Jalapeno Cream Cheese Stuffed Beer Cornbread Muffins
Jackie Dodd-Mallory
(Senior Editor)
Jalapeno Cream Cheese Stuffed Beer Cornbread Muffins
It’s hard to explain sometimes, but I’m used to that.
I’ve had a weird life, I’ve told you that. I grew up on a farm with seven sister, and let’s just say an unconventional amalgamation of parents. From there I moved to LA, started working with gang kids on probation, and hanging out with a music industry crowd in Hollywood. All weird. All hard to explain. I wonder some days—If I could go back— if I’d do it differently and end up in a different place. I wonder if I’d pick a more normal life and the comforts that come along with it. But I know that my gypsy soul, for better or for worse (probably for worse), wouldn’t be content there, even if I wish it was. I’ve come to terms with the fact that "normal" has never been my path and even though there is a romantic notion to that, it causes a part of my soul to grieve.
So when people ask me, "What do you do for a living?" It’s hard to explain. It isn’t a job that exist on the drop down menu on Career Builder. It’s an answer that begs more questions than it satisfies. Recipe-developer-food-writer-beer-writer-photographer. I sound like a kindergartener answering, "What do you want to be when you grown up?" with, "police-officer-ballerina-astronaut."
But I fought really hard to get here. And I guess weird suits me. But there are still times when normal looks really nice.
Maybe that’s what this recipe is. It’s normal meets weird. Cornbread muffins (normal), stuffed with jalapeño cream cheese (not as normal). I hope you like them as much as I do. Because maybe we should all embrace weird and normal and just get used to both.
Jalapeno Cream Cheese Stuffed Beer Cornbread Muffins
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ½ cup 42g mozzarella cheese
- 1 tablespoon 10g cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon 2g garlic
- 1 cup 8 wt oz wheat beer, divided
- 2 large jalapenos chopped (remove seeds for a lower heat level)
- 1 1/4 cups 214g cornmeal
- 3/4 cup 90g flour
- 1/3 cup 75g packed brown sugar
- 1 ½ tsp 4g baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp 4g baking powder
- 1 tsp 6g salt
- ¾ cup melted butter
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup 53g vegetable oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375.
- In a blender or food processor add the cream cheese, mozzarella, cornstarch, garlic, and ¼ cup (62mL) beer (reserve the rest). Process until well combined.
- Add one of the chopped jalapenos (reserve the other), pulse to combine but leave the jalapeno in chunks. Place in the refrigerator while you prepare the batter.
- In a large bowl stir together the remaining jalapeño, cornmeal, flour, brown sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Make a well in the center.
- Add the melted butter, remaining ¾ cup beer, eggs, and vegetable oil, stir until combined.
- Grease a mini muffin tin. Add about 1 ½ tablespoons to the wells (about 1/2 full), using the back of a spoon make a deep well in the center.
- Fill the well with the cream cheese mixture.
- Bake at 374 for 10-12 minutes or until the cornbread springs back when lightly touched.
- Serve warm.
Comments
Amanda @ Cookie Named Desire June 29, 2016 um 7:08 am
Weird.. normal… It’s all relative. Personally, I’d rather choose "weird" over "normal" any day. It’s freeing. Being free to not have to be like everyone else and do something a little more out of the box like these stuffed cornbread muffins that I kind of want to live in. Living in a jalapeno stuffed cornbread muffin? Not normal, but so welcomed!
Michelle Lahey June 29, 2016 um 1:21 pm
These. Are. Everything. I love jalapeno poppers – and cornbread!
Megan @ Meg is Well June 29, 2016 um 5:25 pm
Weird + Normal = some of the best things in the world, these muffins included.
Carla June 30, 2016 um 6:14 pm
Who is to say what is normal. Life is what you make it and I could write a book. I love your recipes and your stories! Keep sharing!
HANNAH HELM July 2, 2016 um 4:11 am
You call it wierd, I prefer the term unique!! We all love unique!! I’m going to try these, they sound delicious as do all your recipes. However, as a Southern gal in KY, sugar does not belong in cornbread, so my version will be more savory sans sugar.
Ishalot July 4, 2016 um 3:18 pm
Made these for a 4th of July party today. It doesn’t say when to add the second jalapeno, but I’m assuming it is to the cornbread batter. My mini muffin tin must be small or something. I made exactly 48 muffins and a few expanded into each other on the top. The batter did not create a "well", so I just dolloped the cream cheese on top and pushed it down a little. All that aside, they taste amazing. And people will eat whatever I make. Ha!