Easiest Way to Cook ❣ Yummy Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins Recipes 🍮 by Julia Child

Making Recipes Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins using 20 ingredients and 8 steps

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➽ For the Muffins.
➽ 1/2 TBSP orange zest.
➽ 2 TBSP freshly squeezed orange juice.
➽ 50 g good quality cocoa powder.
➽ 100 g dark muscavado sugar.
➽ 250 ml boiling water.
➽ 125 g unsalted butter, at room temperature.
➽ 150 g caster sugar.
➽ 2 large eggs.
➽ 225 g plain flour.
➽ 1/2 tsp baking powder.
➽ 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda.
➽ 16 mini Terry’s chocolate orange segments, chopped into chips.
➽ For the orange & cardamom buttercream.
➽ 200 g unsalted butter, softened.
➽ 350 g icing sugar.
➽ Zest & juice from half large orange.
➽ 6 cardamom pods, seeds crushed and ground.
➽ To decorate.
➽ 16 mini Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments.

Preheat your oven to 180 degrees fan. Place the cocoa powder, 100g dark muscavado sugar and orange zest and juice in a large bowl. Pour in the boiling water and whisk until well mixed. Set aside to cool..
Beat the butter and caster sugar together in a large mixing bowl, ideally using a free standing mixer or electric whisk. Beat in each egg one at a time, mixing each egg for around 2 mins each..
Add the flour, baking powder and bicarb and fold in very gently so as not to knock the air out..
Slowly incorporate the cocoa/orange mixture into the batter until well incorporated..
Pour this beautifully chocolatey mixture into the muffin cases. Place the terry’s chocolate orange pieces into each case, dividing it up equally..
Place into the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes. Or until a skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack..
Next, make the buttercream. Beat together the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Add the crushed cardamom pods seeds, orange juice and orange zest and beat well..
Once the cakes are completely cool, pipe the buttercream on top, and place a whole mini Terry’s segment on each one to decorate..

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