As a kid, my mom used to make All-Bran muffins on the weekends, and I loved eating the batter just about as much as I loved eating the muffins.
This recipe is a veganized, reduced sugar, no-white flour rendition of All-Bran’s Almond Butter-Dark Chocolate All-Bran Muffins, and it serves as a perfect breakfast for long training days. These muffins get me through the first 2 hours of running or training, no problem.
Because they’re calorie dense and designed to provide fuel, they’re probably not the best choice for a mid-afternoon snack or a lazy day at home. But on those big training days (or if you have a busy day ahead and you know it will be several hours before you have a chance to eat again), enjoy the power of the muffins!
(You could also make mini muffins and reduce the baking time, and eat them as a healthy snack.)
Vegan Peanut Butter Bran Muffins
Servings: 6 jumbo muffins
Ingredients
- 1 TBL flax meal
- 3 TBL water
- 1 1/3 cup unsweetened almond milk (I like the vanilla flavored version)
- 1 cup bran flakes cereal
- 3/4 cup steel cut oats
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon or 1/2 tsp apple pie spice
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 cup brown rice flour
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 4 oz vegan bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped
- Extra cinnamon for sprinkling on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F, and grease a jumbo muffin tin
- Combine the flax meal, water, milk, bran cereal, and oats. Let sit for at least 5 minutes, until cereal becomes very soft
- Add applesauce, peanut butter, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg and mix well
- Add remaining ingredients except for the chocolate, and mix until just combined
- Gently fold in the chocolate chunks
- Distribute the batter equally in the tin to create 6 jumbo muffins. Sprinkle the muffin tops with cinnamon
- Bake for 25 minutes, or until the muffin tops are slightly firm
- Let the muffins rest in the tin for 2-3 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely
