There are few combinations that I like more than chocolate and orange when it comes to sweet recipes. That's why I couldn't resist preparing these chocolate orange muffins with the recipe that a friend gave me. Cute and fluffy, they are quite an addiction.
The chocolate and orange muffins are ideal to complete the breakfast or snack of the family. They are simple and quick to prepare and if properly stored in an airtight metal container, they can last up to 4 days like the first day. Do you dare to try them? You will not regret.
Chocolate orange muffins
The chocolate and orange muffins that we prepare today are simple and tender, ideal for breakfast or a family snack.
Author Maria
Recipe type: Dessert
Rations: 12
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Ingredients
- 3 eggs at room temperature
- 150 g. brown sugar
- 50 ml. milk
- 100 ml. Of olive oil
- 10 g. chemical yeast (Royal type)
- Juice of ½ orange
- Zest of ½ orange
- 230 g. pastry flour
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons of pure cocoa powder
Preparation
- We sift the flour and mix with the rest of the dry ingredients: salt, cocoa and yeast.
- In another container, we beat the eggs with the sugar for 15 minutes, until a homogeneous and aerated mixture is achieved.
- Add, little by little, the milk and oil interspersed without stopping to beat.
- Then, we add to the previous dough the mixture of the flour and the orange juice in an interleaved way, mixing until obtaining a homogeneous mass.
- Finally we add the zest orange and we finished mixing.
- We cover the container with plastic wrap and we take to the fridge for 1 hour.
- We preheat the oven at 220ºC and we place a paper capsule in each metal mold.
- We distribute the dough, filling each one of them to half or three quarters of its capacity.
- We bake the muffins at 200 ° C for 14 minutes.
- We remove from the oven, unmold and let them cool on a rack.