Bran Muffins

Those of you from South Africa surely know 'Bokomo' - The Goodness of Home Being, and I'm quite sure many others know too - at least here in Mauritius. We get quite a lot of their assortment and personally I prefer Bokomo to other brands.

Did you know there's a recipe at the back of 'Right Start - Bran Flakes' box?

This box has a 'Bran Muffins' recipe, which I had to try! :)

Here's what you need:

Mix dry ingredients...

... with the liquid...

Mix together and in the muffin cups it goes, top with a little oats.

 (Don't forget to lick the spatula!) :))  

Being a South African recipe, I should have thought of the size of the muffins tin! :))

The recipe says 'makes 12', the dough didn't look that much, but.... I got 12 small and 5 big muffins! Should have used the big muffin tin right from the start!

Bran Muffins - makes 12

500 ml (Sasko) self-raising flour

1 ml mixed spice or nutmeg (I used nutmeg)

1 ml cinnamon

10 ml (Moir) baking powder

15 ml Right Start Bran Flakes

60 ml soft brown sugar or 30 ml molasses

1 small apple, peeled and grated,

or a medium grated carrot

(use 125 ml soaked Werda dried carrot)

125 ml (Safari) sultanas or seeded raisins

80 ml oil

2 eggs

250 ml milk, buttermilk or Bulgarian yogurt

Handful of (Bokomo) oats for topping

Preheat the oven to 180C.

Place paper muffin cups into muffin tins and spray with non-stick spray (I used a little bit oil)

Sift the flour, spices and baking powder into a mixing bowl.

Stir in the flakes.

Stir in the sugar or molasses, apple or carrot and raisins with a fork.

Beat the eggs with the milk and oil until smooth.

Add to the dry ingredients and stir with a fork until just mixed and still lumpy.

Fill each muffin cup three quarters full and top with a little oats.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer/toothpick comes out clean.

Allow to cool on a wire rack.

(Recipe from BOKOMO - ZA) 

After reading the recipe, I felt cheated! Why? Bran muffins... and the recipe contains not more than 15ml bran flakes, which is almost nothing to me!

In addition, I added more bran flakes, a little bit oats, grated coconut, more milk and cardamom.

They turned out yummy! It should be healthy too; not too much sugar...