The grab and go orange muffins are the perfect pep you need to get you in on the early days to work or study. These blender orange muffins in no way skip the moist fluffy muffin part. Try out this refreshing change to your morning routine.
Half of our week starts very early for school, uni or work. This literally gives us less than 20 to 30 minutes from getting up to go time. This means the grab and go style ideas will keep us in the happy zone than tipping us to hangry. There are three or four muffin recipes I rely on for this grab and go days.
Savory veggie loaded cheese muffin
Perfect chocolate almond muffins
Classic banana oatmeal muffins
And this blender orange muffin.
Since these recipes are not only easy but hide fruit or veggies, pairing them with a smoothie or a warm drink makes morning breakfast easy. In the packable form, the muffins are mess-free to stay for a snack too.
Ingredients and vegan substitutions
Oranges- the navel oranges are the ones I use for making these muffins. Mandarins are ok, but much more juicier so a bit harder to control the liquid content. I haven’t experimented with the other varieties. If you do so, let me know in the comments.
Eggs- eggs are essential in this blender muffin to lift the batter. My experience with flax eggs was not the best in these orange muffins. If you manage to get a light and fluffy muffin with the egg, share the idea as a lot of our readers will benefit.
Butter I love the smell of muffins with butter in the morning. The recipe will work well with olive oil too I have successfully tried it.
Flour -for these blender muffins, I gave used sprouted whole wheat flour. You can use plain flour, millet flour (with a tbsp of corn starch) or plain whole wheat flour.
Sweetener
Let’s get some muffins done
The hack is pretty simple, blend all the wet ingredients into a smooth paste. Add the flour and pulse till just mixed.
Scoop and bake. It can’t get simpler. Before you start check out the tips and tricks to get the blender orange muffins perfect.
Blender orange muffins for grab and go breakfast
Equipment
- Muffin tin
- baking oven
- mixing bowls and spoons.
Ingredients
Wet mix
- 1 large orange
- 3 medium eggs
- 1 stick butter (mine said it weighed 110 grams)
- 1 cup sugar i used unrefined sugar
Dry mix
- 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes
- Wash clean and chop up the orange into bits.
- Remove the seeds and set it aside.
- Crack the eggs and add them into the blender
- Add the chopped oranges, melted butter and sugar.
- Blend till this is well mixed up. blend further to a smooth paste.
- Add the whole wheat flour, baking soda and baking powder to the mix in the blender
- Gently pulse at short intervels till they combine
- Line the muffin tray with muffin cups and spray them to prevent sticking.
- Pour in a scoop of the muffin batter into the cups.
- Bake the muffins at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. ( this can vary a bit based on the oven. Check with a skewer till it comes out clean after the 15 minutes)
- Once done remove the muffin tray from the oven and cool for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Ornage muffins are now ready to eat
- Onec they are completely cooled muffins and store them in airtight boxes
Notes
Tips to get the perfect blender muffin
As much as blender muffins are a convenience, the muffins can end up as a hard lump in no time. Hope my pointers below help you to fix this situation.
Blending the muffin mix – with blender muffins, it is easy to overmix the batter. So once you add the dry mix, just pulse till it looks combined and the muffin will turn out soft.
Dry muffins- you certainly don’t want there. The biggest issue is the ratio between the wet mix vs the dry mix. Use evenly sized juicy navel oranges.
The dry crust on the muffins- These muffins get done really fast. So based on your oven temperature adjust the timings slightly and check with a skewer. If the skewer comes out clean when poked into the muffin and withdrawn, your muffin is done, remove from the oven and cool.
Perfect grab and go partners
Strawberry lassi smoothie- if that morning is going to be a long one, add in a strawberry lassi to add some good nutrition to your body. Try the mango version if it is mango season.
Hot mint chocolate- a bite of the orange muffins with the hot chocolate creates the feeling of jaffa cakes. That’s something I love when I have chocolate with oranges.
If you are a tea lover, try out the hibiscus flower tea made with fresh flowers.
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Seema, I noticed that you’ve chopped the orange and added it to the batter. Doesn’t the white part of the orange make the muffins bitter? If not, I would love to bake them,
Hi Mayuri, the ease of this blender muffin is in the fact that you use a whole orange. The pith of navel oranges will not be bitter when you bake this muffin, in fact, you won’t even notice it was the whole orange. However, I will not try the same with mandarins, grapefruit or tangerines even if they are edible. I have been baking this for many years now, and shared it with friends and family, so trust and take a deep dive.
Orange muffins have a very refreshing taste and the freshness lingers in the mouth for a while which I relish. They r perfect to just grab and go on busy days !!
Even I had the same question as Mayuri. Thanks for the reply. My oranges season will start later so bookmarked thus yum blender oranges muffin. I love it.
Muffins are such a versatile snack to pack them up in a snack box of a grab n go breakie. Bet the house smelt heavenly when u made these 🙂 again, I wish I was I was ur neighbour Seema
Orange muffins are a saviour when you have breakfast on the go. Can’t wait to try this blender version. Good to know that adding whole orange does not make it bitter. Lovely muffins Seema.
Preethi, the blender muffins are one of the easiest snacks you can keep making. The navel oranges do not have the bitter flavour when baked whole. I don’t recommend mandarin or other varieties of ranges in this .
Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe. I will tell my mom to try this recipe. Keep sharing such great recipes with us.
Pankaj, I am sure your mum will love it if you make some for her too. The recipe is perfectly simple for a beginner, so give it a try and show her you can have a good treat too.