Orange Muffin with Sweet Sauce

With this simple muffin recipe by Pierre Herme – world renowned French pastry chef – you can make the best orange muffin with sweet orange sauce imaginable! Delicious cupcake for tea! Try it too!

Summary

Ingredients

• Oranges – 2 pcs.
• Eggs – 3 pcs.
• Cream 10% – 95 g
• Butter – 50 g + for greasing the mold
• Flour – 180 g + for sprinkling the mold
• Sugar – 240 g
• Salt – 1 pinch
• Baking dough – 5 g
• Potato starch – 1 teaspoon

Instructions

1. Melt the butter and cool. Turn on and preheat the oven.
   Beat 3 eggs with 200 g of sugar until fluffy.
2. Add the zest of 2 oranges. Pour in 95 g of cream (10%). Add a pinch of salt.
3. Beat for 2 minutes.
4. Add 180 g sifted flour, 5 g (1 teaspoon) baking powder.
5. Mix.

   

6. Add 50 g melted butter (NOT HOT). Mix.
7. Pour the dough into a pan greased with butter and sprinkled with flour.
8. Bake the orange muffin in the oven preheated to 160 ° C for 50-60 minutes.

   

9. Pour freshly squeezed juice of 2 oranges into a saucepan, add 40 g of sugar and 1 teaspoon of potato starch.
10. Put on fire and stir until sugar dissolves and orange sauce thickens (1-2 minutes).
11. Make punctures on the surface of the finished orange cake with a toothpick. Pour orange sauce over the muffin.
12. Orange muffin with sweet sauce can be garnished with orange slices.