Orange and Chocolate Muffin

I promised my colleagues that I will bake for them. So i decided to bake them the lemon and popyseed muffin but then, although it would be a bit risky, I decided to try something new. I have been thinking about muffin variations and since I am a big fun of both citrus and chocolate I wanted to put together this two ingredients in muffin. I picked orange and googled for recipes on orange and choclate muffins. I will tell you how I search for recipes, I type my key words in Google image search and look at the pictures. If there is an artisan picture of the food I check the web site. So it is a trick I use to spot the artisan baking websites/recipes. However i couldn't manage to find one with loads of orange and minimum eggs, so i made up my own recipe.

Here is a bit information on the different types of muffins. Muffin originally refer to bread the muffin recipes given in this blog are usually american style muffins and they are yeast free. The English muffins are usually made with yeast and they tend to be thinner but wider usually disk shaped. The English muffins are spitted into two and served toasted they tend to resemble  light bread. The American style muffins are more like a cake and it comes in all different forms in sweet and savory.


Finally some fun-facts about muffins from wikipedia: The corn muffin is the official state muffin of Massachusetts. The blueberry muffin is the official state muffin of Minnesota. The apple muffin is the official state muffin of New York.

Here is the new member of our muffin family:

Ingredients: (yields 16-20 muffins)

• 4 cups of flour
• 2 eggs 
• 1/2 cups orange zest
• 1/4 cups orange juice
• 3/4 cups +1 tbsp soft brown sugar
• 1/4 cups granulated white sugar
• 1 cup +1/3 cups chocolate (i used 100 grams dark chocolate (70%) and 100 grams orange flavored chocolate) 
• 1+1/2 cups Greek yogurt 
• 4 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cups light olive oil 
• 1/2 cups coconut oil

Recipe:

1. Grade the skins of 6 small oranges finely (1/2 cups)
2. Chop the chocolates in small cubic pieces
3. Grease or line your muffin tin and set the oven to 180 C/ 375 F 
4. Crack the eggs in a bowl and beat heavily then add the orange zest keep beating add the brown sugar and keep beating then add the granulated sugar and whisk heavily (at this point you can use an electric  mixer that would make things a lot easier and quick)
5. Add the yogurt and keep whisking then add the oil to the liquid mixture. 
6. In another bowl mix the dry ingredients flour, chocolate, baking powder mix lightly.
7. Add the liquid mixture to the dry mixture mix lightly until the flour disappears.  
8. Spoon the mixture into the muffin tin and bake 15-30 mins depending on your oven.