Orange and chocolate muffins are so delicious that I cannot resist to stop preparing them. I love the smell when baking and incredible taste of orange mixed with white chocolate when having my morning coffee. Best thing about muffins is that you can be really creative and you can bake your own designed muffins.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 glass of sugar - I use powder sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 glasses of plain flour
- 200 ml fresh orange juice
- 400-500 ml butter milk
- 100 g butter
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 250 g orange jam
- 100 g white chocolate
- 100 g candied orange
- 100 ml cointreau liqueur
- 20 g vanilla sugar
- 1/3 tsp salt
- chocolate for decoration
- decorate your orange muffins as desired - be creative
Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 C (top and bottom heat).
2. Cut the chocolate into small pieces. Mix the flour with sugar, salt, baking powder and vanilla sugar.
3. Beat the eggs, then add orange juice, cointreau liqueur, buttermilk, melted butter and orange jam. Then add these ingredients into flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix well.
4. At the end add candied orange and white chocolate into the mixture.
5. Fill the muffin (cupcake) baking moulds to approx. 2/3 full. Do not overfill. Am using silicon moulds for that as I think they are best. Do not forget to springle some oil over the moulds so your cupcakes won't stick when baked.
6. Place the muffins into the center of a pre-heated oven and bake for approx. 20 minutes.
7. Muffins are ready when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
8. Cool 5 minutes then remove cupcakes from the moulds and place on wire racks to cool completely.
9. If the muffins are not coming out, carefully move a blunt blade along the rim.
10. Decorate with dark chocolate. Remember to be creative.
ENJOY!!!
