Choc Orange Muffins
A great snack treat for anyone at home for these zesty and full of chocolate fragrance muffins
Ingredients
- 175 g butter - room temperature
- 175 g dark chocolate - use 66% valrhona chocolate
- 140 g brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs - lightly beaten
- 1 orange zest - use large orange
- 140 g self-raising flour - or cake flour +1.5 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 6 orange slices (halved)
Instructions
- Melt butter and chocolate in a double boiler of simmering water, stirring until smooth. Add vanilla extract and sugar, stir until dissolved. Remove from heat.
- Add beaten eggs and zest, stir well.
- Sift flour and cocoa and fold into mixture with a rubber spatula, until just combined. Pour chocolate batter into 6 cupcake liners (or smaller 12 cupcake liners) and top each with a slice of orange.
- Bake in preheated oven at 160 deg C for about 35 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. **for smaller muffins bake about 25 mins**
Notes
Do not overmix the batter, the gluten in the flour can form elastic gluten strands – resulting in a more dense texture.
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