Mexican Dessert Recipes
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Easy Cornbread Muffins
Cornbread is a classic Mexican food and there are both sweet and savory versions. Savory cornbread is served as an accompaniment to dishes like chili con carne or Mexican casseroles. It might contain cheese, jalapenos, or other savory ingredients. There are regional differences in cornbread and it tends to be made more salty in some areas. There are also steamed cornbread recipes which results in a mushy, pudding-like cornbread. This can be sweet or savory. Sweet cornbread is also very nice and it might contain honey and sugar to sweeten it. Cornbread is very appealing with its wonderful aroma, especially when it is served hot from the oven. It is also appetizing with its bright yellow color.
Perhaps you have made a recipe for buttermilk cornbread muffins before or maybe you have made skillet cornbread. The following recipe blends cornmeal, eggs, honey, butter and more for delicious individual cornbread muffins and they are light, fluffy, and really flavorful. You will need a twelve-cup muffin pan and twelve paper muffin cups in order to make this recipe. Serve cornbread muffins as they are or with some extra honey drizzled over the top as a special treat. Adults and kids love this recipe for cornbread muffins but kids have a particular fascination with cornbread, probably because it is so brightly colored as well as very tasty.
As with many Mexican dessert recipes, there are various recipes for cornbread muffins but the following recipe is really easy to follow. You simply need to combine the wet ingredients and the dry ones, and then stir everything together. Do not over-stir the mixture. As long as the dry and wet ingredients are just mixed, that is fine. These cornbread muffins will keep for a couple of days in an airtight container and then they will start to go a bit dry.
How to Make Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients -
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup yellow cornmeal
2 eggs
1 cup milk
½ cup white sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
¼ cup honey
½ stick melted butter
1 teaspoon salt
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
Combine the flour, baking powder, cornmeal, salt and sugar in a bowl.
Whisk the eggs with the milk, honey, and butter and pour this mixture into the flour mixture.
Stir to combine.
Put 12 paper muffin cups in a 12 cup muffin tin and spoon the cornbread batter into them.
Bake until golden brown.
This will take about 15 minutes.
(Makes 12)
Photo Description:
The bright yellow color of these delicious cornbread muffins makes it obvious what they are. Cornbread tastes wonderful and you can frost these muffins if you like or just eat them as they are. Enjoy this recipe for cornbread muffins with a hot drink in the afternoon or serve them after dinner. The sweet flavor of the honey contrasts beautifully with the corn flavor and these muffins will appeal to everyone in the family. They are also nice to serve if you have company coming over and they make a change from the cakes and cookies you might usually offer to guests.
