Years ago my wife bought the mini muffin pan you see above. I actually laughed at her when she bought it... I thought that no one would ever want to eat "mini" muffins. How ironic that I am now using it to create my own mini muffins.
I needed to "zest" an orange to put in this recipe. I had no idea how to do this so I was off to the Internet once again on how to do something in the kitchen. A little scientific note here, the zest is created by separating the flavedo (skin) skin from the pith (white part) of the skin of the fruit. (My head hurts now). I had no idea what the "zester" was in the drawer (thanks Tina for showing me). It was pretty fun to do... shaving an orange bald!
After I got the zest off, I assembled all the other ingredients and made up the batter. Then I had to scoop the batter into the muffin pan. What a pain! I think the mini muffins are even more ridiculous because you have twice as much work for the same amount of muffins!
Off to the oven my pretties *cackle* *cackle*!
While the muffins were baking, I assembled the glaze to go on top of the muffins... glaze is supposed to use the juice from the oranges I had to zest earlier. Well, the draw back to that I found out was the fact that it is really hard to juice an orange that has been zested. The reason is that there is not enough skin left on the orange to keep it from falling apart. Next time I will juice the orange and then zest the remaining peel... I hope that works better!
After the muffins came out of the oven, the orange smell coming from them was wonderful... just add a little of the glaze over the muffins and left it soak in while they are still warm. Plate them up and get ready to chow down! Since they are mini, I think four is an appropriate serving. If you disagree... it's too late, I already ate them!
Up next are twice baked potatoes! Looking forward to "eating" with you again!
Mark
Yummo! They freeze well too - for those impromptu "tea parties" with a certain little girl.
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