These Sweet Honey & Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins are a deliciously sweet side dish. They melt in your mouth with an explosion of warm flavors!
The Best Cornbread Muffins
So excited to share these cornbread muffins with you today. This recipe is out of this world!! This is honestly the best cornbread I have ever had.
You will love these cornbread muffins if:
- You prefer lightly-sweet cornbread.
- You think the best cornbread is cake-like and soft.
- You like your cornbread super moist and not gross and dry. (Sorry I said moist. Sorry I said it again.)
- The perfect muffin top is your love language.
If that combination makes the ultimate cornbread for you, get ready to fall head over heels in love with a muffin.
Because that muffin top is to die for!! Cornbread is the perfect complement to any southern meal (especially pulled pork!), and this is THE go-to recipe you’ll want to use again and again.
Here’s all you’ll need: sugar, salt, creamed corn, baking powder, baking soda, Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce, yellow cornmeal, honey, butter, flour, and eggs.
Oh and buttermilk! I forgot the buttermilk. :) By the way, I LOVE using this new Cholula Green Pepper (jalapeño and poblano) hot sauce in these muffins. It gives the muffins that perfect, sweet jalapeño flavor without adding too much heat. And you don’t have to cut up a jalapeño yourself! My neighbor, who is very sensitive to spicy foods, loved these muffins! They are not spicy at all, just the perfect amount of green pepper flavor. It goes perfectly with the honey, butter, and creamed corn!
How to Make The Best Sweet Cornbread Muffins
First, whisk together your dry ingredients: the cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
Then cream together the butter and sugar, and beat in the honey and eggs. The honey gives these muffin a delicious, lightly sweet flavor.
Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, then stir in the buttermilk, Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce, and creamed corn.
Bake in a muffin tin at 400 degrees F for 15-18 minutes, and when they’re done, you’ll have these decadently soft, unbelievably moist, light-as-a-feather cornbread muffins.
They honestly don’t need it because they are already so rich and flavorful, but I couldn’t resist adding a little extra butter for a deliciously naughty experience.
Kill. Me. Now. These muffins are so, so good!! Try them today! :)
Also be sure to check out Picky Palate’s Skillet Nachos with Spicy Salsa Verde Chicken! today for another awesome recipe using Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce! Loved working with Cholula today to bring you these fun recipes! :)
Enjoy, friends!!
PrintSweet Honey & Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
- Category: Side Dish
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Sweet Honey & Jalapeño Cornbread Muffins are a deliciously sweet side dish. They melt in your mouth with an explosion of warm flavors!
Ingredients
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons Cholula Green Pepper Hot Sauce
- 1 (8.5-ounce) can cream-style corn
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease or line 12 muffin cups. In a bowl, whisk together the cornmeal, flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda to combine.
- In the workbowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4-5 minutes. Add honey and eggs and beat for an additional 2-3 minutes. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir in buttermilk, hot sauce, and corn. Pour or spoon 1/3 cup batter into each prepared muffin cup.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 18 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.
I love this recipe so much! Delicious! I want to make these again next week but am wondering what the recipe would be for a gluten free version since my cousin has Celiac. Any recommendations?
Just tested several different corn muffin recipes since I’m making for a crowd and these are by far the best! Perfect amount of sweetness with great flavor from the hot sauce but not spicy at all! AND… they looked the prettiest too! Amazing recipe
Your picture shows vanilla whipped honey. Is this what you used in this recipe or just plain honey?
Is this enough batter to make thick corn bread in a 9×13 pan?
im remaking these tonite using the green Tabasco . They are a hit! My daughter took some home to have later. Thsnks for a great recipe.
I’ve made these muffins several times – once as mini muffins for a couples shower that I was serving pulled pork, and some other church functions. They are always a hit! I’m thinking I might try them in a cast iron skillet – have you ever made them this way?
Just made them for Thanksgiving. I tested one and it was deelish! Can’t wait to share with the fam! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this recipe! I made some tonight- amazing and I will never make them differently! These were seriously the best ever. Thank you!!
Oh I’m gonna try these this week! Yum.
Love this recipe!! I made these a few days ago and brought them to work for Go Texan Day. Everyone loved them. These are the exact type of cornbread muffins that I like (vs the drier/more crumbly cornbread). I couldn’t find the Green Cholula – so I substituted some Green Tabasco instead. I also put a sliced jalapeno on top for garnish. I will definitely make these again!
That’s exactly what I did! Green Tabasco and jalapeno garnish on top :) So good!
Wow these look positively amazing! I’m going to try them very soon… although I’ve never seen that green pepper hot sauce in my grocery store :/ Do you think it would be okay to finely dice a jalapeno and use that instead?
I just made a batch of these and they are SO GOOD. Perfectly light and fluffy and just a little bit sweet. My husband devoured about 4 of them. Definitely going to be my new go-to corn muffin recipe! Thank you!!
Made these today, they were delicious! Definitely will be my go to recipe from now on.
What do you think about making them gluten free and using 2 cups of corn meal instead of 1 cup flour and 1 cup cornmeal?
Hi Carol! I’m sure that would be fine! Let us know how they turn out! :)
Can’t wait to try these! What did u use for the muffin liners in your pictures?
Hi Tracy! They are called Parchment Lotus Cups, and I found them at our local Kroger, but you can also get them on Amazon. Hope this helps! :)
Hey there! I was so happy when I found your blog while looking for a good gnocchi casserole recipe! Anywho, I am looking through your recipes to find ones that use things I already have. It looks like I have everything (even the hot sauce!) for this one except for creamed corn. It’s not something we typically have around because we all think…well…that its kinda gross >_>. Do you think that I could possibly add in some fresh corn (whirred in the food processor for a sec) and then increase the liquid a wee bit? Let me know your thoughts, I would love to have these for dinner this week!
That would probably be great! :)
Did you use regular honey or the vanilla whipped you have pictured? Will that make a difference?
Hi Michele! You can definitely use regular honey. :) Happy baking!! :)
Good. Heavens.
This sounds like the only kind of cornbread recipe I’ll ever need again! Lovely!
Love this…love jalapenos in cornbread…yours looks awesome!
These look fantastic! Love how fluffy they are!
One of my favorite classic summer combos! These look delish!
I am obsessed with the honey corn bread muffins from a local restaurant, but you added jalapeño, so they have to be even better!
Oh my goodness, these look amazingly fluffy and delicious! Can’t wait to serve them up with my next pulled pork dinner!
Love these muffins!
Hey Amanda, these look great! I would love to try them but we do not have Cholula hot sauce or creamed corn in my part of the world. Any ideas on substitutions? Could I use regular hot sauce and an actual jalapeño finely diced? What about the cream corn? Thx!
I couldn’t find the Cholula here either. I did find Green Pepper Tabasco and used it and it was still quite yummy. You can make homemade creamed corn (google) I believe it is just corn, butter and buttermilk though. My family always makes it for Thanksgiving and it’s so good!
These look so bright and cheery. Delish!!!
They look delicious! Can’t wait to try them. I love cornbread!!
Oooo, I want to make a batch today! Love the flavors here! xo
Perfect cornbread muffins!! Love :)
These are wonderful. Thank you Amanda.
These sound delicious Amanda, so many great ingredients!! PINNED :)
These sound amazing ! Thanks for sharing
You’ll never believe this but I made honey cornbread muffins on Tuesday! I had a taste for them and decided to whip up a batch. I love that you used hot sauce and buttermilk and the creamed corn – all sound like they’d make for amazing additions to the muffins! Pinned!