Chocolate Orange Dessert Muffins - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/3 cups self-rising flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/3 cups sugar
8 tbsp (1 stick) butter, melted
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 None egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp Grand Marnier
2 tsp grated orange peel
12 None chocolate orange thins
None None FOR THE CUSTARD SAUCE
4 None egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
1 2/3 cups milk

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 400\u00b0F. Grease 12-cup muffin pan.
Sift flour, cocoa powder and sugar into large bowl. Stir in butter, buttermilk, egg, liqueur and orange peel. Spoon into prepared pan. Break each chocolate into 3 or 4 pieces. Push chocolates into muffin, make sure that chocolate does not touch sides of muffin pan and that batter almost covers the chocolate.
Bake about 20 mins. Cool in pan 5 mins. Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.
For the custard sauce, beat egg yolks and sugar in medium bowl with an electric mixer until thick and pale. Bring milk just to a boil in a small saucepan. Whisk hot milk into yolk mixture. Return mixture to pan. Stir on medium-low heat, without boiling, until mixture thickens and coats back of spoon.
Garnish muffins with orange sections, if desired. Serve with custard sauce.