I registered on this site just so that I could post this comment. I found the recipe through Google and thought it sounded like it would be great. I love bran muffins A LOT, and the spices, the carrot, the seeds, the raisins... it sounded like it would be delicious.

I mixed them up, and when I was putting them into the cups, I thought to myself that it looked kind of ...bran-y. I mean, like really, really bran-y. The recipe had more bran than flour, but being an idiot (and one who loves bran muffins), I just followed it, and obediently scooped my dry and overwhelmingly bran-y mixture into the bowl. I tried a bit of the batter... it didn't really taste of much and was pretty dry, but I just ignored this (with hindsight, ignoring the fact that your batter tastes baaaad is not a good idea) and stuck them in the oven.

I wish I hadn't, because this is the only time in my entire life I have thrown something away right out of the oven.

This was like baked bran. Really, you needn't bother adding the other ingredients. Some of them are kind of expensive (compared to bran, anyway), and really, all you get at the end of following this recipe is baked bran. It starts to burn on top because it's so dry, and there's not enough liquid in this for the carrot to cook, so you really have bran with raw carrot mixed through. Sound bad? It is.

These muffins were SO disgusting. Against my better judgement, I tried a bit, and it was horrendous. It was like eating sawdust. I am sorry that this review is so long, but truly, I could write something 300 times this length and still not have enough words to convey quite how bad these are.

Did I mention how BAD these muffins are? Eeegh, I'm still picking bits of dried bran out of my teeth. Eeeeegh. Don't make them. Please, just don't make these horrible, horrible muffins.