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Thursday, March 24
Tenacity of the Colon
*Ahem*
For my inaugural appearance at Is My Blog Burning, I will get down and dirty. This episode is #13 of IMBB, and it is called "My Little Cupcake (or muffin)", hosted by Maki.
I've had a craving for awesome bran muffins lately, so that's exactly what I made, with some liberal modifications to suit the mood. Don't be afraid of the ingredients list... I just kept adding stuff as it suited me, so if you'd like to see the original on which this is based, check out Alan's Ultimate bran muffins. I owe Alan a debt for these awesome creations.
Tenacity's Terrifying Muffins (makes about 15)
1/2 cup whole grain flour (I used a mixture of wheat, oat, and buckwheat)
1/3 cup oat bran
1 1/2 cups wheat bran
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp espresso powder
1/4 tsp maple extract
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup buttermilk (or milk or yogurt, but buttermilk helps them stay really moist)
1/3 cup sugar/sweetener (I used mixture of brown rice syrup, molasses, and BLACK SYRUP)
1 egg
2 prunes (check to make sure no PIT remains!)
Combine dry ingredients. Toss wet ingredients into blender and puree until prunes are obliterated. The first time I did this one of my prunes had a pit, so I ended up with pit shards all over the place. Luckily a) it didn't kill my blender and b) I didn't mix it with the dry ingredients before I noticed. So I strained out the pieces and started over with 2 new and soft prunes. Eesh.
Mix gently together the wet + dry, then pour into muffin cups or tins (greased).
350 degrees for about 20 minutes, and you're done.
This batch made 12 regular muffins, and 9 mini-muffins. Here's one of the cutie little minis:
The large ones rose gently but then flattened out, as you can see in this view where they instead look like brown oatmeal cookies:
The flavor? Moist, just a teeny bit sweet, and very rich. The espresso powder and the black syrup helped a lot this time around, so I will probably use them again. Next time I might add different fruit, like dates. Mmmmm, dates.
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