Apple-pecan Bran Muffins

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons canola oil or 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup buttermilk or 1 cup yogurt
• 3 tablespoons molasses
• 2 tablespoons honey or 2 tablespoons barley malt syrup
• 1/3 cup wheat bran or 1/3 cup oat bran
• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour, sifted
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ginger
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 apple, chopped
• 1/2 cup pecans, chopped

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400ºf and grease or line a 12-cup muffin tin.
• 2 in a large bowl, beat together the eggs, oil, buttermilk/yogurt, molasses, and honey.
• 3 stir in the wheat bran.
• 4 in medium bowl, mix together the pastry flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg.
• 5 stir the flour mixture into the bran mixture, being careful not to overmix.
• 6 fold in the apple and pecans.
• 7 spoon the batter into muffin tin and bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.