Corn Cheddar Bacon Muffins

A savory cornmeal muffin with bacon bits and shredded cheddar, great with a bowl of chili.

Now that 3/4 of my family is unable to enjoy corn on the cob, I've come up with other ways to enjoy the fresh taste of just-picked corn. Normally I'd boil the corn and serve it with butter and salt.  Now, however, I boil it, cool it, cut the kernels off the cob, freeze them on parchment paper on a try, and transfer the frozen kernels to zip top freezer bags for long term storage.

On a particularly Frugal Farm Fresh Eco Friendly Palooza day, I managed to cook the corn in the leftover canning water, but normally I boil it for 10-12 minutes in salted water.

This savory muffin combination was suggested by my daughter.  I'll probably keep making these after the braces come off. They are tasty!

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Corn Cheddar Bacon Muffins

adapted from Muffins, a cookbook by Joan Bidinosti and Marilyn Wearring  (Amazon affiliate link)

(She went to school with my mom!)

1 cup buttermilk (here's how I make mine!)

⅓ cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

1 cup cornmeal (today I had yellow on hand)

1 cup all purpose flour

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon sugar

1½ Tablespoons Onion Onion (I used a Tastefully Simple product, but use any dried minced onion)

1 cup shredded Cheddar, or Colby Jack, or Mexican blend cheese

2 ears corn, cooked, kernels cut off the cob (about 1 generous cup)

½ cup cooked and crumbled bacon (about 4 strips)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Spray muffin tin with oil spray or line with paper or foil cups. Mix buttermilk, oil and eggs together in a large bowl. Dump dry ingredients on top, and stir until just barely combined.  Add cheese, corn, and bacon then stir until combined.  Scoop** into prepared tin.

Bake 15-18 minutes, this will make about 12 to 15 regular sized muffins.  Or in a mini-muffin tin, bake for 12 minutes and this makes about 50 to 56 miniature muffins as pictured above.

**My scoop holds 3 Tablespoons (1 ½ ounces) by volume, though the muffin batter is mounded in the scoop so I'm pretty sure I'm putting a good 3 ½ Tablespoons into each muffin well.  The muffin wells in my regular muffin pans each hold 3 ounces by volume.