Fluffy Orange Raisin Muffins
The best fluffy orange raisin muffins, are the kind of muffins you want to nosh on while you sip your morning coffee, or as a snack between your daily meals.The taste of these fluffy muffins are heavenly,raisin and orange are absolute perfection together. I’ve been dreaming about today’s muffins since I posted this particular Raisin orange cake recipe last year. I’ll assure you, you will fall in love with these muffins, and will make them Repeatedly.
How to Bake Tall Muffins?
The secret of making a tall muffins is giving these muffins an initial blast of high heat and then reducing the temperature helps create those beautifully domed, tall muffins.
Simply bake the muffins for 8 minutes at 220°C/ 425°F and then, keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the heat to 180°C/ 365°F for the remainder of the baking time.
What ingredients you need to make Orange raisin muffins? (full recipe below)
- Flour
- Butter
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Vanilla
- Baking powder
- Orange juice
- Raisin
How to make orange raisin muffin?
- Cream butter with sugar, add eggs one at a time. Whisk until combined.
- Sift dry ingredients together, add it with orange juice to the batter.
- Mix all together until smooth cake batter.
- Toss raisin in flour, add it to muffin batter and give it a quick mix with spatula.
- Fill muffin liners with the batter.
- Bake it and enjoy it.
What makes Orange raisin muffins light and fluffy?
Having all ingredients as eggs, orange juice and butter at room temperature helps your muffins puffs, and making a smooth muffin batter that traps air and expands when heated in the oven. That expansion makes your muffins fluffy and light. Also you can add one teaspoon of apple cider viniger which will work as a nutural baking improver.
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Fluffy Orange Raisin Muffins
Ingredients
- 100g Soft Butter
- 1/2 cup Sugar (110g)
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract or powder
- 1 and 3/4 cup All purpose flour
- 1 Tablespoon Baking powder
- 1/2 Cup orange juice
- 1 Tablespoon orange zest
- 1/2 Cup raisin
Instructions
- Cream butter with sugar then add the eggs, one at a time with vanilla.
- Whisk until smooth eggs buttery batter.
- Sift flour with baking powder, add all the amount to the eggs batter.
- Add the orange juice, whisk all together until smooth muffin batter.
- Toss raisin with 1 teaspoon of flour until flour cover the raisin.
- Add orange zest with the raisin to the muffins batter, mix the batter with spatula just to spread the raisin in the batter.
- With an ice cream scoop, fill the muffin liners with the muffin batter.
- Bake for 25 minutes at 180°C . For a tall muffins, bake first at 220°C/420°F for 8 minutes then reduice the heat to 170°C/350°F for another 15 minutes.
- Cool on a wire rack.
- Enjoy!
