Great Harvest Muffin Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Line muffin pan with cups, if desired.
• Squirt each cup with non-stick cooking spray.
• Combine first 8 ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Stir until well blended.
• In a separate smaller bowl combine next 5 ingredients (bananas - butter), stir until well blended.
• In another separate small bowl, combine next 6 ingredients (almonds - nutmeg) for muffin topping.
• Add banana mixture to the flour mixture along with the raisins, if you desire.
• STIR JUST UNTIL MOISTENED. Do not over stir.
• Fill muffin cups 2/3 way full.
• Press enough of the brown sugar-nut topping into each muffin to cover the top, and to your taste. About 2 Tbsp per muffin.
• Bake at 375 for about 20 minutes, until the muffin springs back when lightly touched.
• Makes 16 small muffins, or 8 giant-sized muffins.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Place paper baking cup in each of 18 regular-size muffin cups or grease with shortening. In large bowl, beat eggs, oil, milk and vanilla with wire whisk until well blended. Add flours, brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. With spoon, stir in carrots, apple, coconut, raisins and 1/2 cup of the almonds.
• Divide batter evenly among muffin cups, filling each about 3/4 full. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup almonds over batter.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes; remove from muffin cups.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Mix together dry ingredients.
• Mix fruits, nuts and spices into dry ingredients.
• Whisk together eggs and yogurt in a separate bowl.
• Add melted butter to yogurt mixture, whisking to combine.
• Gently fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just moistened - do not overmix, some lumps are fine.
• Divide evenly into 12 lined muffin cups - load them full as these don't rise.
• Bake for 18-25 minutes or until firm and golden.
• Cool on a rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 F degrees.
• In a mixing bowl, combine wheat bran, flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder; stir well to blend.
• In a separate mixing bowl, beat egg.
• Add brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, molasses, raisins and chopped dried apricots and mix well to blend.
• Add liquid ingredients all at once to the dry ingredients.
• Stir until dry ingredients are just moistened.
• Line a 12 cup muffin baking pan with paper liners.
• Fill cups 3/4 full with mixture.
• Bake in preheated 375 F oven for 20 to 23 minutes or until tops spring back when lightly touched.
• Remove muffins to a wire rack to cool.
• As a variation, replace 1/2 cup natural wheat bran wih 1/2 cup of oat bran and then increase the buttermilk to 1 1/3 cups.

Steps:

• Combine all dry ingredients, fruits, nuts, raisins, and carrots in a large bowl.
• Mix together oil, milk, vanilla and eggs.
• Stir the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until the dry are moistened.
• Do not over mix.
• Fill well greased muffin tins 3/4 full.
• Bake at 350°F for 20 to 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Combine sugar and applesauce.
• Add eggs and pumpkin.
• Sift together dry ingredients and add alternately to pumpkin mixture with water.
• Fold in raisins and carrots.
• Spoon into lined muffin tins and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middles comes out clean.