These orange muffins are super moist, fluffy, and bursting with a citrus flavor that you won’t realize these are eggless. They are made with fresh orange juice, orange zest, and dotted with chocolate chips.
½cupOilflavorless oil like canola, corn, vegetable, safflower, avocado oil.
1cupOrange juice
2tablespoonsOrange zest
2teaspoonsPure vanilla extract
1cupChocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C) for at least 10 minutes.
Line a muffin tin with cupcake liners or grease the muffin indentation using oil, butter, or oil spray.
Take dry ingredients (all purpose flour, whole wheat flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, baking powder) in a bowl. Whisk it until everything is well mixed.
Take wet ingredients (oil, orange juice, orange zest, and vanilla) in another large bowl. Beat it using a wire whisk until everything is combined.
Add dry flour mixture into the wet mixture. Start mixing using a whisk and halfway through switch to a spatula. Mix until the batter comes together, do not overmix.
Add chocolate chips. Fold them into the batter.
Divide the batter equally into the 12 muffin cups.
Bake into the preheated oven for 23-27 minutes. Or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Let the muffins cool for 5 minutes in the pan itself then transfer to the cooling rack.
Notes
Always zest the orange first and then get the juice from it.
Don’t use a hand-mixer or stand-mixer. These electric mixers may over mix the batter and result in dense orange muffins. And sometimes mixer makes the batter very airy which produce large holes in the muffin crumb. So always use a spatula and mix until it is just combined.
Avoid over-mixing the batter. Instead of beating motion, fold the batter to mix. For that start with a wire whisk and halfway through switch to a spatula to avoid over-mixing.
Always add dry ingredients to wet. It makes mixing easier and makes fewer lumps. If you add wet to dry, you will get big lumps, to break those you will mix more, and then you’ll lose the tender, soft texture.
Do not open the oven door in-between the baking process to check otherwise orange muffins will deflate and sink in the middle.
You can sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top of the muffins for a pretty presentation.
Chocolate chip substitutions:
Fresh berries, e.g. blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, or cranberries
Dried fruit, e.g. cranberries, cherries, or raisins
Toasted, chopped nuts, e.g. walnuts, pecans, pistachios, almonds