Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins
This Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe makes a perfect treat for a weekend brunch, grab and go breakfast or after school snack. Best part? These are ready to go in less than 30 minutes!
If you like chocolate chip muffins, you will love my Classic Chocolate Chip Muffins and my Healthy Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins.
Recipe Summary: Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins
- ✅ Recipe Name: Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins
- 🕒 Ready In: 25 minutes
- 👪 Serves: 16 (easy to scale)
- 🍽 Calories: 243 per muffin
- 🥣 Main Ingredients: Navel oranges, OJ, all-purpose flour, chocolate chips, sour cream
- 📖 Dietary Info: Meal prep friendly, freezer friendly, kid-friendly, vegetarian
- ⭐ Why You'll Love It: You'll never buy another store-bought muffin again. Chocolate and orange flavor combo in these muffins is hard to beat!
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I know that orange and chocolate isn't everyone's favorite flavor combo. But as someone who grew up eating Terry's Chocolate Oranges, this has to be one of my favorite flavor combinations. If you are also as obsessed with this combo as I am, I would suggest you check out my Easy Chocolate Orange Cake recipe.
But these Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins are not only easy to make, they are freezer friendly, making them an easy grab-and-go breakfast idea. For more easy grab-and-go breakfast muffins, try my Cranberry Orange Scones or my Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins.
Key Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- Flour: this recipe uses both all purpose flour and almond flour. This helps keep the chocolate chips suspended in the muffin batter when it is baking.
- Leavening agents: we will use both baking powder and baking soda in this muffin recipe. This helps the muffins rise and also give the muffins that nice golden brown color.
- Spices: I only add salt to this recipe, but you can also add ground cinnamon if you wanted a warmer taste.
- Sweetener: white sugar is used in this recipe, but if you have orange sugar that would be an excellent replacement.
- Mix-ins: semi-sweet chocolate chips are what I use, but I also love using rich dark chocolate chips instead.
Wet Ingredients
- Fresh orange: both the orange zest and the fresh orange juice is used in this recipe. It is important to use both as it gives these muffins a more fresh orange flavor, just like in my Orange Muffins recipe.
- Dairy: unsalted butter and sour cream are what I use in this recipe, but you could easily use salted butter and Greek yogurt instead.
- Eggs: I use large eggs, but you could also make flax eggs if you wanted an egg free version.
- Extract: I put vanilla extract in all of my baked goods, but almond extract would work here too.
How To Make Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Step 1: In a medium bowl, combine the all purpose flour, almond flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Step 2: In a large bowl, mix together the white sugar and the orange zest until combined.
- Step 3: Mix in the orange juice, eggs, vanilla and melted butter until combined. Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Step 4: Line a muffin pan with paper liners. Divide the batter among the lined muffin cups and bake in the oven at 400°F for 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins Expert Tips
Storage: Store any leftover orange chocolate muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
For fluffy muffins: Make sure you don't overmix your batter! I still remember when I was in my Cooking class in grade 8 the teacher said that overmixing will create cone shaped and tough muffins. You only need to mix until just combined.
What type of oranges to use: I prefer Navel oranges since they are easy to come by, but using a Cara Cara or Blood Orange would work well too. My Ninja Creami Cara Cara Orange Sorbet is an example of where Cara Cara oranges can shine.
Add some coarse sugar. If you want a more bakery style muffin, add some coarse sugar on top of the muffins, just like in my Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Muffins. If you wanted a more caramelized top, try topping the muffin batter with either coconut sugar or brown sugar before baking.
Skip the paper liners. My toddler often accidentally eats the paper liners, so I will instead spray the muffin tin with non-stick spray before scooping the batter into it. While this does take a lot longer to clean, at least my small children aren't eating paper.
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Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup orange zest (from 2 large oranges)
- ½ cup fresh orange juice (from 2 large oranges)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- ⅓ cup sour cream
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400℉. Line muffin tins with 16 paper liners and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the all purpose and almond flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl, mix together the sugar and orange zest until fully combined. Mix in the orange juice, eggs, vanilla, butter and sour cream.
- Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly into the prepared muffin tins and bake in the preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Notes
- Do not overmix the batter! A few lumps is perfectly fine, and will actually produce softer and fluffier muffins.
- When zesting the orange, avoid the white pith as that can cause the muffins to be more bitter.
- Storage: You can store the muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days.
- Freezing: You can freeze these muffins for up to 3 months. When freezing, place cooled muffins in a freezer bag and try to remove as much air as possible. When you are ready to eat them, thaw at room temperature or microwave for 20-30 seconds before serving.
- These muffins are especially delicious served slightly warm, when the chocolate chips are soft and melty.
This muffin recipe is one of my go-to recipes when I have some oranges to use up. It's seriously so easy to make too!