Cornbread Surprise

Love me some cornbread! Love me some cornDOGS! Do not love the frying, grease, and picking off the coating that comes with corndogs.

So I saw a post on Pinterest where someone had made cornbread muffins with a quarter of a hot dog in it. Clever! We're lazy around here, and muffins have a way of generating more crumbs that I want to deal with. Hence the birth of Cornbread Surprise. I can't figure out yet how to turn pictures, so I'm going to be missing a few - darn it all, Blogger! Anyway, the ingredients are simple - and you absolutely need an adorable little helper to come and steal a hot dog and eat it while you work. It's just sort of a rule.

Cornbread Surprise

1 box Jiffy Cornbread mix

1 egg

1/3 C milk

3 - 5 hot dogs, depending on how many will get pilfered while you're preparing it

Preheat oven per directions on the box - probably around 400 or 425. Make cornbread mix with milk and egg.  Slice hot dogs into non-choking kid size and add to cornbread batter. Grease a 9 inch square baking dish. Pour in batter and shimmy the dish so it spreads out evenly. That's a technical term, by the way, "shimmy." 

Bake 12 - 18 minutes until the edges are browned. It has to look sort of "overdone" just a little so you're sure the center is all cooked. Let it cool for a couple of minutes while your kids swarm around you begging to eat it. Those crispy edge pieces are the best...tell the kids that part is "burned" but that Mommy will take one for the team and eat that part. 

Slice into 9 servings and serve warm with a glass of milk and carrot sticks. Enjoy 5 minutes of quiet while your kids are focused on eating this delightful corndog substitute. 

Later, 'taters!