Easy Cornbread Muffins Recipe - w/ Sour Cream, Honey, & Creamed Corn (2024)

These Easy Cornbread Muffins are quick, easy, and naturally gluten free! They’re ultra fluffy, tender, and loaded with flavor thanks to butter, honey, eggs, sour cream, cornmeal, baking soda, salt, cream style corn, and sweet corn!

If cornbread is your jam, you’ll also love: cornbread dressing, classic cornbread, and jalapeno cornbread.

Whether it’s the dead of winter or the heat of summer, I love cornbread. It’s perfect for cozy winter chilis, but it’s also perfect for summer BBQs. It’s literally the perfect year round bread.

I love that these easy cornbread muffins are loaded with butter, sweet honey, eggs, tangy sour cream, cornmeal, baking soda, salt, cream style corn, AND sweet corn.

They’re full of goodness and *bonus* they’re super quick and easy to whip up.

How to make tender cornbread muffins fluffy:

There are a few tricks to making tender, fluffy cornbread muffins. To make tender muffins, you’ll use a combination of butter and sour cream. Not only does the butter add flavor and sour cream add tang, they both add such richness to these muffins.

If you’re looking for a buttermilk cornbread recipe, you’ll love my easy cornbread recipe.

We’re using baking soda today to keep these easy cornbread muffins nice and fluffy.

My secret ingredients to the best honey cornbread muffins:

• Butter – while oil typically adds more moisture than butter, we don’t need that for this recipe and butter works great for added flavor AND texture
• Honey – adds a subtle sweetness
• Sour cream – adds a great tanginess. I find that cornbread can be super bland without it
• Cream style corn – adds moisture and more of that delicious corn flavor
• Sweet corn – adds texture, sweetness, and wait for it… more corn flavor

What to serve with cornbread muffins:

Serve your cornbread muffins with extra honey and butter, you won’t regret it. Cornbread muffins are also the perfect side for:

• Instant Pot Chili
• Any other chili recipe – ha!
• Instant Pot BBQ Pulled Pork
• BBQ Baked Beans

What do YOU like the serve with cornbread?

How many calories are in a homemade cornbread muffin?

There are 225 calories in a homemade cornbread muffin.

Is cornbread the same as corn muffin?

I based this cornbread muffin recipe after my classic cornbread, so while the shape is different – I use a cast iron for cornbread and this muffin tin for muffins, the flavor profile and textures are virtually the same.

– Jennifer