one to make again and and again
Chocolate and orange are just so delicious together. With the oranges beginning to ripen on the trees putting them into muffins just seemed like the right thing to do.
I get together with a few like minded friends weekly to learn guitar, during our coffee break there’s always cake, I was hosting this week and must admit it’s been a busy week and I was tempted to go out and buy some cakes. My chief taste tester said these were like Jaffa cakes in a muffin and the guitar boys didn’t disagree.
These are so quick and easy to make, homemade muffins really couldn’t be simpler. They are also a lot more tasty than anything you’ll buy in the shops. Plus of course we know what’s gone into them. Organic oranges from trees near by have a flavour that no chemist will ever be able to copy.
- 2 cups s/r flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 1/4 cup olive oil (or melted butter)
- 2 large eggs
- 3 oranges zest and juice
- 100g dark chocolate chips
- caster sugar for dusting
- Pre-heat your oven to 180C (fan assisted)
- Combine the flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, chocolate chips and orange zest in a large bowl.
- Whisk together the oil, eggs and orange juice.
- Pour the wet mixture into the dry and combine quickly, don’t over mix just make sure it’s all combined together.
- Spoon into 12 silicon muffin cups
- Bake in the oven for approx 15 minutes until golden brown.
Don’t want chocolate or orange, it’s really easy to change the flavours. Replace the orange juice with 1 cup of milk and then add nuts, chocolate, cherries or anything else that takes your fancy.
To make it healthier the sugar can be substituted for honey or stevia.
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what’s your favourite muffin?
I love the concept of this. However, do you have a gluten free version? 🙂 I cannot eat gluten, because I have Celiac ….
Thank you Jim, you should be able to replace the flour with a gluten free self raising flour but would need to experiment with the quantities a little as each type of flour behaves in a different way. Good luck and let me know if you do make them gluten free…
Thank you for the suggestion! I am going to try it!
Need to find a way around the eggs but definitely got to try the Jaffins! 🙂
As an aside, my little brother lives with his partner on Symi. Beautiful place x
Let me know what alternative you find for eggs and I’ll add it as an option to the recipe. thank you and yes Symi is beautiful, I can guess who your brother is 🙂
It looks so yummy! I want some now!!!
thank you 🙂