Orange muffins are American-style muffins with citrus filling that fit easily in the palm of your hand. Below are the most delicious and successful recipes for housewives who like to experiment and indulge their households with confectionery “curiosities”.

Orange zest muffins

To prepare aromatic muffins with a bright citrus flavor, it is enough to prepare:

  • 200 g of flour;
  • 130 g of sugar;
  • 100 g of oil;
  • 2 eggs;
  • big orange;
  • ½ sachet of baking powder;
  • some vanilla sugar.

Cooking method:

  1. Peel is removed from an orange with a grater, and then juice is squeezed from citrus.
  2. Oil is melted and combined with eggs, sugar.
  3. Introduced citrus juice and zest.
  4. After pouring the flour with baking powder, the dough is kneaded until smooth, but not for long.
  5. The mass is laid out in cupcake tins for ¾ volume.
  6. Muffin blanks are sent to an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 30 minutes.

When preparing a test for muffins, it is not recommended to use a mixer.

How to bake with juice

Muffins - easy-to-use baked goods, characterized by special tenderness and aroma. The recipe with orange juice involves the presence of:

  • 240 g of flour;
  • 150 g of sugar;
  • 120 g of oil;
  • 2 large eggs;
  • 180 ml of orange fresh;
  • ½ sachet of baking powder.


Cooking instruction step by step:

  1. In a deep bowl with a whisk or spoon, melted butter, eggs, sugar and juice are mixed.
  2. In small portions flour is poured into the liquid mixture, combined with a baking powder.
  3. From a homogeneous flour mass, muffin blanks are prepared by distributing it into forms that are filled by ¾.
  4. Bake for 25 minutes at 190 ° C.

Baking is especially good 20 minutes after preparation, when it has already cooled slightly, but continues to fill the room with an amazing aroma.

Step-by-step recipe from Julia Vysotskaya

Julia Vysotskaya has her secrets of making American muffins, which she shares in her culinary blog.

Ingredients:

  • 150 g of two types of flour (wheat and whole meal);
  • 350 g cranberries;
  • orange;
  • 70 g of walnuts;
  • as much brown sugar;
  • egg;
  • 280 ml of milk;
  • 120 ml of olive oil;
  • baking powder bag;
  • a pinch of salt.


Working process:

  1. First, citrus zest is rubbed, then juice is squeezed out of half an orange.
  2. Nuts are divided into large pieces.
  3. The berries are thawing.
  4. Both types of flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, zest and nuts are mixed in a bowl.
  5. In another bowl, juice, 100 ml of butter, milk are combined.
  6. Liquid substance is poured into the dry mass.
  7. After adding the berries, the dough is kneaded, which is distributed according to the forms greased with the remaining oil.
  8. Muffins are baked for 15 minutes in a preheated oven (180 ° C).

Replacing walnuts with hazelnuts or almonds will not only not spoil the taste of muffins, but will give it a new touch.

Chocolate Orange Muffins

Magic baking, combining the tenderness of the dough with the pleasant bitterness of chocolate, is prepared from the following components:

  • an orange;
  • tiles of dark chocolate;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 65 g of flour;
  • the same amount of sugar;
  • 2 eggs.


Stages of creating a confectionery:

  1. The orange is boiled over low heat for 1.5 hours, and then, after preliminary removal of the seeds with a blender, it is mashed.
  2. The yolks, separated from the proteins, are whipped with 40 g of sugar.
  3. The chocolate-butter mixture is melted and then cooled, and after the orange puree is added to the egg mass.
  4. Separately beat whites with the remaining sugar.
  5. When a dense protein structure is formed, the contents of the two containers are combined, mixed.
  6. Flour is poured in small portions.
  7. The mixed dough is poured in oiled molds, which are sent for 20 minutes to the oven with a temperature of 180 ° C.

The dessert is incredibly tender, it just melts in your mouth.

Kefir Baking

Thanks to kefir, the dessert turns out to be dietary, but at the same time lush. To prepare muffins for 250 ml of kefir, you will also need:

  • 220 g of sugar;
  • 100 ml of refined oil;
  • 400 g flour;
  • egg;
  • ½ orange;
  • 150 g of ground walnuts;
  • a pinch of soda and cinnamon.

The sequence of actions:

  1. Rubbed orange peel, chopped nuts.
  2. In a small bowl, beat the egg with butter.
  3. Soda is poured into a bowl of kefir.
  4. After the formation of bubbles on the surface of the fermented milk product, the egg mass is poured into the bowl, flour, sugar, cinnamon are poured.
  5. Zest and nuts are added, after which molds are filled with dough, which are sent to the hot oven for 25 minutes.

Before serving, you can sprinkle dessert with powdered sugar, which will make it even more appetizing.

Cooking in a slow cooker

Before you bake muffins in a slow cooker, you need to prepare:

  • 200 g of sugar;
  • 2 medium oranges;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 100 g of oil;
  • 280 g of flour;
  • ½ sachet of baking powder;
  • vanilla.

The sequence of stages of work:

  1. A thin layer of zest is removed from oranges, which is chopped in a meat grinder.
  2. The oil melts and cools.
  3. Juice is squeezed out of citrus.
  4. In a bowl, the eggs are ground with sugar, after which butter, flour, baking powder and zest are sent to the bowl.
  5. At the end, juice is added, after which the dough is poured into the multicooker bowl, which is installed on the Baking program with a time of 1 hour.

In a slow cooker, you get a product that looks more like an orange pie. But in structure and taste, it does not differ from muffins prepared in portioned molds.

Wet Orange Muffins

Delicious, delicate muffins, slightly moist inside, are obtained from the following components:

  • 1 oranges
  • 3 eggs;
  • 150 g butter;
  • 200 g of flour;
  • ½ sachet of baking powder;
  • 150 g of sugar.

Stages of creating products:

  1. The zest is removed from the oranges and rubbed, after which the juice is squeezed.
  2. Soft butter is ground with sugar and slightly beaten eggs.
  3. Juice, citrus zest, flour and baking powder are sent to the same container.
  4. Knead the dough of thick sour cream.
  5. The flour mass is distributed in forms that are placed in a preheated oven for 25 minutes.

To be sure of the readiness of the muffins, you can pierce the product with a toothpick (no lumps of dough should remain on it).

Muffins - an easy and quick dessert that will not leave indifferent either households or guests.

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