Cornbread Muffins - Serve warm cornbread muffins with butter and honey. These muffins go excellent with chili, barbecued dinners, and so much more! You can even make a delicious cornbread casserole or a holiday cornbread dressing with these muffins.
Ingredients you need to make Cornbread Muffins:
All-Purpose Flour - A very versatile flour that works perfect for cornbread. You can use bleached or unbleached flour.
Cornmeal - You'll need regular yellow ground cornmeal to make this recipe.
Granulated White Sugar - You can also use cane sugar or light brown sugar in substitution.
Baking Powder - This will help the bread to rise.
Eggs - Eggs create the perfect texture in this bread recipe.
Milk - I used whole milk in this recipe, but you can use low fat or non fat milk as well.
Vegetable Oil - You may also use avocado or canola oil if you do not have vegetable oil on hand.
Salt - I almost always use sea salt in my recipes but you can use iodized or kosher salt.
Tools needed to make cornbread muffins:
How to make cornbread muffins:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
Add milk, eggs and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mix to fully combine.
Line a standard muffin pan with 12 liners or lightly butter/oil the pan. Evenly pour muffin mixture into the tins. Bake muffins for 13-15 minutes.
Remove muffins from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. Serve with butter and honey.
How to store muffins to maintain their freshness?
Store completely cooled muffins in a sealed bag or container on the counter for up to 3 days. Freeze muffins in an airtight freezer bag for up to 3 months. To thaw, remove from freezer and let come to room temperature. To reheat muffins, zap in the microwave for about 20 seconds or wrap muffins in foil and bake at 300 degrees for 10 minutes.
Chili Recipes to pair with cornbread muffins:
The Best Turkey Chili Recipe - Loaded with ground turkey, beans, veggies and spices cooked low and slow giving it the most amazing flavor-packed end result.
Slow Cooker Ground Beef Chili - Hearty ground beef and bean chili cooked low and slow in a slow cooker/crockpot. Serve with chopped green onions and a dollop of sour cream!
Slow Cooker Pork Roast Chili - Pork roast pinto bean chili cooked low and slow in a crockpot/slow cooker.
Slow Cooker Chili w/ Chicken and Sweet Potato - A warm and cozy chili full of delicious flavors like shredded chicken, sweet potato, beans, and warm spices.
Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup cornmeal
- ½ cup granulated white sugar
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup milk
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup vegetable oil or avocado/canola
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
- Add milk, eggs and vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mix to fully combine.
- Line a standard muffin pan with 12 liners or lightly butter/oil the pan. Evenly pour muffin mixture into the tins. Bake muffins for 13-15 minutes.
- Remove muffins from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. Serve with butter and honey.
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