Me: Who’s there?
Child: Banana!
Me: Banana who?
Child: Knock knock!
Me: Who’s there?
Child: Banana!
Me (said with a sob in my voice): Banana who?
Child: Knock knock!
Me: (as I bang my head off of a hard surface)Who’s there for petes sake!?
Child: Orange
Me: Orange who?
Child (giggling with extreme maniacal glee)Orange you glad I didn’t say Banana!?
In 25 years of motherhood, I have heard that knock knock joke approximately 5, 362 times. Add the 10,422 times I have heard Elephant jokes (ok, so I actually like those and routinely annoy people with them myself), fart jokes, pee jokes and jokes that make no sense whatsoever (Mommy, why did the…ummmm…the purple boy run across the street? Me- Why? Child- Because he wanted to eat a cookie! HAHAHAHAHA!!! Did you like that one momma!?) and it is a wonder I have any shred of sanity left.
When my son Jordan, who at sixteen has the childlike heart of an eight year old due to various mental disabilities he deals with, told me that joke for the 5,362nd time today, I laughed and groaned as my job description of mom demands I do, then I went back to thinking about todays post. I knew I wanted to make something sweet; surprise surprise, right? But I wasn’t sure what. Then the orange knock knock joke popped into my head at the same time as a serious chocolate craving hit me upside the head. So this is what I came up with for today. I hope you enjoy them. We did. 🙂 These are a moist dessert like muffin (not that that will stop me from eating them for breakfast!) bursting with orange flavor and dark chocolate chips.
Orange & Dark Chocolate Muffins
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup butter
- 1 6 ounce container orange yogurt
- 3/4 cup orange marmalade
- 2 teaspoons orange extract
- 1/2 cup thawed orange juice concentrate
- 3 large eggs
- 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 10 to 12 ounce bag dark chocolate chips (Nestle has some out now)
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line 22 muffin cups with paper liners (or grease really well but as we all know, I have a thing for making as little dirty dishes as humanly possible)
- Beat sugar and butter in a large bowl at medium high speed until light and fluffy. Add in the yogurt, marmalade, orange extract and juice. Beat until thoroughly blended. Beat in eggs, Again, beat until well blended.
- In a small bowl, mix together your flour, baking powder and salt. Pour it into the bowl of wet ingredients and mix with a large spoon (if you use your beater, you take the chance of 1) wearing a bowl full of flour and 2) over mixing) JUST until everything is combined. Don’t over mix or you’ll end up with tough muffins.
- Mix in the chocolate chip; again, just until mixed.
- Bake in the 375 degree oven until golden brown. Mine took 22 minutes.
