Mini Cornbread Cups {Step Past Times Footstep Tutorial}

Adorable, versatile, too delicious. Pair these Mini Cornbread Cups with your favorite filling for the perfect two-bite appetizer, game day, or tailgating treat.

I am inwards beloved alongside these cute petty cornbread cups! An I-want-to-gobble-up-every-last-bite kinda love, that is.

I mean, aren't these cups precisely adorable? And precisely fabulous for making the perfect petty two-bite appetizer or game twenty-four hours treat? Fill them alongside chili ... or pulled pork ... or barbecue chicken ... or salsa ... or chicken salad ... or ... ah, the possibilities are precisely endless.

Look how deliciously precious they expect when filled too garnished ...

This detail batch is filled alongside hearty reason beef too bean chili, too thus garnished alongside shredded cheddar, sour cream, too greenish onions.

I beloved the texture the cornmeal brings to these cups. And the season a impact of cheddar cheese, garlic powder, too cayenne deliver up. They're fabulous filled alongside anything you lot would typically duo alongside cornbread.

Want to see how to brand them? Yes?

Great! 'Cause I took step-by-step photos of the procedure to portion alongside you. So, let's larn started!

First up, combine some flour, cornmeal, shredded cheddar, too spices inwards the operate bowl of a nutrient processor. A nutrient processor makes this procedure super easy, but if you lot don't accept i precisely set everything inwards a large ol' mixing bowl. It'll all the same work.

Next, cutting mutual coldness butter into small-scale pieces. Just similar when making a pie crust, brand certain the butter is coming right out of the fridge thus it's prissy too cold. This forms dough of the right consistency to help bake upward a tender crust ... or cup, inwards this case.

Add the butter pieces to the cornmeal mixture inwards the nutrient processor too pulse a few times until the mixture is similar crumbly sand. If you're using the mixing bowl method, add together the butter pieces too operate them into the cornmeal mixture alongside ii knives, a pastry cutter, or your fingers until the mixture is sandy. Personally, if non using a nutrient processor, I similar to utilization my fingers best.

Next, add together an egg too a petty H2O ice H2O to the sandy mixture. You wishing your H2O really H2O ice mutual coldness thus it doesn't melt whatsoever of the butter. I identify some H2O inwards a drinking glass alongside H2O ice too dip out what I need.

Process the mixture a chip to a greater extent than inwards the nutrient processor until it comes together inwards a 'ballish' shape to create dough. If you're using the mixing bowl method, mix alongside a wooden spoon until it comes together into a dough.

We're at nowadays create to create the cornbread cups!

Hey, did you lot know this funny looking wooden affair is called a Tart Tamper? I didn't ... I had to expect it upward to live able to state what it is. Anyway, you lot utilization i of these tampers to brand the cups.

Roll bits of the dough into 1-inch balls, identify each ball inwards the loving cup of a mini muffin pan, too utilization the tart tamper to press the dough ball into a loving cup shape.

Don't accept a tart tamper?

Never fear!

If you've got a liquor bottle ... or whatsoever similar-sized bottle ... similar this:

... precisely plow it over too utilization the laissez passer on every bit your tamper. Works similar a charm!

After pressing each dough ball into cups, utilization your pollex to actually squish the bottom too sides into an fifty-fifty thickness, specially getting your pollex into the bottom ridge where the bottom meets the sides. It's best if that 'ridge' surface area doesn't destination upward likewise thick ... you lot wishing at that spot to live enough of room for filling afterward the cups bake!

Then bake upward the cups, too withdraw to a wire rack to cool.

Baked cups tin live used immediately, stored for a few days inwards an airtight container, or frozen for time to come use. How peachy is that?

If saving or freezing for time to come use, precisely popular 'em inwards a warm oven ... say, about 300 to 350 degrees or thus ... for near three to v minutes earlier filling to warm 'em upward a bit.

Finally, create total the cornbread cups alongside your chosen filling too serve 'em up.

Adorable. Versatile. Delicious.

Can you lot see why I'm inwards love?

Tools I used to brand these cornbread cups ...

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Cornbread Cups

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

Ingredients

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 into small-scale pieces
1 large egg, lightly beaten
3 T. ice water

Directions

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 precisely until mixture comes together into a dough too forms a ball.
Roll mixture into 48 balls, each some 1-inch inwards diameter. Grease ii 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 inwards pan for 10 minutes; thus withdraw cornbread cups to a wire rack too cool completely.
Fill alongside desired filling to serve.

NOTE: Cornbread cups may live made inwards advance, too tin live frozen. When create to serve, precisely identify the cups on a baking canvas too warm them inwards a 350 grade oven for near three minutes earlier filling.

Enjoy!

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