Mormon Muffins. That’s really what they’re called.

by Undercover Caterer on November 21, 2011

There are no words.

When I visited Utah a year or so ago, my cousin insisted on picking up these muffins. ”Muffins”? I said. ”What do we need to buy muffins for? We can just make some”. ”Trust me”, she said. ”You’ll like these”. I went along with it, I’m not going to argue over a dang muffin and besides, this Planet Rainbow place looked interesting.

For this, there are truly no words.

Those muffins truly were pretty darn good. We ate them all, slathered with the provided honey butter and speculated on what were the secret ingredients. Whole wheat flour? Bran? We didn’t know. Shannon said she thought she had a friend with a secret recipe and would check it out. I looked around myself and lo and behold, good old Rainbow Gardens put the real recipe up on the internets.

Thank you Rainbow Gardens!

And the “secret ingredients”? It’s BRAN CEREAL. A butt load of bran cereal. Those Mormons are some regular mother sonuvaguns.

A shitload of cereal and some other stuff.

Here’s another interesting “secret ingredient”. Adding the baking soda to boiling water. I don’t really know why you do that. But it does make it bubble up a lot.

How to activate Mormon Muffins and make 3rd grade volcanos.

Here’s where you have your cute child/niece/nephew/sister/etc help you mix up the shortening, eggs, and all the other stuff. Break the news gently that you’re not actually going to be eating the muffins until the next day.

What do you mean we're not eating these today?

Add in enough bran cereal to keep a family of four regular for a month. Stir. Pop the batter in the fridge overnight.

"Auntie Sawah, what is all dat ceweal doing in dere?"

Speaking of that batter…..there’s a lot of it. A LOT.

But hey! Since it needs to be in the fridge overnight, you’ve got plenty of time to think about who you want to give muffins away to…or who you might want to invite over for breakfast…….like all of your sister wives….

Time to go play! Yay!

24 hours later......

Ok, so you had your day of fun, had a good night’s sleep (or not), and now it’s morning. Time for breakfast. Grab your batter. Grease the muffin pan. Fill ‘em up.

See how thick the batter has become? Hint: It's just soggy bran cereal!

While the muffins are baking, you might want to mix up some of that honey butter that Rainbow Gardens serves with them. I just mixed softened butter with honey to taste.

Nothing better on a Mormon Muffin than honey butter.

These muffins come out crispy on the outside and fluffy and sweet inside. Break one open and schmutz some of that sweet honey butter on there and you will be in breakfast heaven.