Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins

Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, gooey chocolate orange muffins. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook gooey chocolate orange muffins using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins:

1. Prepare For the Muffins
2. Prepare orange zest
3. Make ready freshly squeezed orange juice
4. Get good quality cocoa powder
5. Prepare dark muscavado sugar
6. Take boiling water
7. Prepare unsalted butter, at room temperature
8. Prepare caster sugar
9. Take large eggs
10. Take plain flour
11. Make ready baking powder
12. Get bicarbonate of soda
13. Make ready mini Terry’s chocolate orange segments, chopped into chips
14. Take For the orange & cardamom buttercream
15. Take unsalted butter, softened
16. Take icing sugar
17. Make ready Zest & juice from half large orange
18. Make ready cardamom pods, seeds crushed and ground
19. Make ready To decorate
20. Make ready mini Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments

Instructions to make Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Add the flour, baking powder and bicarb and fold in very gently so as not to knock the air out.
4. Slowly incorporate the cocoa/orange mixture into the batter until well incorporated.
5. Pour this beautifully chocolatey mixture into the muffin cases. Place the terry’s chocolate orange pieces into each case, dividing it up equally.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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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