Blood Orange Chocolate Muffins with Blood Orange Glaze
Blood Orange Chocolate Muffins
There are few morning treats better than a pastry fresh out of the oven. Nothing makes me happier than cooking or baking for the ones I love, especially when I am lucky enough to have someone as special as Diane who can cook like a badass too, so I know the favor will be returned. Even pre-cappuccino hour baking is looked upon with pleasure. Our occasional treat of a Strawberry Crossover is a delight to make, but it takes a bit of time. Muffins on the other hand are quick and easy.
Video: Making the Blood Orange Chocolate Muffins with a Blood Orange Glaze
Most of the year we’ll have lemons at the ready from the garden and they make a delightful muffin. But right now blood oranges are ripening by the pounds, so with a little twist a blood orange muffin recipe was born.
And who doesn’t love chocolate? Either with a nice dark chocolate chip or with a few chops of the knife to break up a dark chocolate bar into chunks, it is a perfect addition. Gently mix them into the batter and send to the oven for baking.
Soon the kitchen air will be warm and sweet, have a beautiful coffee or cappuccino, and share the chocolate oozing muffins with everyone the house. Not a bad way to start the morning.
-Todd
Blood Orange Chocolate Muffins with Blood Orange Glaze
Ingredients
Muffin Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups (275g) all-purpose Flour
- 1 cup (200g) Sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (6g) Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon (2g) Baking Soda
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher Salt
- grated Zest of 2-3 Blood Oranges
- 1/3 cup (80ml) Vegetable Oil or 1/2 cup (115g or 1 stick) melted Butter
- 1/2 cup (120ml) fresh Blood Orange Juice
- 2 teaspoons (10ml) Vanilla Extract
- 2 Eggs
- 6 ounces (170g) Dark Chocolate Chips or Chunks
Blood Orange Glaze
- 1-2 Tablespoons (15-30ml) fresh Blood Orange Juice
- 3/4 cup (90g) powdered sugar
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 375°F. Grease & flour muffin pan or line with baking cups.
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until well mixed.
- In a large bowl, combine oil or melted butter, blood orange zest, blood orange juice, vanilla extract and eggs. Mix until well combined. Fold in the dry mixture until just combined (important- do not overmix). Fold in the chocolate chips/chunks (for prettier muffins – reserve a handful of chocolate chips/chunks to place on top after filling the muffin cups). Divide between the muffin pan cups (a large cookie scoop works great for this step).(For bigger muffins, only fill 9-10 muffin pan cups, mounding the batter higher.)
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until lightly brown. Test with a toothpick to check center doneness (should come out clean unless it hits chocolate.) Allow to cool slightly.
- Make the glaze: Whisk together the blood orange juice and powdered sugar until smooth (for a thicker glaze use 1 Tablespoon blood orange juice – for a thinner but more blood orange flavor, use 2 Tablespoons of juice. You can also add fresh blood orange zest to the glaze to increase the blood orange flavor).
- Glaze the muffins. The cooler the muffins and longer the glaze sits, the firmer it becomes.
Video
Nutrition Information per Serving
Click Here for more More Blood Orange Recipes
More Blood Orange Ideas:
- Blood Orange Margarita – You must try this!
- Substitute blood orange for the Meyer Lemon in our Meyer Lemon Scones
- Smitten Kitchen’s Blood Orange Tart
This recipe was originally published in 2010 and re-published in 2021 with updated photos and new video.
They look fantastic – chocolate and orange is my favorite. How do you get the tops so nicely rounded? Mine always come out flat!
I need to find someone to make me breakfast. Or to do the dishes after I make breakfast. Preferably both.
Wow, these muffins look delicious!
And I thought those blood orange margaritas look good! I can’t wait to try these!
Citrus and dark chocolate…that is my hubby’s favorite combination! If I can still find the blood oranges here, I will definitely make these. The pictures are stunning.
“not a bad way?” How about “totally awesome”? 🙂 Granted, I still need to taste my first blood orange on my next trip to the states…
What a nice flavor combination Blood Oranges and Chocolate. I like the way the light reflects off of the orange, very nice.
Oh, these pictures send me into the bloody orange muffin craving like no other. Beautiful and scrumptious.
Although I’m not blessed with access to such a lovely bounty, I’m pleased you are since your inspiration leads to recipes like this darlin’. Delightful!
Wow, now that is my kind of muffin! Simply gorgeous!
Absolutely beautiful and what a great combination. I’ve never had blood orange and chocolates together. And they’re just very inviting.
Now this looks yummy… I like the blood orange glaze idea. Is it tangy enough without the zest? I can’t imagine it would be… not with the blood oranges I have sampled… but then, you grow your own, right? So, maybe.
The blood orange flavor is subtle even with the zest. I think we put so much chocolate in ours that it dominated the flavors. The glaze is where most of the blood orange flavor comes from.
Not at all a bad way to start a day! I’d love to see how the rest of the day went! yum!
Oh this is so the wrong post to read as you wake up… It’ll make me dream of chocolate and blood oranges for the rest of the day – and happily deadly it is! Thank you for the beautiful photos, recipe and post. You two are truly an inspiration.
Oh yum. These look and sound absolutely fabulous.
One question: how do you do this thing called “keeping chocolate in the house for such occasions”? Because whenever I try that it always seems to have disappeared by the time I need it for something.
Sasa- Lol! We always have secret stashes of chocolate hidden through out the house 😉