it's yummy! i substituted the chocolate with chocolate chips. i couldn't find buttermilk so plain yogurt was the next best alternative. however i couldn't taste the orange i could smell the orange from the oven but it was lost in my mouth. therefore i plan to add orange extract the next time. awesome muffins. i baked it for valentines and my frens loved it. thanks!
Tops! A light subtle flavor with touches of chocolate suspended throughout the cake. Very subtle and sophistocated. I used butter instead of margarine and cooked miniature muffins. Each morsel is a gourmet's delight. The combination of chocolate/orange makes it a little tricky to identify the flavor. Enhances its gourmet mystery.
instead of using grated chocolate i used the cocoa powder conversion of three squares. also i used the one bowl method where i dumped everything in and mixed it up real good. they still came out great! with very little effort i got muffins that were very chocolatey with just the right amount of orange flavor.
We liked these muffins very much. I have a food processor so the grating of chocolate was a snap but I could see it would be time consuming if grating by hand! I thought the orange and chocolate flavors blended well and for those who would want more orange flavor I would suggest adding a bit more of the orange zest that really brings the flavor out! Thanks for a nice muffin recipe to add to my collection.
To get more orange taste I added a few drops of orange extract and it was absolutly delicious
Either I did something wrong or the other reviews were written by the cook's relatives! First of all I found it very tedious to grate all that chocolate. The muffins turned out flat greasy & the texture was kind of mealy. I used butter instead of margarine and fresh squeezed orange juice because I thought it would have more orange flavor but it didn't. Don't know what went wrong but considering the work involved in making them I wouldn't bother to make them again.
This was a big let down. Did not care for them at all. Not enough orange flavor and not at all what you thought they were going to taste like. Yuck.
Thanks a lot for this recipe this was the first muffin I ever made and turned out to be the best one in my whole life... so easy to follow.. I used chocolate chips instead and it worked out fantastic. thanks again
Excellent tasting but dry and dense. Take out of oven sooner and use honey in recipe instead of sugar.
