Country cooking at its best! This easy quick bread recipe is the perfect addition to any meal.
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🗝️ Key takeaways
- I love these copycat Cracker Barrel cornbread muffins because they're just so darn easy! By using self-rising flour (click on the link to make your own) the leavening is already mixed in with the flour.
- Corn muffins are delicious with all kinds of soups, stews, or just with some butter and honey!
- Learn to make delicious cornbread croutons from the leftovers! See the great idea section for details.
This Cracker Barrel cornbread recipe is spot on. Copycat recipes are fun to make - and this one delivers delicious cornbread muffins.
Best of all - you don't have to leave home to have them! Serve this with classic Southern red beans and rice for a hearty, budget-friendly meal!
🧾 Ingredients
This is an "at a glance" list of ingredients. You'll find the list and the measurements in the printable recipe card below.
📖 Variations
- Fold in some crisply cooked bacon into the batter.
- 4 ounces of drained, chopped chiles is delicous.
- Sprinkle the tops with sugar crystals before the muffins go in the oven.
- Mix melted butter and a little honey and brush the tops while the muffins are still hot.
- Mix onion (finely chopped) in with the batter.
🔪 Instructions
You'll find the full instructions in the printable recipe card below.
- Combine dry ingredients, giving them a good mix so they are evenly combined.
- Whisk the eggs in a large bowl until they are completely combined. Add the buttermilk, honey, and cooled melted butter.
- Add the dry ingredients to the buttermilk mixture and mix just until blended.
- Divide batter between prepared muffin cups and bake.
🥫 Storage
Muffins are easy to store and also easy to serve again.
Leftover muffins will be fine for at least 3 days in an airtight container or covered with plastic wrap. Leave them right on the counter.
Leftover muffins can also be flash-frozen and transferred to an airtight container. Stored in the freezer, they will stay perfect for up to 3 months. Frozen muffins can be heated in the microwave for 0:45 to a minute.
💭 Things to know
⭐ Expert Tip: Don't overmix the batter. The muffins will be coarse and dry. Mix just until blended - some lumps are fine.
- Baking requires exact measurements and times. Make sure you preheat the oven and prepare your baking pans before you start.
- Follow the order of the ingredients as set out in the recipe.
- Start with room-temperature ingredients.
- If you've had the cornmeal for a while make sure it's still good. Cornmeal can go rancid.
- An instant-read thermometer stuck in the center of a muffin should read between 195F and 200F when the muffins are done.
- Leftover cornbread makes perfect crumbs for topping casseroles! Try it!
💡Great Idea: For a new twist, try Cornbread Croutons. Cut your leftover cornbread into cubes. Spread them on a baking sheet and sprinkle them with olive oil, kosher salt, and a grind of fresh pepper. Bake for approximately 30 minutes at 300 degrees F. Serve on soups, chili, and salads.
👩🍳 FAQs
Believe it or not, the only real difference between the two is the color of the kernels before grinding. Some cooks think that the white cornmeal is ground to a finer texture than yellow. That may be true of some manufacturers.
You can make your own "self-rising flour" For every 1 cup of all-purpose flour, add 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder and ¼ teaspoon table salt.
📚 Related recipes
While this is a delicious cornbread muffin, no Southern kitchen would admit to putting sugar in cornbread. If you're looking for authentic then this Southern buttermilk cornbread (with no sugar) is the real deal!
- If it's muffins for breakfast my first choice will always be simple blueberry muffins!
- Cornmeal popovers are delicious any time of the day.
- Even if you've never been able to make a biscuit before you'll love these light and fluffy drop biscuits! SO easy.
🍽️ Serve with...
If there's a bowl of hot chili anywhere around then homemade cornbread is the perfect side dish. You don't really need anything else but if you're looking for something sweet to finish then give this double fudge Coca Cola cake a try.
For a real Southern dish serve with country vegetables like these slow cooker collard greens.
📞 The last word
Can't get enough of cornbread recipes? Try this cornbread with creamed corn- it's a favorite!
If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need.
If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 Recipe
Copycat Cracker Barrel Corn Muffins
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- 2 teaspoons bacon grease, or melted butter
- 1-¼ cup self rising flour
- ½ cup sugar
- ¾ cup yellow cornmeal
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- ½ cup butter melted
Instructions
- Turn on the oven to 350°F.
- Using your fingers, or a pastry brush, grease your muffin tin with the bacon grease.
- Add the cornmeal, self-rising flour and sugar to a medium mixing bowl and mix with a wire whisk. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the eggs and beat with a whisk.
- Add the buttermilk, honey and melted (cooled) butter to the eggs and beat again.
- Add the flour mixture to the buttermilk mixture and mix just until combined. You don’t want to over mix and lumps in the batter is ok.
- Fill each muffin cup until ¾ filled with the cornbread batter.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 15 to 18 minutes - until the tops have started to lightly brown.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool a few minutes then serve warm.
Notes
- Don't overmix the batter. Some lumps are fine.
- Start with room-temperature ingredients.
- If you've had the cornmeal for a while make sure it's still good. Cornmeal can go rancid.
- An instant-read thermometer stuck in the center of a muffin should read between 195F and 200F when the muffins are done.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
This recipe has been tested several times. If you choose to use other ingredients, or change the technique in some way, the results may not be the same.
Dara says
Looks Delicious! What a Beautiful Family!