Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Flaxseed, wheat, and bran muffins

High fiber, healthy breakfast muffin

INGREDIENTS
1 C.flaxseed ground
1 C whole wheat flour
1 C. Oat Bran
1 C. Brown sugar
2 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp. Cinnamon
1 1/2 C. shredded Carrots
2-3 Apples, cored and chopped up or shredded
1/2 C. Chopped nuts (optional)
1/2 c. Raisins (optional)
3/4 C. 2 % milk
2 Eggs, beaten
1 tsp. Vanilla

DIRECTIONS
Mix flour, flaxseed, bran, sugar and dry ingredients together. Shred carrots and apples and add these along with optional raisins and nuts to dry ingredients. Mix well. Stir together milk eggs and vanilla and stir this into batter until well moistened. Fill cupcake papers until 3.4 full and bake at 350* for 20 to 25 minutes.
Makes 24 med muffins.
( freeze them in ziplock bag, then just pull one out each morning and will be ready to eat 20 minutes later on the way to work! )

Number of Servings: 24

Yogurt-Bran Muffins

Yogurt and berries stir up into best bran muffins.

Prep Time:10 min
Start to Finish:30 min
Makes:12 muffins


1cup Fiber One® original bran cereal
2egg whites or 1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4cup vegetable oil
2containers (6 oz each) Yoplait® Original 99% Fat Free French vanilla yogurt
1 1/2cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour
1/3cup packed brown sugar
1 1/4teaspoons baking soda
1/2teaspoon salt
1/2cup fresh raspberries or blueberries

1.Heat oven to 400°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 12 regular-size muffin cups, or grease bottom of each muffin cup with shortening. Place cereal in resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag and crush with rolling pin or meat mallet (or crush in food processor).
2.In medium bowl, stir together egg whites, oil and yogurt. Add cereal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. Gently stir in berries. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each 3/4 full.
3.Bake 18 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from pan.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Decrease baking soda to 1 teaspoon.

source: fiberone.com