I’m continuing to catch up on past completed recipes before I joined up with the Tuesdays with Dorie group.

Last week on my Blast from TWD post, I made the very first recipe ever chosen. This week, I decided to make the very first recipe in the book. Which brings us to these Orange Berry Muffins that were originally selected by Chelle of Sugar & Spice for the week of January 29th, 2008.

You don’t even have to break out the mixer for these. The recipe tells you to separate your liquid and dried ingredients first and then mix together later, but I just dumped everything in a bowl and stirred together at the same time. I did this partly because I used dried orange zest and buttermilk and partly because I was lazy.

At the 10 minute mark I added decorating sugar. I strongly believe that muffins are made 1000 times better by adding decorating sugar on top because I am a huge fan of texture differences. And extra sugar.

I thought the muffins were good. It’s a shame my boyfriend was out of town because he really would’ve liked these too.  The orange flavor is subtle, which I liked. Every Dorie recipe that I’ve tried so far I would make again and these muffins are no exception. I’m actually really impressed. For me, Dorie is to baking what Ina Garten is to cooking. You know whatever recipe of theirs you make will turn out good.

My cat struck again and ate part of the top off of one of the muffins while I wasn’t looking. He seemed to like them too. But he did NOT like getting in trouble. No sir. Oh well, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, right?

Orange Berry Muffins recipe can be found in Dorie Greenspan’s Baking From My Home to Yours on page 3. And that’s it for this installment of the TWD catch up posts. I’m not sure what I’ll make next but check back soon to see.  I think I’ve gotten all the easier recipes completed at this point.  Five down, only twelve more to go….  :)