Orange Tea Muffins

I love visiting different tea rooms, they are always so much fun and have the greatest food. Our local tea room, always serves a little muffin with tea or on a luncheon plate. The little tea room muffins are my inspiration for this recipe. I have afternoon tea just about every afternoon, it is a time of rest, reflection and just a little quiet time that I look forward to enjoying everyday. I don't always have a special little treat, but these are one of the special treats that I have with my afternoon tea. It's exciting to share tea with you today, sure hope you enjoy it.

Orange Tea Muffins

Orange Tea Muffins

Miz Helen's Kitchen

Ingredients

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

2 sticks unsalted butter

1 cup buttermilk

2 eggs

Zest of 2 Oranges

1 teaspoon orange extract

Directions

In a electric mixing bowl, mix the butter and sugar until it becomes creamy

Add the eggs one at a time and mix until completely blended well

Add the Orange extract and mix well

Add the flour while mixing a little at a time until all the flour has been blended in

In a small bowl mix the buttermilk and the baking soda until the baking soda is dissolved

Add the buttermilk mix to the flour, butter, sugar and eggs mixture, stir until all the buttermilk has been blended in.

Add 3/4 of the Orange zest to the batter and mix well

Grease a mini muffin tin or a regular tin

Pour batter into the greased muffin tins

Bake 375 degrees for 12 to 14 minutes

Remove the baked muffins from the oven and leave in the tins for glazing.

Orange Glaze

Ingredients

Juice of 2 Oranges plus enough to equal 1 cup of Orange Juice

1 cup brown sugar

1/4 of the reserved orange zest from the cupcake recipe

Directions

In a saucepan mix the brown sugar and orange juice

Cook the mixture until it comes to a boil then remove it from the heat

Glaze the muffins in the baking tin while warm from the oven

Enjoy!

Print Recipe

Mix The Rich Batter

Glaze The Warm Muffins

For Some Reason I Just Always Put To Much Batter In The Tin Then It Has That Little Rim

In This Case It Turns Our Great Because The Muffin and The Rim is Soaked With Glaze, YUM!

Ready To Serve

Enjoy!

I sure am glad that you could come and have tea with me today, tea is always better when shared with a friend. Hope you have a fantastic week and come back real soon!

Peace and Joy

Miz Helen
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