Cooking Mummy Recipe: Muffin

I always love to go to Kenny Rogers for their chicken meals which have fantastic choices of side dishes. This is especially so when I am a great fan of the ever so-tasty Kenny Rogers corn muffins. Ohh... I simply love the warm corn muffins that always adds an endearing sweet after-taste to the whole meal.

Hence, this begins my journey of looking for this Great Recipe that captures this buttery sweetness (yes, I am a sugar person, full of sweetness as you can tell... hehe)

Honestly, I never imagined that I could ever get hold of this recipe by surfing the internet. This happened many many moons back. Lo and Behold, somehow I managed to get hold of this. But, I was not convinced of the authentic taste of it, as there were no pictures, but just a simple recipe. Anyway I had to try it !

As you would have guess, eversince that first try, I have made these muffins a couple of times.. so you know the answer..it's close to the real thing ! Because I love eating them and the children loves eating them , I make them quite often, with my new chocolatey invention ones as well !

Don't they look tempting ...hmmm.... I swear I can smell them from the pictures !

These are the simple but respectable ingredients required to perform the Grand Finale !

1/2 cup butter

2/3 cup sugar

1/4 cup honey

2 eggs

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 cup yellow cornmeal

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup milk

3/4 cup frozen yellow corn

Instead of the yellow cornmeal, I have replaced it with the Red Man Cookie Cornmeal which I find has a finer texture and taste better.

Cream together butter, sugar, honey, eggs, and salt in a largebowl.

I use the electric mixer to help in the creaming ! Much easier... ;-)

This is followed by some whisking ... whisk away !!

Errh... this is how it looks.. not to worry , it gets better after this , trust me ..

Add in the flour, cornmeal and the baking powder

Pour in the milk ... look how the milk flows

Whoo... whisking again !

This is how it looks after the whole whisking process.. doesn't it look inviting ..

You can dip your little finger to sneak a taste ...

Add in the yellow corns .. (no more whisking please)..

Gently fold in the corns with the mixture using a spatula.

Place the muffins cups in the baking muffin tray . Add in 2 to 3 tsps full of the mixture.

Sprinkle a few of the remaining corn over the muffins. Look how beautiful they are !

Nothing beats having an micro-wave cum convectional oven. It's much faster than the conventional oven to preheat. Whichever yours is, do remember to Preheat to 200 C or 390 F .

Put the muffin baking tray into the oven. Set the timer to 20mins.

While waiting, separately, I have added some 20g of cocoa powder into the remaining mixture , without the corn. My elder son saw me baking and couldn't resist the request for a chocolatey version... hehe..