Shelly's Recipe

PUMPKIN BRAN MUFFINS

Category: Muffins

1 (15 oz) can pumpkin
1 cup bran cereal
1/4 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp brown sugar, packed
2 large eggs
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt, ginger and allspice
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup raisins
Coarse sugar for sprinkling

In a large mixing bowl, combine pumpkin, bran cereal, butter, and sugars. Stir in the eggs and buttermilk. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, spices, baking soda and baking powder. Stir into the pumpkin mixture, then stir in the raisins. Cover the bowl and refrigerate the batter for 4 hours or overnight.

Preheat the oven to 375. Lightly grease or line the wells of a muffin pan with papers. Scoop the batter into the pan, using a heaping 1/4 cup of batter for each. Sprinkle the tops with sugar if desired, then bake in the preheated oven for 25-28 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Remove the muffins from the oven and allow them to cool in the pan for five minutes before taking them out of the pan to finish cooling on a rack.