kneady Girl: Casssic Bran Muffins

Well it's Monday and I feel exactly like Monday sounds. I feel like there is a long week ahead of me. I needed something to make for the kids snack so I decided that I would go to old reliable. Muffins. I love me a good muffin, and thankfully so do my kids. I found this recipe from All Recipes and it really is great. The original recipe called for * buttermilk, but I did not have any on hand so I substituted milk with 1 tsp of lemon juice. I hope you make them for your family.

Recipe:

1 1/2 cups wheat bran                               1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup buttermilk*                                     1cup flour
1/3 cup vegetable oil                                1 tsp baking soda
1 egg                                                         1 tsp baking powder
2/3 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp salt

Method:

In a med bowl, combine bran and buttermilk and let stand for 5 min. In a small bowl mix the sugar, oil, egg and vanilla.

Add the sugar oil mixture to the bran and buttermilk. Mix with a spatula.

In yet another bowl, sift together the flour, salt baking powder and baking soda. As you can see, I hate sifting, so I just use a whisk. Because I can.

Oh ya, I added mini chocolate chips just because I can as well.

Add the flour and chocolate chips and stir until just combined. This picture doesn't show it well, but there are still light streaks of flour throughout.