These fresh orange muffins are made from orange juice, pulp and a good amount of orange zest which makes it absolutely scrumptious. It’s an easy recipe to put together.
Recipe and content Updated: 3rd June 2019
The 1st time I baked these fresh orange muffins recipe was almost 5 years ago. It was during my initial days of food photography and blogging. It was when my older one was 3 years old and I had to send some snacks to his school. The kids loved it and after that when I put it on the blog, it surprisingly became one of the top recipes and received good reviews.
Times have changed, from a novice blogger to a professional food photographer, the journey has been quite long and I hope it continues.
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These fresh orange muffins are made from orange juice, pulp and a good amount of orange zest which makes it scrumptious. It's an easy recipe to put together.
- Orange pulp from 1 big orange peel, remove seeds and inner membrane and puree
- 3/4 cup 180ml orange juice
- 1 egg + 1 yolk
- 2 tablespoons orange zest
- 1 and 1/2 stick butter 170g, at room temperature
- 1 and 1/4 cup 250g sugar
- 2 and 1/2 cup 300g all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- 4 tablespoons orange juice or as needed
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
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Preheat oven to 350 Degrees Celsius or 175 Degrees Fahrenheit. Spray or line a muffin tin with paper liners.
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Swift all purpose flour + baking powder + salt and keep aside.
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In a bowl, beat butter + sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and orange zest and beat well. Now add the orange pulp and juice and mix well. Add the flour in two to three batches and fold it in with a spatula. Do not over beat. Divide equally into 14 muffin cups or fill cups till 3/4th is full.
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Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean.
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Add a few tablespoons of orange juice to the confectioner's sugar few tablespoons at a time to make it into a pourable consistency. Drizzle over the muffins once it has cooled completely.
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Hi! Thanks for the recipe. Couple of questions: What do you mean by adding the orange pulp? Do you roughly chop it up or finely dice it? Do you need to remove all the inner membranes or not remove them at all? Could the pulp you add be from the orange you have already juiced, or should it be from another orange?
Looking forward to trying these. Thanks.
Hey Liz…I apologize for the late reply….I was in the middle of an international relocation. To answer you questions, I ran the peeled oranges through a mixer, I did remove the membranes coz it gives a bitter taste and the pulp I mentioned is from another orange.
I made these for the 2nd time today. Turned out as glorious as the first try. Indeed a super orangy muffin. Added some choc chips. Love the orange-choc combo. Thanks so much for this recipe. It’s one of my favourites now 🙂
I am honored 🙂 ….thank you so much for dropping in a wonderful feedback.
Thank you for the amazing recipe,I made these today and as you said they are as orangy an orange muffin can get.
I am glad to hear that the name matched the outcome :)…thanks a ton for leaving a feedback.
I had a lot of orange pulp left over from juicing so I adapted this recipe a bit and my grandkids scarfed the muffins down. Thanks.
Feedbacks like this keep you motivated….Thank you Diane:)….so glad your grandkids liked it.