about a dozen banana bran recipes and this is definitely the best! The spices give it a good flavor, it has great texture and is moist.

 

[Calee]

Awesome banana muffins. My family loves these they are not overly sweet with only 1/4 cup of brown sugar the banana gives them an extra bit of sweetness, I used very ripe bananas. I used 1% milk and great idea to let the cereal sit for 5 minutes. I didnt add the raisins as we dont care for them in muffins. The cinnamon and nutmeg are a wonderful addition. Next time I want to try adding 1/2 whole wheat flour see how that turns out. Mine baked in 18 minutes and I got 12 meduim sized muffins. Made for PAC fall 09. Thanks for sharing this recipe its one I will be making again.