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This article contains over 20 recipes or recipe ideas for bran muffins. It also includes a list of add-ins for your bran muffins. You will also find a recipe for refrigerator bran muffins that I believe is at least 50 years old. I grew up with bran muffins. Maybe everyone did.

This is Banana Bread French Toast with Vanilla Buttermilk Syrup and Orange Cloud Whipped Cream. It's a delightful melding of flavors—bananas and cinnamon, vanilla cream buttermilk syrup, and orange. The banana bread is loaded with cinnamon chips. The syrup has a butterscotch-caramel flavor with an addition of vanilla that tones the flavors down a bit and brings the butterscotch to the forefront. It’s topped with an orange whipped cream that adds the perfect touch. It’s super easy to make.

This the flavor of my youth. After the Friday night ball games, we would drive up and down the boulevard in Stevie's Ford, spotting all the pretty girls. If we knew them and were brave enough, we would honk or wave. After the requisite number of trips up and down the boulevard, we would pull into the drive-in where another pretty girl would take our order.
I was shy. I never got a date doing that but I had lots of root beer floats. And it was a fun time with our buddies.
This is a fun flavor. Use your imagination and you'll have a lot of fun with it. These ideas will get you started.

When I was younger, my dad would pack jam and cheese sandwiches for camping and fishing trips. They might not have been the most pristine sandwiches, but they kept well. Later in life, I was introduced to the Monte Cristo sandwich–still the same jam and cheese, but these had ham and mustard added in and were either grilled or fried. It was an upgrade to the classic grilled cheese sandwich I never knew I needed.