Ice Box Bran Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Soak 1 cup of the bran in the 1 C. boiling water. In a mixing bowl cream crisco & sugar. Add beaten eggs, buttermilk, & soaked bran, mix together.
• 2. Mix together baking soda, salt, & flour. Add all at once to creamed mixture and add remaining 2 cups of bran. Fold in until moistened. Use greased cupcake tins or paper line tins.
• 3. 400 degrees for 15 minutes. Recipe can be doubled. Keeps up to 7 weeks in covered container in refrigator.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a muffin pan or line with muffin cups.
• Combine bran flakes and bran cereal in a heat-proof bowl. Cover with boiling water; stir and let sit until softened.
• Beat sugar, shortening, and eggs together in a very large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt into a bowl. Add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture. Stir in softened bran; mix until evenly incorporated.
• Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 15 minutes.