Here is a creative way to begin the morning and insure you get your children to eat their cereal! When I read the recipe, my thoughts go to bran cereals, cornflakes, and if I'm being wild, possibly a raisin bran type of cereal. Knowing my children, even at the college age, they would want to try some colorful, sweet cereal just to see how it worked in a muffin. It is a good way to use up that half box of cereal that wasn't popular with milk!
Cereal Killer Muffins
2 1/2 cups dry cereal - your choice!
1 quart buttermilk
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter (that's two sticks)
4 eggs
5 cups all-purpose flour
5 teaspoons baking soda
Raisins, nuts . . . optional
Cream sugar, butter, eggs and 1/4th of the buttermilk in a large mixing bowl. Add flour, baking soda, the rest of the buttermilk and the cereal and mix to just combine. It makes a bunch so how many you get depends on the size muffins you are making.
Fill paper-lined muffin cups 2/3 full and bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15-20 minutes. Mixure will keep in a sealed container in the refrigerator so you can make it the night before.
Ideas to change/improve recipe.
Vanilla extract has yet to hurt most any muffin recipe.
Cinnamon takes muffins to a whole, new level.
Soaking the raisins in juice or brandy does a muffin good.
Grating some lemon or orange zest into the batter puts you on superior baker level.
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