Best Moist Cornbread Muffins
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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
- 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.
- Milk– You can use your preferred milk here. Whole milk or 2% would both work great!
- Honey & Butter– Mix together the honey and butter for the perfect topping!
Here’s 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
- 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.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Excellent recipe, quick, easy and delicious. Next time I may substitute the milk for buttermilk, see how that tastes.
I Book Marked your recipe and use it quite often. I just took a twist on it by beating the egg white to a fluff and fold them in. It made a difference as it makes them more airy/ fluffy. Still great, thank you.
Wow. The texture of these muffins was perfect for my family. My family ate food snobs as I am a retired personal chef and my husband and kids are quite opinionated. This is the second time I made these muffins. The first time I had everything just put together and I knocked the dry ingredients off the counter. I replaced everything but had used the last of the corn meal. I subbed in grits and nobody noticed. This morning I made them again with corn meal and they were perfect. I made 18 muffins standard size. I put 9 away to have with bbq tomorrow and when I turned around the other 9 were gone. I blamed the dog until I found the wrappers in the trash.
Some recipes are too savory for breakfast muffins and others are too sweet for savory dishes. These are light fluffy with a slightly sweet taste. I replaced my own personal recipe.
These were very good. Nine took about 20 mins to cook. I would have liked to taste more of the corn flavor they were really good but not enough cornbread flavor.
Just made these tonight. Didn’t change anything at all with the recipe and I think they turned out perfectly! It ended up making 18 muffins for me and needed a little more baking time but that wasn’t a problem for me. The more of these delicious muffins the merrier 😁
These were pretty good, but a little too eggy- if I make them again, I’ll probably use only 2 eggs. They took me 14 minutes and made 19 muffins, though I could have filled the cups a little higher. Still would have been at least 16 though I think.
These were really good! Recipe made 15 muffins and I filled the muffin cups almost full. I only used 3/4 sugar instead of the full cup as others said it was too sweet. I also had to bake them for 18 minutes at 350, so a little bit more time than what the recipe said. Otherwise they came out moist and delicious.
I couldn’t eat these. I’m a southern baker. The 1 cup of sugar was overpowering. It was like eating cornbread cake.
I should’ve held back on the sugar but I wanted to trust the process. Also it took way longer than 13 minutes to back and there was plenty of muffin mix left over.
This just did not workout for me.
I rarely leave reviews like this. Taste is subjective so
Maybe it works for others.
Thank you, I am pleased with how the muffins turned. I will make them during maple syrup season and make maple butter to serve with them.
These are great. I added orange flavoured cranberries. Next time I will add lemon zest to the honey butter. Great recipe ,thank-you. From Canada via Pallm Springs.