These are honestly the Best Moist Cornbread Muffins you will ever have! They come out of the oven moist and tender with the perfect balance of savory and sweet. Pair these cornbread muffins with fall soups and southern plates for a perfect side dish!
If you’re looking for delicious side dishes, try my 1 Hour Buttermilk Dinner Rolls, Super Moist Cornbread, Easy Buttermilk Biscuits.
Why This Recipe Works
Savory & Sweet: These best moist cornbread muffins are not only super moist and tender, but they are also perfectly savory and sweet. I curated this recipe to have the perfect amount of sugar to complement the cornmeal and make the flavor balanced. You can enjoy these muffins with butter for a more savory treat or add some honey for some sweetness!
Easy to Make: I am all about making delicious recipes as easy as possible. Luckily, these individual muffins are super easy to whip up! You’ll just have to mix together the ingredients and bake. You can have these as a complement to any dish in less than 30 minutes!
Conveniently Portioned: Usually, cornbread is made in a loaf pan instead of a muffin pan, which makes things messy and crumbly when slicing it into individual slices! So, having these cornbread muffins made in a muffin pan is so much more convenient and easy. No messy cutting and each person can have their own!
Ingredients for Best Moist Corn Bread Muffins
For the Muffins:
- Flour- All purpose flour is needed as the base and structure for these muffins.
- Cornmeal– Cornmeal gives the classic cornbread taste and texture!
- Sugar– Sugar is needed to complement the corn and caramelize the outside of the muffins.
- Baking Powder– Baking powder will create the beautiful raised dome on these cornbread muffins.
- Butter– Melted butter helps to tenderize the muffins.
- Oil– Oil is added for extra moisture.
- Milk– You can use your preferred milk here. Whole milk or 2% would both work great!
- Eggs– Eggs are added for stability and give some extra rise to the muffins.
- Honey & More Butter for Serving
For the Honey Butter:
- Honey & Butter– Mix together the honey and butter for the perfect topping!
How to Make It
For the Muffins:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and grease a muffin tin with butter or cooking spray. (not pictured)
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt. (photo 1)
- In another bowl, whisk together melted butter, oil, milk, and eggs. (not pictured)
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. (photo 2)
- Fill the muffin tin with the mixture. Each muffin cavity should be filled about 1/2 to 2/3 full. Don’t fill them all the way since you want to give them room to rise. (photo 3)
- Bake for 11-13 minutes until golden brown. To check for doneness, stick a toothpick into one and make sure the toothpick comes out pretty clean without any wet batter. (photo 4)
- Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before gently removing from the muffin tin.
For the Honey Butter:
- Use an electric hand mixer to whip the honey and butter together for about 2 minutes until light and fluffy. Serve with warm cornbread muffins.
Expert Tips for the Best Moist Cornbread Muffins
- Make sure you use cornmeal for this recipe and not corn flour or masa harina. Cornmeal is the perfect, grainy texture that these muffins need.
- If you want a more savory cornbread muffin, you can add diced jalapeños or green chilis to your muffins!
- Don’t over mix once you add your wet ingredients to the dry ingredients! This can cause the muffin to be tough instead of tender.
- Store your cornbread muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. You can also keep them in the fridge for up to one week, or freeze them individually wrapped for up to 3 months!
- These best moist cornbread muffins are so moist and tender due to the ratio of flour to cornmeal. Too much cornmeal and the muffins can get dry and crumbly, so make sure you measure out the flour and cornmeal accurately!
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BEST Moist Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup (8 tablespoons) butter - melted
- ½ cup oil
- 1 ¼ cups milk
- 3 large eggs
- honey and extra butter for serving - optional
Honey Butter
- 8 tablespoons butter - at room temperature
- 1 tablespoon honey
Instructions
Prepare Corn Bread Muffins
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease a muffin tin.
- In a large bowl whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In a medium bowl mix together butter, oil, milk, and eggs.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Fill muffin tin cavities 1/2-2/3 full. Bake for 11-13 minutes until golden and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean or with only a few crumbs (no wet batter).
- Allow to cool for about 5 minutes before gently removing muffins from tin.
Prepare Honey Butter
- Use an electric hand mixer to whip honey and butter together for 2 minutes until light and creamy. Serve with warm corn muffins.
Incredibly delicious cornbread muffins! I used course grind cornmeal (Bob’s Red Mill). It left a bit of crunchiness with every bite! Yummm!
Tasted very good. I upped the corn meal a bit and lowered the flower a little bit because I like them more “corny”. They came out fantastic with this recipe.
Excellent! Didn’t even eat my chili as I filled-up on these muffins!!
Yum!! These are so friggen good!!
I added a cup of very small cubes of cheddar, a pack of maple brown sugar breakfast sausage (removed casings, cooked in a pan as a crumble) and half a finely diced jalapeno.
Filled the heck out of my tins, to the top. Baked about 16mins.
Perfect for a quick breakfast or snack on the go.
Five stars on these Ms. T., MOIST, yes…baked up nicely and really flavorful with the honey butter.
I served them with a chicken white Chile and it was perfect. Thank you.
Sound’s delicious! So glad you enjoyed this recipe! 🙂
Would this work for a 24 cup mini muffin pan?
Yes, but they will cook faster than regular muffins so I would keep an eye on them.
Delicious however butter oozed out while baking so I quickly put a pan under to catch it.
Had a sour taste with 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder. Also takes 18 minutes to bake.
Double the batter that could fit in a 12 muffin tin and timing was completely wrong. I don’t get why the reviews are good? Messed up supper timing. 😕
I had the same experience. I’m going on 12 mins plus 3 mins plus 5 mins and they are still not done. I thought the quantities seemed like a lot and based on the high ratings I felt like I could trust this was going to work out.
I had the same issue. Says 12 servings. I figured out a servings is 2 muffins not one. No biggy. Mine did take 18 minutes to cook, but they were fantastic muffins.
Perfect bake! Moist, not crumbly. A bit too sweet so honey butter unnecessary.
Perfect recipe for ribs,everyone loves it. Thank you for sharing great recipe.
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Just clarifying, a total of 16 tablespoons of butter is used in this recipe
Yes, one stick for the muffins and another for the honey butter.
This recipe needs to be updated. While the end result was good, as several others have said, the batter makes about 16 muffins, not 12, and takes up to 18 minutes to bake before they’re done. I had to stand by the oven and keep adding a few minutes at a time until they were finally done. And I don’t live in a high altitude area. Please revise this.
Can I add corn or cream corn -and if I do do I adjust the wet ingredients at all?
Canned corn will work great! 🙂 But, I’m sorry to say that this recipe hasn’t been tested with cream corn so I cannot say for sure if the liquid ingredients would need to be adjusted or not.
How would I store the honey butter? Do I put that in a jar after I’ve made it and store it in the fridge? Can’t wait to make these with chili!
Any air tight container for the fridge will work 🙂
Can these be made in advance and frozen? If so for how long?
Yes they can for up to 3 months 🙂