My four boys are undoubtedly carnivores—I’m their mother! Typically, I enjoy cooking a lot of slow-simmered dishes with little preparation. such sauces, pot roasts, stews, etc. These methods work well for me because they take little time to prepare and cook. Just check on them occasionally, et voilà, dinner!
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 muffins |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate, grated
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons margarine, softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon orange zest
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ½ cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin pan, or line with paper liners.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, semisweet chocolate, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In a separate medium bowl, cream together margarine and sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time then stir in the orange zest, orange juice, and buttermilk. Pour into the flour mixture, and mix just until evenly moist. Spoon batter into muffin cups.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Let muffins cool in the pan on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 237 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 35 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 347 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I substituted 1/4 cup flour for cocoa powder to make it more chocolatey, and I added dried cranberries, but somehow, I couldn’t taste the orange, chocolate, or cranberries.
These turned out great! Although I’m one of those people that substitute everything. So I subbed in brown sugar, olive oil, an entire blended orange and white chocolate chips. I also added hemp seeds. I would have given it five stars except I didn’t follow the recipe exactly.
Delicious recipe! Instead of the chocolate I used 12 tablespoons of cocoa, four tablespoons of sugar and six tablespoons butter. For buttermilk I put a teaspoon of vinegar in half a cup of milk as well as adding two dollops of plain yogurt. The batter was really thick when you put it in the pans but the muffins themselves were sort of light. Will definitely use this recipe again!
It’s a good muffin, but the orange flavor is so light you almost don’t taste it. Smelled great in the oven!
Made these for my church muffin sales. I didn’t have buttermilk, I used milk and vinegar. they were sold out so fast! Will make them again.
My first batch following the recipe was disappointing: too dry and ripped apart when you peeled the liners off the muffins. My second batch was very delicious and had a great texture with these changes. Many thanks to the reviewers for some of these ideas: 1. Preheat oven to 400 and prepare muffin pan with liners. 2. In a small bowl prepare the glaze, 2 tsp oj concentrate & 1 tsp powdered sugar. 3. Mix dry ingredients (2 cups all-purpose flour, 3/4 cups sugar (half brown sugar and half white sugar), 1/2 tsp salt, 2 tsp baking powder, no baking soda, 1 TBSP orange zest, 1 cup mini chocolate chips. 4. In a measuring cup, add 1/3 cup canola oil, 1 egg, 1/2 plain lofat yogurt, and fill to the 1 1/2 cup mark with orange juice (about 1/3 cup). Add 1/4 tsp orange extract. 5. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir just to moistened or almost moistened. Okay to have little bits of flour unmixed. 6. Fill muffins to top of liners and top with glaze. 7. Bake 15-20 until toothpick comes out clean 8. Let cool on rack for 10 minutes before removing from muffin tin.
Changed the recipe to what I had on hand in the house. Was out of buttermilk so 2 teaspoons of vinegar in the half cup then filled it the rest of the way with milk. Chocolate chips instead of grated squares. Butter instead of margarine. An orange marmalade instead of the juice and zest. Next time I might do half a cup instead of 1/4 thou, for more flavor.
Loved this idea – the grated baking chocolate really came through in this recipe for a distictive change of pace
This recipe was okay. It might be 4 stars if it had more flavor! The muffins just tasted plain and it was hard to taste the chocolate and orange, even though I doubled the chocolate amount and added orange extract. I might try these again but I will add more orange extract, orange zest, and chocolate!!
These are extraordianry. I used exactly the ingredients the recipe called for–didn’t make any substitutions.
this is a very good recipe for muffins.i just added a little less sugar and i think that can be made of varied ingredients.the mixture turns out so well.
These are delicious, light, and airy. I used miniature chocolate chips, but otherwise followed the recipe. YUM!
This were a big hit at church this morning. I used chocolate chips because I needed to make them fast and added an orange glaze made out of concentrated orange juice and powdered sugar as soon as they were done baking to add more orange flavor. As a side note I ended up with 16 muffins instead of 12.
This is so yummy! I use 3 oranges for the juice, & abit more zest. Plus i use regular chocolate chips. They are just great, will always make more, & my family loves them that right after they are baked they r gone!
Good recipe. When I made this, I used 1 small fresh orange instead. Not enough orange flavor so next time I will use 2 oranges. Batter turned out thick.
To get more orange taste I added a few drops of orange extract and it was absolutly delicious
Nice orange flavor, we will be making these frequently. We just put in half a bag of dark chocolate chips instead.
i made these, but made them healthier. they came out soooo good. i used mostly whole wheat flour (combined with unbleached white flour). i only had one egg, so i put it plus half a banana. i didn’t have any milk, so i put more orange juice. and instead of margarine, i put apple sauce. plus, i added a couple tablespoons of flaxseed meal (for extra nutrition) and walnuts. the muffins came out so good, my husband and i, each, had 2 of them. i would definitely make them again!
i melted the chocolate before i added it the mix and they were gorgeous !!!
Very good. The muffin is very light and moist, not dense and hearty. It has a delicate orange flavour. Perfect amount of sweetness. It was very easy to make and took only 15 min to bake. I used milk chocolate chips instead (1 Cup) and I used butter instead of margarine. I will make again. THX
Excellent tasting but dry and dense. Take out of oven sooner and use honey in recipe instead of sugar.