Orange Date Muffins
Orange Date muffins are the sticky toffee pudding of breakfast time. Ready in about 30 minutes, they’re minimal effort for maximum satisfaction.
How’s isolation going? I’d like to quote a meme I saw on Facebook that captured it for me this week, “Home isolation has its ups and downs. One day you are flying high, cleaning the baseboards with a q-tip, and the next day you are drinking tequila and watching squirrels out the window. There’s no in between”. Of course I am heavily pregnant, so no tequila for me, but I have been cleaning with a q-tip and have been rocking back and forth between highly productive and hours on the couch with a bag of chips and The Great Canadian Baking Show.
If today is a ‘flying high day’ for you, you might want to try to make these muffins. I find that we are making a lot of comfort foods lately, you know foods from your childhood that make your feel all warm inside, or foods from the time before covid where you might have shared a meal with a friend, or simple foods with lots of butter. These muffins are so quick and easy to make and bring comfort, even if you have never had them before. It’s flavours are so intense because they are made with dates (imagine your favourite sticky toffee pudding) and a whole orange (fiber! healthy!). I don’t know where this recipe originated, I have a photocopy of a very stained cookbook page that I’ve kept in a plastic page protector for years.
Gather the wet ingredients to be blended. Make sure to wash the orange very well because it goes in the blender skin and all.
Sift together the dry ingredients.
Mix the wet and dry together and you’re ready to fill muffin cups.
20 minutes later you have these light, warm, sweet, orangy beauties. I ran out of muffin cups, so used parchment paper for my last two.
Ingredients
1 orange, cut into eights, seeds removed
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup chopped dates
1 egg
1/2 cup butter (at room temperature)
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
Muffin cup liners
Orange Date Muffins
Servings 12 muffins Time 30 minutes
Recipe unknown source
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
In a blender, liquify the orange slices, orange juice and dates.
Add egg and butter and blend to combine.
If a large bowl, sift the dry ingredients. If the wheat bran or germ doesn’t go through the sifter, add it to the dry ingredients.
Add the wet ingredients to the bowl of flour mixture, and stir to blend.
Add muffin liners to a muffin pan, and fill with muffin mixture.
Bake for 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Eat within a week or freeze for later.
