I picked up a box of the Baker's Corner Hot Honey cornbread mix today, as it was marked down to 69 cents at my local store. I never buy cornbread mix, just because I tend to have all the ingredients for cornbread at home, but the price intrigued me and when I saw that it did not have lard like many other cornbread mixes tend to have, I was sold.
This box contained ~2.75 cups of dry mix and recommends mixing in 2 eggs, 6 tbsp of melted butter, and 3/4 cup of water. Instead of water, I used 1/4 cup of sour cream and 1/2 cup of half and half doctored with a big splash of bottled lime juice to approximate something like buttermilk. I also added a few shakes of garlic powder, 2oz of shredded gouda cheese, and 1 stalk's worth of green onion. I baked it in muffin liners for 16 minutes at 400°F, and they came out perfectly. Tastewise, they had a strong dried pepper smell, but they weren't overwhelmingly spicy. They were not as sweet as I expected, which I liked since it meant I could add a little drizzle of honey on top of the baked muffin. All the additional ingredients were Aldi ingredients btw.
Overall, pretty happy with the risk I took on this mix! At the current price, it was worth trying, but I probably won't buy more unless it gets marked down further. I've seen these drop to $0.19 in past seasons, so I guess people in my area aren't huge fans of these mixes. The other one being sold was the cinnamon churro cornbread mix, which I did not purchase.
