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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Blender Date-and-Orange Muffins

Here’s another weekend morning treat! The texture and flavor of these muffins is nothing short of outstanding.
Blender Date-and-Orange Muffins:

1 large whole orange, including skin and pith
½-c. orange juice
1 large egg
½ c. butter or margarine 
½ c. pitted dates (see Note)
1-½ c. white flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
¾ c. sugar
¾ tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 400 deg. F. Wipe orange skin with a clean, dry cloth. Cut orange into eighths, removing seeds. Blenderize very thoroughly with orange juice, egg, and butter or margarine. Drop in dates, a few at a time, continuing to blend until coarsely chopped. In a separate bowl, add flour, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt, combining thoroughly. 
Make a well in the dry ingredients. Pour in blenderized ingredients, stirring just until moistened (Over-mixing will toughen muffins). Bake 15-20 min. in ungreased paper liners in muffin cups. Yields 1 dozen standard-sized muffins.
Note: Dates are the perfect complement for orange, but I didn’t have any. Instead, I added dried blueberries as I poured the wet ingredients into the flour mixture. Stirring in fresh blueberries would have turned these muffins an unattractive purple. Whenever you add fresh berries to muffins, drop (rather than stir) them in.

Buzz moist ingredients


Spoon into greased muffin papers

Serve fresh from the oven

4 comments:

  1. Thank you Nicole for this delicious recipe. I've added 1C Bran & 1/3 C molasses to mine & it's very yummy! Love the tiny bursts of orange this has! đź‘Ś

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  2. I love these muffins! They' re so easy to make, as well. Your additions sound interesting, too. Are you referring o bran flakes or bran cereal?

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  3. The bran comment comes from another reader - not me. If I were doing this, I'd add bran flakes rather than cereal. I haven't tested the April comment, but it definitely sounds good - Nicole

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  4. I have made these entirely in a food processor to save on washing up !
    Blitz sugar oranges first. Than add choped dates and blitz . Then add other wet ingredients (I substitute butter for oil) and blitz fully. Then add combined dry ingredients and pulse until just combined.
    Works like dream and the children love them despite there dislike of dates, which is why I blitz them and just call them orange muffins !

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