Description
Applesauce replaces oil in this old recipe for healthy bran muffins. Great for breakfast or a snack.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups bran cereal (such as Kellogg’s® All-Bran®)
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ⅔ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup applesauce (such as Mott’s®)
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup self-rising flour
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ½ cup sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
- Mix bran cereal and buttermilk together in a bowl; let sit for 10 minutes.
- Beat brown sugar
- applesauce
- egg
- and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; stir into bran cereal mixture. Stir flour into bran cereal mixture until batter is well mixed; fold in walnuts and dried cranberries. Spoon batter into the prepared muffin cups.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in a muffin comes out clean
- 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer muffins to a wire rack to cool.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 12