Not So Bad Orange Muffins

As the name implies, these orange muffins are not so bad after all😄

Absolutely no butter, no eggs and no milk and mildly sweetened with light brown sugar and the sweetness from the orange juice. Ooohh, doesn't it sound so good.... I know! These days everyone is conscious of what they are eating.. This doesn't mean we don't get to eat all the yummy dessertz. Of course we can👍

Now let's jump into the recipe..... Gather the following ingredients and let's get started!

Makes 16 muffins

1 1/4 cups All Purpose Flour

3/4 cup Whole Wheat Flour

1 1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Baking soda

1/2 tsp Salt

1/3 cup Canola oil

3/4 cup light brown sugar

3/4 cup yogurt

1 cup orange juice

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 tbsp orange zest

First, mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl. Please note that I did not not sift the flour in this recipe.

Then in a separate bowl, mix the oil, brown sugar and yogurt until all of them are perfectly blended into a creamy mixture.

Now add the orange juice and the vanilla extract and mix again. Add the dry ingredients little by little into the wet ingredients and keep mixing until you get a creamy batter. Don't over mix!! Now sprinkle the orange zest and mix gently.

Remember that we have added whole wheat flour in this recipe. Our batter will be a bit thin when compared to other muffin batters because of the one cup of orange juice that we have added. This makes the muffin soft.

Take a muffin pan and line them up with muffin cups. Grease them with canola oil cooking spray. Fill 3/4 of the muffin cups with the batter.

Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for 5 minutes.

Then reduce the temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and bake for about 15 minutes or until the tooth pick poked in the center of a muffin comes out clean.

Look how soft and fluffy these muffins are 😋😋..

What next??? Enjoy these "Not So Bad Orange Muffins" for breakfast or a tea time snack 😉😋

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