I love the sweet cornbread muffins from Famous Daves. I searched for a copycat recipe and tried the following. These were good and somewhat close but I think you need to add more butter, really grind the cornmeal and maybe add some greek yogurt or sour cream to try and get these a little more moist. Otherwise they were pretty good and would go great with chili or barbeque. I think the secret is the honey that is added that really turns cornbread into a sweet treat. Enjoy!
1 3/4 cup cornmeal
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cup whole milk
1/4 cup buttermilk
1/3 cup vegetable oil
4 Tb. honey
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grind the cornmeal in a food processor until it becomes fine like flour. Pour cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda into a large bowl and mix. Use a mixer to cream together the eggs, sugar, shortening and vanilla. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry stuff and add the remaining ingredients. Stir together until smooth. Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper muffin cups. Fill each muffin cup 3/4 full with batter; then bake the muffins for 18 minutes. Remove from the oven and lather with butter on top of each roll. Makes 12-16 muffins.
Taken from: http://eatcakefordinner.blogspot.com/2011/11/famous-daves-cornbread-muffins-copycat.html
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