Lots of rapidly aging oranges + dwindling bag of chocolate chips (due to my inability to stop eating handfuls of them as a fake dessert/snack) + hankering for real desserts = opening every cookbook in my house to find something to make use of these two ingredients! I initially thought I would just find a recipe that could serve as a good base for the orange and the chocolate chips, but not a recipe that would actually be built around them.
Enter the Gourmet Cookbook and its recipe for Orange Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting. The cupcakes were incredibly easy to make, and hot out of the oven, they tasted like those delicious holiday orange flavored chocolates — a wonderful, unexpected bonus! I omitted the chocolate frosting — too much additional work that would have prevented me from consuming several cupcakes once they had barely cooled from baking. By skipping the chocolate frosting, I also convinced myself that I could call them "muffins" and therefore eat them for breakfast as well.
A modified version of the recipe can be found online here.
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