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Honey Cornbread Muffins

Slightly sweet with a moist cake-like crumb, these flavorful Honey Cornbread Muffins are a heavenly side dish. Ready in just 30 minutes, these pair well with chilis, BBQ, salads, and so much more!

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A Sweet & Easy Cornbread Recipe

Cornbread was not a way of life for our family when I was growing up. It would occasionally show up at a gathering, and I’d always try it. But I would never return for seconds, as it was always dry and rather flavorless. Then, as an adult, I discovered moist, sweet cornbread at a barbecue restaurant. I was in love!

This Honey Cornbread Muffins recipe is the result of my later-in-life discovery of my perfect cornbread. And now this is the only cornbread muffin recipe my family wants to eat. We love to serve the muffins with chili in the winter and with anything that comes off the grill in the summer!

Honey cornbread muffins get their rich flavor and moist crumb from buttermilk and butter. If you haven’t liked cornbread in the past, because all you’ve had was dry and crumbly and bland, I beg you to give this cornbread recipe a try. This moist, flavorful version is sure to win you over.

And the big bonus? These sweet cornbread muffins are super easy to make, with a simple ingredients list. From start to finish, this cornbread can be on your plate in 30 minutes!

What You’ll Need

I always keep yellow cornmeal on hand, so I can make these muffins any time I want!

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How to Make Honey Cornbread Muffins

These muffins are so easy to make. I can whip these up and pull them out of the oven, in just 30 minutes!

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Tips for Success

For soft, tender cornbread muffins keep these things in mind.

What to Eat with Cornbread Muffins?

We make these cornbread muffins most often when there’s a pot of chili waiting for us. This summer chicken chili is wonderful, incorporating fresh zucchini, yellow squash, sweet corn, and herbs. And this slow cooker chili has been a longtime family favorite.

Cornbread muffins are also great companions to anything slathered in barbecue sauce, and nearly anything that comes off the grill. Think beer can chicken, chipotle orange salmon, or chili lime pork tenderloin.

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cornbread muffins in a muffin pan

Honey Cornbread Muffins

Yield: 12 muffins
prep time: 15 minutes
cook time: 15 minutes
total time: 30 minutes
Slightly sweet with a moist cake-like crumb, these flavorful Honey Cornbread Muffins are a heavenly side dish. Ready in just 30 minutes, these pair well with chilis, BBQ, salads, and so much more!
4.5 Stars (154 Reviews)
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Ingredients

  • 1 cup yellow corn meal
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • ½ cup unsalted butter melted
  • 2 large eggs
  • ¼ cup honey

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375° F. Spray a standard muffin pan lightly with cooking spray, or line your pan with paper liners.
  • In a large bowl, mix the corn meal, flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, butter, eggs, and honey. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until just mixed.
  • Divide the cornbread mixture into your prepared pan. Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden. Remove pan from oven and let muffins rest in pan for 5 minutes before placing on a rack to cool. 

Notes

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Nutrition Information:

Serving: 1 Calories: 191kcal Carbohydrates: 26g Protein: 3g Fat: 9g Saturated Fat: 5g Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g Cholesterol: 52mg Sodium: 157mg Fiber: 1g Sugar: 16g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by Spoonacular. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee accuracy. If your health depends on nutrition information, please calculate again with your own favorite calculator.
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This post was previously published in 2010, and then updated in 2018 and 2021.