Bran Muffin Recipes

If you like bran muffins, we don’t have to convince you of their great taste or importance in maintaining good health. If you think bran muffins taste like saw dust, you need to do some more research. Bran muffin recipes have come far since the introduction of the bran muffin and its 1970s granola crunching popularity. These days, bran muffin recipes include everything from blueberries and pecans to dates, bananas and apple sauce. Bran muffins are moist and delicious and the perfect complement to a Sunday brunch or a late-night cup of tea.

If you are looking for unusual additions to your bran muffin recipe, consider some of these: pears or pear juice, sour cream, pineapple, figs, orange juice or orange zest, cranberry, lime or lemon zest, currants, brown sugar, cheddar, cinnamon, and even buttermilk. 

Chef, Paula Deen has used everything from chunks of banana – the more sedate version of bran muffin – to a combination of apple chunks and raisins. The legendary Julia Child favored the classic bran muffin recipe, made with oat bran but the classic has come far since then. Want a recipe for bran muffins? Look no further than the internet. Recipe sites are very popular today and you can always find a new twist on an old favorite.

Why go to so much trouble to modernize the bran muffin? Because bran muffins are still one of the best ways to add fiber to your diet and, pound for pound, are healthier for you than the new designer muffins that contain custard, chocolate and other sweets. Over the years, bran muffins have gotten a bad rap. They are right up there with the vegetarian diet and the granola culture. But the fact is that a good bran muffin recipe will give you the health factor of bran and the good taste to rival a pastry or croissant. What could be better?  

So when your family tells you they don’t like food that is good for them, break out your newest bran muffin recipe and bake up batch of bran muffins and fill the kitchen with the wonderful aroma. Then wait for the family to eat their words – along with a few of those bran muffins you just baked!