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These salted Honey Butter Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits are soft, buttery, perfectly salted, and made with spicy jalapeños and sharp cheddar cheese. Each light and flaky biscuit muffin is wonderful right out of the oven with a smear of sweet honey butter. Everyone loves these yummy drop-style biscuits. They really do melt in your mouth. Plus, you’ll just love how easy they are to make!

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These are fun, cute, and easy too! The story around these is pretty simple but I’ll break it up into two parts. Part one. Come summertime, like clockwork, I think about southern recipes. What would my grandma be serving at our Sunday night dinners or weekly cookouts?

Cornbread was always a favorite with our family. Both my grandma and my mom enjoy baking cornbread, and of course, they love eating it even more.

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I’ve carried on the tradition, but I do love to switch things up a little. That’s when I thought about making a cornmeal biscuit! Both my mom and I loved the idea, so I started testing these weeks ago. They were good, but they gave me some trouble. And then I came up with these!

Say hello to the biscuit muffin. These are simple drop-style biscuits baked in mini muffins. They could not be easier, cuter, or more convenient to serve and eat.

I know you’ll love this recipe!

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The details

Step 1: brown the butter 

First, brown some of the butter – 4 tablespoons on the stove. This will add wonderful flavor to our biscuit muffins.

Pour the browned butter over the cold buttermilk, then mix into the batter.

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Step 2: make the batter

Mix whole wheat flour and cornmeal with baking powder, salt, and black pepper. Then add 1 stick of cold, shredded butter. If you’ve never shredded butter before, it’s just like shredding cheese! So simple, and a great trick when working to create a flaky biscuit.

Once the butter is mixed in, add the jalapeños and cheddar cheese to the mixture.

Now add the wet ingredients: cold buttermilk, then the reserved browned butter, eggs, and some honey. Mix, mix, mix to just gently combine the dough.

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Step 3: bake

Scoop the batter into a buttered mini muffin pan or you can use a regular muffin/cupcake pan too.

Bake until they turn a pretty golden brown color.

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Step 4: make the honey butter 

The honey butter is just softened butter mixed with honey and sea salt.

Brush/spread the butter over the warm biscuits. I love to serve these up warm, with sea salt on top. A sprinkle of sea salt makes every bite of these soft, spicy, cheesy biscuits just that much better.

Great as a summer side, appetizer, and even come fall as a game-day snack OR as a dinner biscuit. You really can’t go wrong!

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Looking for other savory bread recipes? Try these.

Salted Honey Butter Jalapeño Cheddar Rolls

Salted Honey Butter Parker House Rolls

Jalapeño Cheddar Popovers with Honey Butter

Soft Garlic Herb Cheddar Cheese Bread

Swirled Garlic Herb Bread

Jalapeño Cheddar Biscuits

Lastly, if you make these Honey Butter Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits, be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! Above all, I love to hear from you guys and always do my best to respond to each and every comment. And of course, if you do make this recipe, don’t forget to tag me on Instagram! Looking through the photos of recipes you all have made is my favorite!

Honey Butter Jalapeño Cheddar Cornbread Biscuits

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 24 biscuit muffins
Calories Per Serving: 144 kcal

Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.

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Ingredients

Honey Butter

Instructions

  • 1. Preheat the oven to 350° F. Butter a 24-cup mini muffin pan or 12-cup regular pan.
    2. Add 6 tablespoons cold butter to a skillet set over medium heat. Cook until the butter begins to brown, about 3-4 minutes. Let cool.
    3. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, salt, and pepper. Add 6 tablespoons of cold shredded butter and mix to combine. Mix in the jalapeños and cheese. Pour the brown butter over the buttermilk. Add the egg and honey. Mix until just combined, adding additional buttermilk as needed.
    4. Divide the batter evenly among the prepared pan. Bake 12 – 16 minutes for mini muffins or 22-30 for regular muffins.
    5. To make the honey butter. Combine the butter, honey, and a pinch of salt together in a small bowl.
    6. Remove the biscuit muffins from the oven, then run a knife around the edges to release them. Brush/smear with honey butter. Enjoy warm.
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  1. Love this recipe! Have made GF before and they are just as good. Wanted to ask – do you think you can make the batter the day before and put in tins and bake the next day?

    1. Hey Christina,
      Thank you so much for giving this recipe a try and sharing your thoughts, so happy it worked for you!

      I would just fully make them a day in advance:)

      Have a great Thanksgiving!