Here’s a fun little recipe that will fit perfectly into your April Fools Day party – you know the party where you’re supposed to bring a “wacky” food or a “surprise” food, but you still want that food to be good? Well, here you go. Innocent-looking, cheese topped corn muffins with varying ingredients hidden inside (all deliciously edible, of course). I like to use small broccoli florets and miniature hotdogs, for the sole reason that I can make secret dirty jokes whenever people ask me what they’re called.
You could call these little corn muffins by many different names:
Surprise Muffins?
Weenie Sneak Attack!
Bush or Wiener?
…Aaand, maybe my secret dirty jokes aren’t so secret after all.
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup corn meal
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon dill
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 cup buttermilk (or ½ cup sour cream + ½ cup water)
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 teaspoons yellow mustard
- 6 mini weenies
- 6 small broccoli florets
- ¼ cup grated parmesan or cheddar
- Preheat oven to 400 F
- Grease 12 muffin cups well.
- Whisk dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Combine buttermilk, eggs, oil and mustard in a separate bowl.
- Add the wet to the dry and combine well. Mixture will be thick.
- Place 1 tablespoon batter in the bottom of each muffin cup. Press a mini-weenie or a broccoli floret upright into the batter.
- Cover with another 2 tablespoons of batter, making sure the “surprise” is completely covered.
- Sprinkle each muffin with about a teaspoon of cheese.
- Bake 18 minutes or until puffed and golden and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Serve hot.
Here’s a few more ideas for April Fools Recipes I found for you.
Fried Rice Cupcakes
My mom will be making a version of this Meatloaf Cake
This Dog Food Dip actually looks pretty delish
And check out this video from AverageBetty for some more prank ideas!
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You are so incredibly, awesomely naughty
How fun for April Fools’! “Would you prefer bush or wiener in your muffin?” Thanks for the love <3
I thought you might like this!
Happy weekend, Sara! <3
You also could recycle Halloween baking recipes for April Fools, such as kitty litter cake, worm dirt cake, or broken glass cake.
Wow, I’ve seen the kitty litter cake (yuck!) but the broken glass cake is new to me. Sounds pretty good, really!
Bwahahaha- weenie! Though I was looking forward to finally getting that recipe to your infamous kitty tacos. There’s always next year!
Haha! That recipe needs a little work before I can present it to the world. Namely, I need to figure out how to get the kitties to be still for the pictures.