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My flatmate loves orange flavour in baking so I’d made these for him mostly (but also for me because they taste pretty good).
I make these quite a lot....in about 40 minutes start to finish (sometimes including washing-up time). The smell when you're baking them is impressive and they're great if you had told someone you'd bake for them and then totally forgot until just over an hour before you need to leave...not that I've ever left anything that last minute!!
My flatmate loves orange flavour in baking so I’d made these for him mostly (but also for me because they taste pretty good).
I make these quite a lot....in about 40 minutes start to finish (sometimes including washing-up time). The smell when you're baking them is impressive and they're great if you had told someone you'd bake for them and then totally forgot until just over an hour before you need to leave...not that I've ever left anything that last minute!!
The recipe is really simple and if you want to add a little extra something to the muffins, put half the mixture into the muffin cases, add a little bit of chocolate spread and then cover with the rest of the mix.
I find that the trick to making these muffins is to only just combine the ingredients...and add a spoonful of natural yogurt at the end if the mixture is getting too sticky!
So for the recipe...
Chocolate Orange Muffins
150g butter (melted); 175 ml milk; 1 egg; orange rind (grated); 1 tsp orange extract; 375g self-raising flour; 2 tsp baking powder; 100g chocolate chips; 50g caster sugar; 50g brown sugar.
Mix together butter, milk, egg, orange rind and orange extract. Sift flour & baking powder into a bowl & stir in chocolate chips and sugars. Add the milk mixture to the dry mixture and stir briefly until only just combined.
Mix together butter, milk, egg, orange rind and orange extract. Sift flour & baking powder into a bowl & stir in chocolate chips and sugars. Add the milk mixture to the dry mixture and stir briefly until only just combined.
Spoon the mixture into the paper muffin cases and pile it up a bit more in the centre.
Bake in a pre-heated oven (190C/Gas Mark 5) for 15 – 20 mins.
Bake in a pre-heated oven (190C/Gas Mark 5) for 15 – 20 mins.
I also make batches of lots more mini-muffins by using smaller cases and this will only take 12 - 15 minutes in the oven. They're better for taking to work (to share obviously) as people are much more likely to take a "wee bit" of a treat rather than having "a huge muffin" (although I don't think muffins are that huge)!!
