Game Day Mini Corn Dog Muffins with Beef Lit’l Smokies® Sausages
 
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Recipe type: Appetiser
Cuisine: American
Serves: 24
Ingredients
  • 12 Beef Lit’l Smokies® sausages, cut in half
  • Vegetable oil
  • 1 cup yellow cornmeal
  • ½ cup self rising flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg, beaten
  • 2 tablespoons butter, melted
  • 1¼ cups buttermilk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 425° F. Drizzle oil in the cups of a mini muffin tin and place into the oven while you mix the batter, or about 10 minutes.
  2. In a medium mixing bowl, stir together cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Beat egg in a separate container; add egg and melted butter. Pour in buttermilk, a little at a time, until you have a thick batter. You may have to use a little bit more or less buttermilk to get the right consistency. Pour batter into a large measuring cup with spout for easy pouring.
  3. Remove hot muffin tin from the oven and immediately pour batter into cups. I like to fill cups to just below the top. Add half of a Lit’l Smokies® sausages to each cup.
  4. Tip: drizzling the muffin pan with oil and heating the pan before adding the batter will result in wonderfully crispy edges on your corn bread muffins, similar to my favorite part of a corn dog. You don’t want to skip this step!
  5. Bake at 425° F for about 12 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked through. Allow muffins to cool in the pan for 10 minutes or so, and then remove by running a butter knife along the sides of each muffin.
  6. Note: my mini muffin tin makes 18 muffins at a time, and this recipe makes about 24 mini muffins. Once I removed the first batch of muffins from the tin, I quickly wiped out the pan, put some additional vegetable oil in the pan, heated it again for 5-10 minutes, and used the rest of the batter.
  7. Serve hot or room temperature with mustard and ketchup.
  8. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.
Recipe by Food Fun Family at https://foodfunfamily.com/game-day-mini-corn-dog-muffins/