Corn Muffins Ala Kenny Rogers - 2 Baking Methods Which Do You Prefer?

Kenny Rogers Corn Muffins how many of us can resist the temptation of having them when dinning in the restaurant itself, I for one definitely can't resist. Countless of search over the net with for the recipe eventually came down to 2 of them for me to try out, and i did the 2 baking methods tonight so that i could compare which of these 2 methods are more alike to the real Kenny Roger Corn Muffins in terms of taste and texture.

1st Method (stir and mix method):

Corn Muffins
makes 24 cups
(adapted from My Culinary Journal with slight modifications)

Ingredients
2 cups self raising flour
2 cups yellow cornmeal
2/3 cup caster sugar
2/3 cup honey
2 eggs
2 cups milk
2/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 box del monte cream style corn
1 box del monte fresh corn kernels, drained

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
2. In a large bowl, combine flour, cornmeal and sugar. Stir in eggs, milk, honey, vegetable oil and cream corn until well combined. Fold in corn kernels. Pour batter into paper cups.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 20-25mins, or until golden brown.

Verdict:
taste good when warm but i found it to be a little dry for my taste shall add in more milk/cream corn if baking these again. Honey taste is quite prominent. Overall quite good but texture and taste has no likening to the real one.

2nd Method (creaming method)

Corn Muffins
makes 24 cups
(adapted from foodgoat with slight modifications)

Ingredients
250g unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 cup self raising flour
3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup milk
1/2 box del monte cream style corn
1 box del monte fresh corn kernels, drained

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
2. Cream together butter, sugar, honey, in a large bowl.
3. Add flour, cornmeal, cream corn and blend thoroughly. Add milk while mixing.
4. Fold in corn kernels until well combined.
5. Pour batter into paper cups till 90% full and bake for 25mins or until golden brown.

Verdict:
Good! Soft and very moist taste almost like the real one but texture has no similarities maybe because butter is used here instead of vegetable oil and it brings out the corn flavor more. I would opt to bake this then the 1st one. So dear readers please try and let me know which one do you prefer!

And now i would like to express my thanks to Cooking Gallery and 我的厨房乐园 for presenting me with these 2 rewards respectively:

This is the 1st time i am ever presented with awards and you could imagine my awe when i saw my name in their blogs below the award logo. From the start of my blogging til now i had made numerous blogger friends and all of them are so nice and friendly with encouraging words to each and every of my post and i sincerely thank all you who had dropped by j3ss kitch3n and hope we have more baking/cooking adventures to come now and in the future! Cheers!