Hello
Darlings,
When I lived in Kentucky I had a friend who would
always bring me a bag or two of unshelled Hazelnuts. If you have ever had the
pleasure to eat whole hazelnuts, you know they are a very wonderful tasting and
highly nutritional nut. You may also know that shelling hazelnuts are difficult
and there were many times when I was tempted to pound them open with a sledgehammer.
It was to my credit that I didn't, and that I bravely labored on with a regular hammer
outside on the concrete walkway with the nuts in plastic bags.
Well, since living here in Florida I have not been
able to find any Hazelnuts, and my friend passed away long ago. Therefore,
imagine my surprise to find that My Spice
Sage had hazelnut meal, which is hazelnuts being grounded into a flour like
ingredient.
I had to have a bag of the meal, and after buying a
4-ounce bag of the stuff, I decided to bake some muffins. However, not just any
muffin recipe would do for mixing my hazelnut meal into. So I took the original
Kellogg's
Honey Raisin Bran Muffins recipe that I found on the Kellogg's website and revamped
it a bit to add my hazelnuts.
Here is the recipe that I
have named 'Kellogg's Honey Hazelnut Raisin Bran Muffins', and the recipe is as
follows:
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Kellogg's Honey Hazelnut Raisin
Bran Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup hazelnut meal
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 1/2 cups Kellogg's Raisin Bran® cereal
- 1 1/4 cups lactose-free milk
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
Directions
1.
Stir together
flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Set aside.
2.
In a large mixing bowl, combine Kellogg's
Raisin Bran cereal, milk and honey. Let stand 3 minutes or until cereal
softens.
3.
Add egg and
oil. Beat well. For this you can beat the mixture with your electric beater and
a single whisk attachment on low for two minutes. Avoid mashing the raisins.
4.
Add flour
mixture, stirring by hand only until combined.
5.
Add an even
portion of the batter into two standard muffin
pans coated with cooking spray.
6.
Bake at 400° F for 20 minutes or until lightly
browned. Serve warm.
Please note: the original
recipe calls for 1 3/4 cups of flour. However, for my recipe I substituted the 4-ounce
bag of the hazelnut meal for the remaining 1/2 cup of the flour.
In addition, if you are
calorie conscious as I have recently become then you should know that a single 'Kellogg's Honey Raisin Bran Muffin' has
190 calories per serving. However with
my added hazelnut meal and extra raisins the calories are about 248.30 per serving.
Wow! What a wonderful
tasting and nutritional addition to my morning breakfast of cottage cheese, grapefruit
and Bavarian chocolate tea. This latter can also be found at My Spice
Sage.
I know that you will enjoy these muffins as much as
I am now.
Download the PDF file.
Until next time,
Chow
Darling!