I prepared these vegan orange muffins without much expectation. I decided to try them because I had some oranges that I wanted to use.
I prepared them yesterday late afternoon for breakfast today. The recipe resulted in 11 orange muffins and now, less than 24 hours after, there are only three of them… and my son isn’t home and so we are in three at home. Repeating my daughter’s words, they’re “light, tasty and satisfy our sweet tooth”.
I’m becoming more and more addicted to olive oil recipes. They are really lighter and I like the feeling of eating healthy ;-).
I found this recipe in this Italian blog post written by Francesca Quaglia, and I changed a few things. I used brown sugar and chopped the hazelnuts. Enjoy :-D!
- 2 cups of all purpose flour
- ⅔ cup of brown sugar
- a pinch of baking soda
- 2 tsp of baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- ½ cup of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup of orange juice
- 2 Tbsp of orange zest
- 3 Tbsp of chopped hazelnuts
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F.
- In a bowl put the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and chopped hazelnuts. Mix it all until well combined.
- In another recipient put the orange juice together with the extra virgin olive oil.
- Prepare the muffin molds.
- Mix the oil and juice with the dry ingredients only the necessary to mix both parts and pour it into the molds.
- Bake for about 20 minutes or until colored.
- Buon appetito!
great recipe. The muffins came out moist and tasty – good way to use extra oranges. I added a little more orange as the first time I did it was not orange-y enough. When I split recipe in half, I get only four muffins but maybe yours are smaller?
Great recipe! I made these today and they came out looking so good and are so yummy! For me the mixture turned out much too thick before putting them into the muffin tray, so I had to add some extra liquid and after that they were awesome 🙂
So glad to know that, Jess! Thank you for writing! 🥰