Easiest Way to Cook Yummy Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins

Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins.

You can have Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins

1. It's of For the Muffins.
2. It's 1/2 TBSP of orange zest.
3. Prepare 2 TBSP of freshly squeezed orange juice.
4. Prepare 50 g of good quality cocoa powder.
5. You need 100 g of dark muscavado sugar.
6. It's 250 ml of boiling water.
7. It's 125 g of unsalted butter, at room temperature.
8. It's 150 g of caster sugar.
9. It's 2 of large eggs.
10. It's 225 g of plain flour.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
12. You need 1/2 tsp of bicarbonate of soda.
13. Prepare 16 of mini Terry’s chocolate orange segments, chopped into chips.
14. Prepare of For the orange & cardamom buttercream.
15. It's 200 g of unsalted butter, softened.
16. You need 350 g of icing sugar.
17. Prepare of Zest & juice from half large orange.
18. Prepare 6 of cardamom pods, seeds crushed and ground.
19. It's of To decorate.
20. It's 16 of mini Terry’s Chocolate Orange segments.

Gooey Chocolate Orange Muffins instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 180 degrees fan. Place the cocoa powder, 100g dark muscavado sugar and orange zest and juice in a large bowl. Pour in the boiling water and whisk until well mixed. Set aside to cool..
2. Beat the butter and caster sugar together in a large mixing bowl, ideally using a free standing mixer or electric whisk. Beat in each egg one at a time, mixing each egg for around 2 mins each..
3. Add the flour, baking powder and bicarb and fold in very gently so as not to knock the air out..
4. Slowly incorporate the cocoa/orange mixture into the batter until well incorporated..
5. Pour this beautifully chocolatey mixture into the muffin cases. Place the terry’s chocolate orange pieces into each case, dividing it up equally..
6. Place into the oven and bake for 15-18 minutes. Or until a skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a rack..
7. Next, make the buttercream. Beat together the butter and icing sugar until smooth. Add the crushed cardamom pods seeds, orange juice and orange zest and beat well..
8. Once the cakes are completely cool, pipe the buttercream on top, and place a whole mini Terry’s segment on each one to decorate..