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Bacon-Cheddar Corn Muffins

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Bacon-Cheddar Corn Muffins
Photo: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Cindy Barr
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Good, Solid Recipe

Use extrasharp cheese for the most intense flavor. These muffins are great for breakfast or with soup; split and toast leftovers.

Yield: 12 servings (serving size: 1 muffin)

Ingredients

  • Cooking spray
  • 1 1/2  cups  all-purpose flour (about 6 3/4 ounces)
  • 1/2  cup  yellow cornmeal
  • 1  teaspoon  baking powder
  • 1  teaspoon  baking soda
  • 1  teaspoon  sugar
  • 1/2  teaspoon  salt
  • 1  cup  fat-free milk
  • 2  tablespoons  lemon juice
  • 2  tablespoons  butter, melted
  • 1  large egg
  • 1/2  cup  (2 ounces) shredded extrasharp cheddar cheese
  • 4  center-cut bacon slices, cooked and crumbled

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400°.

Place 12 paper muffin cup liners in muffin cups. Coat liners with cooking spray; set aside.

Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 5 ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture.

Combine milk and juice in a medium bowl; let stand 2 minutes (milk will curdle). Add butter and egg; stir well to combine. Add to flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Stir in cheese and bacon. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups. Bake at 400° for 17 minutes or until muffins spring back when touched lightly in center. Remove muffins from pans immediately; place on a wire rack.

Nutritional Information

Calories:
142 (30% from fat)
Fat:
4.8g (sat 2.6g,mono 1.5g,poly 0.3g)
Protein:
5.2g
Carbohydrate:
19.1g
Fiber:
0.6g
Cholesterol:
30mg
Iron:
1.1mg
Sodium:
342mg
Calcium:
88mg
Jaime Harder, Cooking Light, JULY 2007

Member Ratings and Reviews

5 stars
MLL
I read the mixed reviews before making these muffins. I wish I had listened to the bad reveiws before wasting ingredients on these. I am rarely disappointed with CL recipes, but this was a huge disappointment!!! Not only were the muffins dry, but they had no flavor. Even drowning it in butter (which defeats the CL purpose) didn't help these muffins. I ended up throwing them all away.06/17/09

5 stars

These were pretty dry, and I couldn't really taste the bacon at all. I like other corn muffin recipes from cl much better.03/07/08