These orange berry muffins are the perfect snack for before you go to gym. Or after training. Or even just because you feel like it.
Take a look at this inspiring recipe for ♥ Orange Berry Muffins ♥ from Lavender and Lime #LavenderAndLime Share on X
This month for The Secret Recipe Club, I was assigned Christine’s Kitchen Chronicles. Christine’s real life job is as an engineer and she comes from a family of cooks. Even though she only started cooking at college, you can find a lot of diverse recipes on her blog. Christine’s dog Toby looks like it would be right at home in my kitchen as well! Christine still has Africa on her list of places to visit so I hope she will appreciate having a South African on her list of visitors to her blog. In choosing my recipe I clicked on the American tag as this is one type of cuisine I don’t do much of. I chose the chicken and roasted root vegetable pot pie after much searching through all her recipes. This used up some of my leftover pastry as my freezer needs a good clean out. I also adapted the recipe to suit our palates and our diet. It was only when I went onto my own blog to see how long to cook the pastry for that I saw I had already posted a recipe for chicken pot pie, and it was a SRC reveal recipe as well. Please pop in to see this recipe as I can really recommend it. The gravy is truly awesome. I used chicken stock as my poaching liquid and my choice of vegetables were butternut, carrots and fennel bulb. If I do this again I am going to blind bake the bottom layer of pastry first to make it extra crunchy.
So, with half a day left of leave I knew I had the time to make a second recipe. I decided to make muffins as this is something we can eat at work for a lunchtime treat. As we both train quite extensively we need something to get us through the gym sessions. I chose the orange berry muffins as I did not think it would be a problem getting buttermilk, and I had one orange in the fridge that needed to be used up, as well as some frozen berries which I purchased for a photo prop. Sadly, our local store did not have buttermilk but I decided to make them using yoghurt and see how they turned out. They were super moist and stayed fresh the entire week. This will be a must have recipe to work with for me and I will make variations during the year to keep us well fed before gym.
Do you eat before exercising?
Orange Berry Muffins
Ingredients
- 75 g fructose
- 265 g flour
- 12.5 mls baking powder
- 1.25 mls bicarbonate of soda
- 1.25 mls fine salt
- 130 g frozen berries
- 1 orange, zest and 125mls juice
- 115 g plain yoghurt
- 2 eggs
- 45 mls honey
- 120 g butter, melted and cooled
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180° Celsius
- Line a muffin tray
- Put the fructose, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a large bowl
- Using a spoon, gently mix in the berries
- Place the orange zest and juice into a measuring bowl
- Make up to 250mls with the yoghurt
- Whisk in the eggs one at a time
- Whisk in the honey and butter
- Pour the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients
- Mix in gently with a spoon until the flour is just combined
- Divide the batter evenly into the muffin tray
- Bake for 25 minutes until the tops are golden and a cake tester comes out clean
- Transfer the pan to a rack and cool for 5 minutes before carefully removing each muffin
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What I blogged:
- one year ago – Friday’s Food Quiz Number 21
- two years ago – Something Savoury Challenge To Use Chillies And A Give Away
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I love those muffins!! Yummy!
Thank you Zirkie 🙂
Those muffins sound delicious. Got to try them out.
Please let me know if you do 🙂
What great flavors! This muffins would make a great pre or post workout treat. I usually just have a banana.
I also usually just have a banana so I’m thinking banana flavoured ones next will be great 🙂
I am going to make these muffins IMMEDIATELY. It is bitterly cold and blowing a gale to boot so muffins are exactly what i need PLUS the fruit in them will cheer me up no end. thank you tandy!! c
My pleasure! And the vitamin C will be good for you in the cold 🙂
Ooh, orange and berry muffins sound fabulous.
🙂 Mandy xo
They were divine!
What a great photo of the chicken pot pies!
Thank you, hopefully tomorrow I can upload the muffin one 🙂
These muffins look quite heavenly my friend, loving them 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Wish the photo would upload! Have a good day Uru 🙂
These muffins sound really good! Those individualized pot pies look amazing & that pastry is looking fabuliscious too!
Welcome back, my dear friend!
Thank you dear Sophie 🙂
Hi Tandy!
The muffin recipe sounds good, the potpie picures looks amazing!
Thank you so much Veronica 🙂
Great muffin recipe idea, Tandy. Lovely to see you back here, even if you still have a few problems. Yum…..those chicken pot pies look scrumptious. 🙂
They were so good and Dave had them while I was away 🙂
Hi Tandy! I definitely feel honored knowing a South African has graced my blog :). If I ever get the chance to go, I’ll have to get tips from you!
I’m so glad that you enjoyed not 1 but 2 of the recipes on my blog. These are both wonderful picks and I’m realizing now that I really have quite the eclectic collection of recipes on my blog which your picks demonstrate haha!
The gravy was super! And I loved the muffins 🙂 let me know if you ever do come to South Africa 🙂
Sounds delish!
Thank you 🙂
I absolutely LOVE these! Delish and making soon. Glad to be part of SRC with you!
thanks for the visit Lisa, and do let me know what you think of them!
Orange zest adds a special “something” to so many recipes. Great SRC recipe choice to share.
thank you for visiting, I love zesting all citrus fruits for that extra zing 🙂
Tandy, your chicken pot pie looks fabulous…and the orange berry muffins sounds delicious.
Have a great week!
Thank you Juliana 🙂
I am pinning this to my must try recipes.
Thank you! And I’m sure you will love them 🙂
This looks yummy!
Thank you Asmita 🙂
the recipe for orange and berry muffin looks divine
Thank you Usha 🙂
Your muffins sound delicious. Welcome home…I know you enjoyed time with your family.
I did indeed. It was bittersweet spending time with them. I’m glad to be home though 🙂
That photo looks amazing Tandy. My kids love pot pies.
thank you Tammy, with the right lighting and time on my side my photos are getting better. Dave ate the pot pies while I was away and he loved them 🙂
I love the combination or orange and berries! I’ve not made muffins in quite awhile; looks like thhis will be a great recipe to try!
please do try and let me know what you think!
Tandy, the muffins sound delicious – we often sub milk + yoghurt for buttermilk – and your pies look absolutely amazing!
Thanks Celia, I must bake with yoghurt more often as it is so good for you 🙂
Yum – lots of lovely zingy flavours!
they were very zingy 🙂
Hola Tandy, first happy 2013, your new page looks beautiful, congratulations…..I love muffins, looks delicious, have a good week, saludos from Spain!
Hola Katya. Thank you for the compliment. Have a super day! Tandy 🙂