Carrot Cake Bran Muffin Recipe

Pastry chef Belinda Leong — of b. Patisserie in San Francisco — developed this recipe for town’s revered 4 Barrel coffeehouse. When requested to make bran muffins, she added wheat bran to her favourite carrot cake recipe and ready all of it in miniature. The result’s a very fluffy bran muffin that is full of carrot taste and stays moist for days. Right here, the recipe Leong shared for F&W’s 2013 cookbook America’s Biggest New Cooks.

What precisely is wheat bran?

Bran encompasses the outer layers of any cereal grain — the tougher, extra fiber-rich half that protects the extra simply digestible inside. This half is eliminated when processing polished grains (like white rice and pearl barley) and milling refined flours, but it surely’s additionally what provides complete grains and whole-grain flours their taste and vitamins. Wheat bran is a typical addition to baked items that simply boosts their insoluble fiber content material.

Notes from the Meals & Wine Check Kitchen

These muffins are nice as a nutritious, not-too-sweet breakfast or snack — however they’d be tasty along with your favourite cream cheese frosting, too.