I love chocolate muffins, but I can’t have most of them because of my dairy-allergy!  So I made these chocolate and orange muffins using really good quality dark chocolate and dairy-free spread.  Adding orange makes these muffins really moist and yummy.

You’ll need:

• 2 and a half cup flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• ½ tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 cup of brown sugar
• ½ cup of cocoa powder
• 1 cup of small, dark chocolate pieces
• 2 oranges
• 4 Tbsp butter or margarine melted
• ¾ cup of  almond milk or orange juice
• 2 eggs

How to make the muffins:

1. Preheat the oven to 190°C.
2. Mix the flour is mixed with baking powder, cinnamon, salt, cocoa powder and sugar.
3. Add the chocolate pieces.
4. In another bowl,  mix the milk, butter and eggs.
5. Grate the orange zest. Add this to the mixture. Remove the white membrane of the flesh and cut the flash into small chunks. Add to the wet mixture.
6. Mix the wet mixture with the dry one.
7. Lone  a muffin tin with paper cups, then divide the batter between them.
8. Bake for about 20 minutes, then let them cool down on a wire rack.

Tips

• If you’re like me and don’t like “bits” in in your cake, blend the orange flesh and orange juice in a small food processor, the mix with the egg and butter.
• You can use muffin silicon moulds and motifs if you have them!