Honey Bran Muffins - Mimi's Cafe

By ctozzi

Ingredients

• dry ingredients:
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup wheat bran
• 4 tsp dry milk powder
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• "liquid" ingredients:
• 1/3 cup brown sugar (it called for dark, but all I had was light)
• 1/4 cup honey
• 2 Tbsp molasses
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 Tbsp grated orange zest (the orange flavor is a little overpowering, I'd probably reduce this to 1 Tablespoon or maybe even 2 teaspoons)
• Glaze:
• 3 Tbsp sugar
• 3 Tbsp brown sugar, packed
• 3 Tbsp butter (very soft or slightly melted - I put this whole mixture on top of the fridge while I did the rest and it worked really well)
• 2 Tbsp honey
• 2 tsp water

Details

Adapted from keyingredient.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Distribute about 1 Tbsp of the Glaze into 12 muffin tins and be sure to coat the bottom and sides of each muffin tin. (I did this just before I mixed the wet and dry ingredients so that the glaze was fairly liquid, and I just spread it evenly between all 12 tins rather than measure)
In a medium bowl (or one with a pour spout) mix all the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl (I didn't do this I just put all the wet ingredients into the middle of the dry ingredients and mixed them all together), mix the "liquid" ingredients. Stir the liquids into the dry ingredients until just moistened.

Fill muffin tins 2/3 full, bake at 350 for 20min, until a toothpick comes out clean (be sure not to fill the muffins too full because even at 2/3rds they spring up over the tops a little.
Immediately invert the baked muffins onto foil or wax paper to cool.
I put mine on wax paper, and then enjoyed eating the carmelized rings on the muffin tin - if you make them, you'll know what I'm talking about.