Jalapeno Cheddar Corn Bread

Jalapeno and cheddar in corn bread muffins, may potentially be the best addition to any southern cooking: welcome to the very first baking recipe I’ve posted up on here.

While I don’t really consider corn bread muffins baking, on account of them being one of the side “appertifs” to possibly the greatest feast possible: smoked meat.

I have never, in all of my travels, been to a smoke house that didn’t have corn bread as a possible side to any meat cooked in a smoker. Country biscuits could be an option depending on what state you are in, but they’ll probably have cornbread too.

Here at homecookedfeast.com, my goal is to help you make your standard dish look and taste exceptional, without the judgement and prejudice of a professional chef. If it looks good and tastes good, it is good.

Above average deliciousness

This is my above-average spin on your average delicious corn bread (muffin or cake…your choice) and add cheese and jalapeno. It is going to be super tasty and “you can believe me because I’ve made this thing tons of times!” (or that’s what most food bloggers say, anyway). I love baking these things in muffin tins for portability (and less crumbleability), but bake them however your heart desires.

Everyone knows “everything is better with cheese” …the dairy lobby has been telling as that for years! (haha) But it’s true. Cheese is super tasty, so why not melt it, spice it and add it to an already amazing snack with melty butter, a whiskey (or cocktail) and some smoked meat.

Jalapeno Cheddar Corn Bread

Add a little punch to a traditional cornbread recipe with minor modifications and wild improvement!

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 25 mins

Total Time 35 mins

Course Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 12 muffins

Equipment

• Oven. Preheated to 375F

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup All Purpose flour
• 1 cup Cornmeal (milled)
• 1 cup Grated Cheddar Cheese
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup butter
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp fine grain salt
• 3/4 cup cane sugar
• 1 jalapeno diced (plus slices for garnish)

Instructions

 

• Preheat to 375F, lightly grease pan with butter or preferred oil
• Combine dry ingredients together; combine wet ingredients together then and mix thoroughly until there are no clumps or dry pockets in the cake batter.
  
• Fill muffin sheet 3/4-7/8 full in order allow for rising.
  
• Bake approximately 20 minutes. Slightly less time will be require for mini muffins 15-18 minutes, slightly more for taller cake pan. Adjust times down if using convection oven. The toothpick or knife test is always a great indication (and if you don't mind less than perfect muffin or cake coming out of the oven. Remove from oven once toothpick or knife can be inserted and pulled out dry/clean. For better cooking times, do on separate racks (even with convection oven) as allows for better circulation and quicker heating/rise of all muffins.
  
• Once removed from oven, rest 2 minutes in pan place on rack for cooking prior to plating and/or service.
  

Notes

Substitute options:

Omit Cheese

Omit Jalapeno (but why would you?) 

Sub buttermilk for regular milk and additional butter

butter for oil, but less fluffy 

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Give this a try!

I have actually baked this recipe several times (don’t forget the baking powder!) and, as a variant on my mom’s recipe, I have tried with buttermilk, more butter, more milk, less dairy, more salt, less oil… just do it this way.. haha.

And then, add it to this feast.

Smoked Ribs

BBQ Wings or Smoked Wings

Smoked Sausage

Southern Style Potato Salad

Cucumber Salad/Fresh Pickle

Watermelon Cucumber Mint Salad

Coleslaw (or my Kimchi Coleslaw!)

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