Sour cream, corn, and chile peppers add flavor to these attractive blue corn muffins. Blue cornmeal was used in the pictured muffins, but you could use a good quality stone ground cornmeal as well.

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Blue Corn Muffins

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Sour cream, corn, and chile peppers add flavor to these attractive blue corn muffins. Use blue cornmeal or a good quality stone ground cornmeal in the muffins.

  • Author: Diana Rattray
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 12 servings 1x
  • Category: Muffins, Cornbread

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup cornmeal, blue or stone-ground
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon honey (or sugar)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 2 large eggs
  • 4 tablespoons melted butter
  • 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed
  • 34 scallions, thinly sliced
  • 2 tablespoons minced chile peppers

Instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 425 F.
  2. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners or spray the cups with cooking oil spray.
  3. In a mixing bowl, combine the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Stir the dry ingredients to blend.
  4. In another bowl, whisk together the sour cream, eggs, and cooled melted butter.
  5. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and stir just until blended. Fold in the thawed corn kernels, green onions, and chile peppers.
  6. Fill muffin cups about three-quarters full.
  7. Bake for 20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.

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