Upside-Down Orange Bran Muffins

(15 servings)

  • 1 cup Nabisco 100% Bran cereal
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 Tablespoons shortening
  • 1 teaspoon grated orange rind
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg - beaten
  • 1 cup sifted flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 5 Tablespoons honey
  • 30 orange segments
  • Maraschino cherries
Combine bran and milk; let stand 5 minutes. Cream shortening, orange rind, sugar; add egg and beat well. Add bran mixture. Sift together dry ingredients. Add to mixture; stir only until mixed.

In each well-greased muffin pan, put 1 teaspoon honey, 2 orange segments (membrane removed), cherry in center. Fill 2/3 full of batter. Bake in hot oven (400 degrees) for 25 minutes. Turn out, "Fruit-side up."

15 of the dreamiest muffins you ever baked! Fine and fluffy-light because they're made with Nabisco 100% Bran - the finer-milled bran that gives you finer baking results. (Furnishes important nutrients and diet-bulk, too!)


Upside-Down Orange Bran Muffins


(100% Bran is a double-milled wheat bran cereal originally produced by Nabisco. Other brands are now available, but many still consider Nabisco's to be the best.)


Juicy-fruity bran muffins... a taste-good dish that's good for you! From a classic magazine ad for Nabisco 100% Bran.


Mr Breakfast would like to thank Mr Breakfast for this recipe.

Recipe number 3004. Submitted 3/22/2011.