These muffins have a lot of orange flavors because you will be using fresh orange juice and also the rind of the orange that contains oil and intense orange flavors. These muffins are pretty healthy because you will not be using butter, you will use a little oil and a lot of orange juice to keep these muffins moist. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees then add all-purpose flour into a bowl together with salt, baking powder then whisk the dry ingredients.

Zest the orange over a measuring cup and you should have about one biog heaping tablespoon of orange zest the juice of the oranges. For the wet ingredients, add vegetable oil to the orange zest then crack two large eggs into the cup and a teaspoon of vanilla extract and one cup of fresh orange juice. In a bowl, add white sugar then pour the wet ingredients into the sugar and mix that until everything is well combined.

Walnuts go really well with these orange muffins so if you love them to add about half a cup and make surer the nuts are chopped into small pieces. If you don’t like the walnuts, you can leave them out. Pour the orange mixture into the flour mixture and mix gently until everything is incorporated, don’t overmix the batter, juts until the lumps are gone.

Fold in the nuts if using and your batter will be ready. You will need your muffin tray and use liners or you can oil the cups and then pour in the batter. Use an ice cream scoop or spoons to fill the muffins about three-quarters full. Bake teg muffins in the oven for about 20 minutes and use a toothpick to check if the muffins are well baked before removing from the oven.

Leave the muffins in the pan for about 15 minutes until they are ready to be removed from the pan. Serve them with butter and a cup of coffee in the morning.

Ingredients;

  • 2 cups of all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • Zest two medium oranges, then juice then – you should get about 1 cup juice and 1 heaping tbsp of zest.
  • In a measuring cup, pour ⅓ cup vegetable oil, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 1 tbsp of orange zest, 2 large eggs, and 1 cup of orange juice.

Instructions;

  • Pour this mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients.
  • Stir gently until mixed. I folded in ½ cup chopped walnuts to the batter at the end.
  • If you don’t like nuts, you may leave them out of the recipe.
  • This recipe makes about 15 muffins so you’ll need two muffin pans.
  • You can use liners or oil the trays. Pour the batter using an ice cream scoop into each cup.
  • Bake in a 350 heated oven for 15 – 20 minutes. Check after 10 minutes and rotate the pans.
  • Check after 5 minutes and they are done if a toothpick inserted in a muffin comes out clean or with a few crumbs.
  • Do not overbake – my muffins were done in 15 minutes. Cool the pans on a rack.
  • They will come out easily with the help of an offset spatula – if you are not using liners.