Mormon Muffins

Ingredients

• 4 cups bran cereal such as Kellogg's® All-Bran®
• 5 teaspoons baking soda 
• 2 cups bran flakes cereal 
• 0.5 cup butter melted
• 1 quart buttermilk 
• 4  eggs beaten
• 5 cups flour all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 0.5 teaspoon ground ginger 
• 0.5 teaspoon nutmeg 
• 1 teaspoon salt 
• 0.5 cup vegetable oil 
• 1 cup walnuts chopped
• 2 cups water boiling
• 1 cup sugar white

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• plastic wrap
• muffin liners

Directions

1. Combine boiling water and baking soda together in a large bowl.
2. Let cool slightly.
3. Stir flour, buttermilk, bran cereal, bran flakes, walnuts, sugar, oil, butter, eggs, cinnamon, salt, ginger, and nutmeg into water-baking soda mixture until just combined. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate muffin batter for at least 8 hours or overnight.
4. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 60 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
5. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups 1/2 full.
6. Bake muffins in the preheated oven until the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 20 minutes.