If you love orange and dark chocolate together, these Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins are for you. A small sized muffin filled with semi sweet chocolate chips and orange zest for an undeniable delicious flavour combination.

One of my absolute favourite chocolates of all time, is Terry’s Chocolate Orange.  You know those chocolate balls of orange segments?  I could easily eat a whole one.  And since orange and chocolate go so well together, I thought why not add those flavours to a muffin. Much like my Orange Chocolate Chip Cookies, this is a recipe to file in favourites for the upcoming back to school season.

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What Are These Muffins Like

• Difficulty – These muffins are really easy to make and don’t use any unusual ingredients or baking methods. From start to finish they take just over half an hour.
• Taste – Incredibly moist and bursting with orange and chocolate chips. They have a light crumb and are a great size.
• Serving – This recipe makes 12 small sized muffins. In the recipe card at the end of the post you can easily adjust serving size.

Ingredients

• Flour – This recipe uses all purpose flour.
• Baking powder – Baking powder is used as a rising agent for the loaf.
• Salt – Regular table salt helps enhance the flavours.
• Butter – I used unsalted butter at room temperature.
• Sugar – Granulated white sugar is used in the loaf.
• Eggs – 2 large eggs at room temperature.
• Vanilla – Vanilla extract enhances flavours in this cake.
• Milk – I used whole milk for the muffins.
• Orange juice & zest – I used fresh orange zest and juice to give thees muffins a fantastic citrus flavour.
• Chocolate chips – Semi sweet chocolate chips worked great with the orange flavour in these muffins.

NOTE, The full recipe and ingredient list can be found at the end of the post in the recipe card.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven – Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease or line a 12 count medium muffin pan.
2. Combine dry ingredients – In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. Combine sugar with orange zest – In a small bowl, combine the sugar with the orange zest. Combine well with your fingers until it’s completely incorporated and set aside.
4. Mix sugar, butter and eggs – In the bowl of your electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in the vanilla extract.
5. Combine wet and dry ingredients – Sift in half of the flour and stir to combine. Stir in the milk with the orange juice and then the rest of the flour. Stir in the chocolate chips and incorporate well.
6. Bake muffins – Pour evenly into prepared muffin tins. Bake between 18 – 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
7. Serve and/or store – Cool on a wire rack. Best served the day they are made but will keep for up to two days in an airtight container.

Recipe Tips

• Use room temperature ingredients – Using room temperature ingredients you will get best results in baking muffins. Make sure to take the eggs and the butter out of the fridge before hand.
• Avoid over mixing – Over mixing dry ingredients into batter can often cause a really dense muffin texture. To get a lighter texture, try to just fold in the flour until it’s combined.
• Baking time – Baking time will vary for these muffins. Check them at about 18 minutes but they may take up to 20 minutes to bake. Muffins will be done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with a few crumbs.
• Muffin size – These are medium sized muffins, not big bakery type muffins. The muffin pans I used were medium.

Substitutions

Chocolate chips – I used semi sweet chocolate chips. You could use a mix of semi sweet mixed with milk chocolate if you like. Even white chocolate or peanut butter chips will work. You could also substitute chocolate chunks or mix in half with the chocolate chips.

Storage

• Storage – You can store these at room temperature, in the fridge or the freezer
  • In a container on the counter, this is how I usually keep them and they will keep up to three days
  • Store in the refrigerator, you will get them to about five days in the fridge. But I recommend taking them out of the fridge and letting them come to room temperature before eating them.
  • Keep in the freezer, up to a month. Make sure it’s a freezer proof container. Allow to defrost on the counter.

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Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins

If you love orange and dark chocolate together, these Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins are for you. A small sized muffin filled with semi sweet chocolate chips and orange zest for an undeniable delicious flavour combination.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Total Time30 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert

Cuisine: North American

Keyword: breakfast muffins, chocolate chip muffins

Servings: 12 muffins

Calories: 277kcal

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
• 1 Teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 Teaspoon salt
• 2/3 Cup sugar
• Zest of 2 oranges
• 1/2 Cup butter
• 2 Eggs
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla
• 3/4 Cups milk
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

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Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease or line a 12 count medium muffin pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a small bowl, combine the sugar with the orange zest. Combine well with your fingers until it's completely incorporated and set aside.
• In the bowl of your electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in the vanilla extract.
• Sift in half of the flour and stir to combine. Stir in the milk with the orange juice and then the rest of the flour. Stir in the chocolate chips and incorporate well.
• Pour evenly into prepared muffin tins. Bake between 18 – 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool on a wire rack. Best served the day they are made but will keep for up to two days in an airtight container.

*A note on times provided: appliances vary, any prep and/or cook times provided are estimates only.

Nutrition Facts

Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins

Amount Per Serving (1 muffin)

Calories 277 Calories from Fat 135

% Daily Value*

Fat 15g23%

Saturated Fat 9g56%

Trans Fat 0.3g

Polyunsaturated Fat 1g

Monounsaturated Fat 4g

Cholesterol 50mg17%

Sodium 163mg7%

Potassium 148mg4%

Carbohydrates 32g11%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 18g20%

Protein 4g8%

Vitamin A 319IU6%

Vitamin C 3mg4%

Calcium 57mg6%

Iron 2mg11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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