Chili Bites Inwards Mini Cornbread Cups

Chili without a spoon? Sure! Turn chili into finger nutrient amongst these tasty {and adorable} Chili Bites inward Mini Cornbread Cups. Perfect for your adjacent political party or game twenty-four hr menstruation get-together.

Remember the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup slogan from the 1970s too 1980s "Two cracking tastes that gustatory modality cracking together?" Well, the same tin last said of chili too cornbread.

The 2 only larn together.

So why non pose them together inward a two-bite, pick-'em-up-and-eat-'em-with-your-fingers party-perfect treat? I tin encounter no argue non to!

And thus I did. And I must admit, ...
... I was genuinely quite proud of myself when I came upward amongst this footling idea.

I hateful seriously, chili without spoons? Cool.

I tin cause got no credit for the mini cornbread loving cup stance ... that's at in ane lawsuit out of step-by-step procedure of making Mini Cornbread Cups in a split upward post if you'd similar to see.}

But pairing the cute too tasty footling cups with Hearty Chili?

That stance was all me, my friends. Mmmm hmmmm, thinkin' "two cracking tastes that gustatory modality cracking together ..."

And I'm happy to tell the Chili Bites were bestowed the "Hubby Seal of Approval," later only ane taste. Which is tough to get. See, my hubby Mark is a tough nutrient critic ... which makes him a really cracking gustatory modality tester for .

That tray of chili-filled cornbread cups inward the photograph below?

Gone inward a flash, amongst a "These are good," earned from Mark. And believe me, "These are good," is high praise from my hubby of minimal words.

So correct too thus too at that spot I knew I had an stance that was a winner.

'Cause seriously, I manage amongst the Reese's slogan ... "Two cracking tastes that gustatory modality cracking together." When you've got that, it only can't be wrong.

Chili Bites inward Mini Cornbread Cups

Source: Cornbread Cups Adapted from Taste of the South magazine, April/May 2008
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
For the chili: {This is my Hearty Chili recipe. Use your favorite thick chili, if desired.}

1 lb. ground beef or soil turkey
1 large onion, chopped (add more, if you'd like! I commonly do.)
2 tsp. garlic powder
Salt & pepper, to taste
2 (15 oz.) cans night blood-red kidney beans
2 (14.5 oz.) cans stewed tomatoes
1 T. chili powder
1 T. ground cumin
1 T. Worcestershire sauce
1 T. white vinegar

For the cornbread cups: {Click to encounter the step-by-step cornbread loving cup process.}

2 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. yellow cornmeal
3/4 c. shredded cheddar cheese
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. ground cayenne pepper
3/4 c. cold butter, cutting inward pocket-sized pieces
1 large egg, lightly beaten
3 T. ice water

Directions
Prepare the chili:

Drain too rinse kidney beans.
Brown soil beef or turkey, onion, salt, pepper, too garlic pulverisation together inward a large saucepan. (Note - when using soil turkey, I pose a pocket-sized splash of olive fossil oil inward the pan. Since soil turkey has thus footling fat, it may stick to the pan without the olive fossil oil splash.)
Add remaining ingredients too simmer over medium-low to depression rut for 45-60 minutes.

Prepare the cornbread cups:

In a nutrient processor, combine flour, cornmeal, shredded cheese, garlic powder, salt, too cayenne pepper. Pulse until blended. Add mutual coldness butter too pulse until mixture turns into crumbs.
Add egg too H2O ice water. Process only until mixture comes together into a dough too forms a ball.
Roll mixture into 48 balls, each some 1-inch inward diameter. Grease 2 mini muffin pans; firmly press each dough ball into the bottom too upward the sides of a muffin cup. Use your pollex to ensure the dough is good pressed into the muffin cup.
Bake at 450 degrees for 8 minutes, or until real lightly browned. Cool inward pan for 10 minutes; too thus withdraw cornbread cups to a wire rack too cool completely.
Fill amongst chili too garnish amongst shredded cheddar cheese, sour cream, and/or chopped light-green onions to serve.

Enjoy!

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