All Bran Pumpkin Muffins Recipe with Chocolate Chipes - These Old Cookbooks (2024)

September 10, 2017September 4, 2023

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All Bran Pumpkin Muffins are an easy pumpkin muffin with chocolate chips. These muffins feature all-bran cereal that just gives it something a bit extra. They taste great and are high in fiber.

Pumpkin Bran Muffins

Mama Griggs’s Pumpkin Bran Muffins with chocolate chips are full of flavor and are perfect for breakfast, afternoon snack or dessert. These All Bran Pumpkin Muffins are famous among Barbara’s housemates in college.

Why? Because they are darn delicious, that’s why! Let us describe them to you.

All Bran Pumpkin Muffins have loads of pumpkin flavor enhanced with the smells and tastes of fall. A blend of cinnamon, cloves, ginger and allspice gives not only taste amazing but also make the entire house smell great.

Let’s not forget the chocolate chips.Pumpkin and chocolate go hand-in-hand in desserts. And last but not least is the All Bran cereal.A big dose of fiber is good for everyone.

Mama Griggs’s Pumpkin Bran Muffins

I bet you are wondering who Mama Grigg’s is?Mama Griggs is the mother of Barbara’s house mate, and this recipe belonged to her.

Recently, Barbara had a special request to find and share these pumpkin muffins with chocolate chips from a former Glenwood Cooperative house mate at Purdue University. The girls in her house used to call these “Polka Dot Muffins” because of the great pumpkin color and loads of chocolate chips.

What makes these muffins a bit different than others out there is that they include a cup of all-bran cereal.Barbara says that alone makes them “healthy” and is a great excuse to eat two muffins!

This is one of those great mix everything together in one bowl recipes. Just grab a large mixing bowl and get started! Just be sure to grease the muffin tins well (or use liners).

All Bran Cereal Pumpkin Muffin Ingredient List

• Pumpkin, canned
• Large Eggs
• Sugar
• Vegetable Oil
• All Bran Cereal
• Flour
• Salt
• Baking Soda
• Baking Powder
• Ground Cinnamon
• Allspice
• Ground Cloves
• Ground Ginger
• Chocolate Chips

How to Make Pumpkin Muffins with Bran Cereal

Step by Step Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line or grease muffin pan with muffin liners.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, pumpkin, vegetable oil.
3. Fold in the bran cereal to the pumpkin mixture, and let set for 5 minutes.
4. To the wet mixture, add flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, ground cinnamon, ground cloves, ground ginger and allspice. Stir until completely combined.
5. Stir in chocolate chips.
6. Fill greased (or lined) cupcake tins two-thirds full with batter. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes clean.
7. Let cool for few minutes in the pan before removing to a wire rack to cool.

Storage Instructions

Let leftovers cool completely. Store in an airtight container or air-tight ziplock bag at room temperature. Muffins can also be kept in the freezer for up to three months in an airtight container.

For the full recipe and ingredient list for chocolate chip pumpkin muffins with bran, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

What spices smell and taste like fall?

There’s nothing that smells like fall than a blend of spiced goodness baked into your favorite dessert. Here’s a list of the top spices that scream fall.

• Cinnamon (sticks or ground)
• Allspice
• Nutmeg
• Cloves
• Ground Ginger

Recipe FAQs

• All Bran is a type of cereal found in the cereal aisle at the supermarket. All Bran is high in fiber.
• Be sure to let the All Bran sit in the wet ingredients for 5 minutes. This allows the bran cereal to soften. Skipping this step will result in crunchy muffins.
• Use canned pumpkin, not canned pumpkin pie filling.
• Substitute raisins for chocolate chips, if desired.
• These All Bran Pumpkin muffins are a great option for the Foods project in 4-H.
• If you don’t have any all-bran cereal in the house, try this version of Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins.
• Have extra All Bran, try these Double Chocolate Banana Bran Muffins too.
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What are pumpkin bran muffins good for?

Pumpkin muffins with bran have two good sources of fiber including the pumpkin and the bran. Both ingredients support healthy digestions which should help prevent constipation. Looking for a flourless pumpkin muffin recipe? Try these flourless peanut butter pumpkin muffins.

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