Baby Bran Muffin Recipe

Here's another recipe from 101 cookbooks. I made these for the first time today, and I love them. They are nutritious, moist, and not very sweet.

2 cups white whole wheat flour OR stone ground whole wheat flour

1 1/2 cups wheat bran

3/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt

1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda

2 tablespoons raw natural cane sugar OR brown sugar

2 cups full fat yogurt

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/2 cup honey, preferably a light honey such as clover

2 tablespoons melted butter

1 cup of add-ins of your choice - raisins, chopped dried fruit, nuts, etc (optional, but I did enjoy my addition of walnuts)

Preheat oven to 425F degrees, racks in the middle.

In a medium bowl, combine the flour, wheat bran, salt, baking soda and sugar.

Beat together the yogurt, egg, honey, and butter in a second larger bowl. Add the dry ingredients and fold in until everything comes together. Fold in any optional add-ins, raisins, nuts, and the like. Resist over-mixing.

Either grease a mini-muffin tin with butter or line the tin with small muffin papers. Fill each 3/4 full. Bake 10 -15 minutes, until muffins are golden on top and cooked through. You can also make larger muffins in a standard size muffin pan with this batter, you just need to bake them about 5 minutes longer.

*The recipe claims to make 2 dozen mini muffins and 1 dozen regular muffins, but my batch today made 2 dozen regular muffins. Maybe that was because I added a cup of walnuts?