Corn Muffins

My mum has been bugging me to make something with cream corn because we had alot of it in the fridge. I have no idea where it came from, so anyway when i hear corn i could only think of cornbread, corn pudding and savoury corn muffins. Firstly cornbread doesn't use cream corn so that's out. Secondly, corn pudding would be perfect and i even have a fool proof recipe for it and tastes good too BUT i have made it before and i wanted to try something new so i guess my last option is corn muffins. I went through a few recipes in books, online websites, blogs and came to realise that most of the recipes calls for corn kernels. Just the corn NOT cream corn....sigh...so i decided to concoct my own recipe by combining a few that i have read here and there. But basically i can say that i adapted most of the recipe from Dorie Greenspan's Corn Muffins recipe.

SAVOURY CORN MUFFINS
(yield: 12 regular sized muffins)

1 cup all-purpose flour
11/2 cup cornmeal
3 tbsp granulated sugar
21/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
1 cup buttermilk
3 tbsp melted butter
3 tbsp corn oil
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 cup cream corn

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Fit the muffin pan with paper muffins cups.

In a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients...flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. In another bowl, jug or large measuring cup, combine the liquids...buttermilk, melted butter, oil, egg, egg yolk and whisk till combined. Pour the liquid ingredients over the dry and gently stir to blend. The batter will be lumpy and that's the way it should be. Lastly stir in the cream corn till just combined. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups.

Bake for 20 minutes, or until the tops are golden and when a knife inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean. Transfer to a rack and allow to cool 5 minutes before removing the muffins from the pan.

This recipe was a success...muffins had a nice texture and taste good, but i think no harm adding more cream corn for cornier taste...theeheheee