Jaffa Muffins

Fairy Nuff's Note:

Delicious, light and fluffy muffins - excellent, quickly prepared after school snack or lunch box treat. Really yummy straight out of the oven.

• Total Time: 25 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 12.0 muffins

• 2 cups self-raising flour
• 60 g butter (1/4 cup)
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 2 eggs , lightly beaten
• ½ cup milk
• ½ cup orange juice
• 1 tablespoon orange zest (no pith)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 220 deg C (425F) Sift flour into bowl.
2. Rub in butter.
3. Add remaining ingredients.
4. Mix well.
5. Spoon into greased muffin trays.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes.

Reviews

[Chef #272434]

Yum, I love these muffins! Great moist dense muffin. I plan to adjust it to make different flavored muffins. I'm hoping to use this basic recipe and turn it into lemon poppy muffins. Maybe I'll post the variation if it works. Thanks so much for sharing!

[cardamomstars]

Splendid.One of the best muffins I have ever made. Reminded me of Terry's chocolate orange(England). They are very very easy to make and look beautiful when they come out of the oven. I used dark choc chips. I will make again soon!!!! The children yummed there way through eating them!!!! I also used all purpose flour and added 3 tsp of baking powder and 1 tsp of salt to substitute. You must try these!!!!!

[Geca]

Just made these muffins and have to say they taste BEAUTIFUL. Sweet but not too sweet, delicate orange flavor and the chocolate chips are great. The flavors here are spot on, so thanks for this! However, there's something definitely proportionally off with the muffin recipe. A previous reviewer mentioned these were dense -- holy cow, these are pound-cake dense (minus the buttery-ness of pound-cakes). The managed to stay moist, but whoa that's not a muffin so much as a little cake. The other challenge was that the outsides of the muffin burned at 425 for 15 minutes but the inside was fine. This is a sign that the muffins cooked at too high a temperature. I would lower to 400 or maybe lower a little more and cook longer, 25-30 minutes.