Comments on: Corn Muffin Conspiracy

By: Donna B

Donna B — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:24:53 +0000

Not sure if you have Wegman’s grocers on the west coast but if you do check there. That is where we get them in VA. Good hunting.

By: Mary J

Mary J — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 03:04:24 +0000

Geez, was just talking about Corn Toast-R-Cakes with some friends today. I am originally from Long Island, NY but living in Northern California for 40 years. The craving for these cakes drives me crazy but they are not sold anywhere on the west coast…humbug! Need to find some long lost relatives to ship me some! Oh and then someone had to mention salt sticks! Stop, I can’t take anymore!!!!

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:22:43 +0000

I grew up mostly in Queens New York and I too moved out to Colorado and like the last commenter – Cheryl – I found them on Netgrocers.com and now order fairly regularly just to have them in the house when I am itching for them. I don’t know what they go for in New York anymore but they are $4.59 there without the cost of shipping, so they aren’t cheap but then nothing is worse then knowing you can’t have something as simple as a damn toaster corn muffin. I swear I am going to call a Thomas’ representative to find out why they aren’t sold here and get them to see the error in their ways. When I do find out or am successful in my mission I will let you all know. I did find out that a Walmart more than 50 miles away from me does carry them but it’s late in our day here now so I will have to find out tomorrow just how much more than 50 miles away is the store that sometimes carries them. By the way and just for the record since moving out here I now have places that carry Boar’s Head deli, Land-O-Lakes American Cheese, frozen blintzes and frozen Gabila’s Knishes, none of which did exist here before I started hounding several places to do so. Now I find more and more retailers carrying all of these items. I would like to believe that I has something to do with this trend. After all Trader Joe’s is in the process of building their store too. I have though failed on one thing that my daughter in law from California has begged for and even though I tried .. I mean I really tried .. In and Out just wasn’t having it. sorry ..

By: Cheryl Roberts

Cheryl Roberts — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:02:59 +0000

Just so all you jonesn people know. You can order Corn Toaster Muffins for Netgrocers.com. Price isn’t too bad and I ordered 4 packages as my brothers were missing them too.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 02:45:57 +0000

I grew up in NJ and now live in Colorado and am jonesing for Thomas’ corn muffins and of course they do not exist here!

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By: Matt Murray Sr

Matt Murray Sr — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:43:20 +0000

I am originally from Albany, NY next door to Troy, NY home of Friehofers bakery and they made a product called corn toasties that were out of this world. I now live in CA and have not been able to find anything like them. Am attempting to find a location I can create a pan to make them in. They are aproximately
3.5 ” round x 1/2 ” thick corn muffins that fit perfectly in a toaster. Tell me how can you beat that?

By: sTevo

sTevo — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:32:43 +0000

This is a sweet, cake-like corn bread that is delicious with honey butter.

2 cups Bisquick baking mix
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbsp. baking powder

In a large glass or ceramic bowl, stir all the ingredients together. Store in an airtight container.

Attach this to the Jar

California Corn Bread

1 package California Corn Bread Mix
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup butter, melted

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place the corn bread mix in a large mixing bowl and add the eggs, milk and butter. Blend until the mixture is smooth. Poor into a greased 8-inch baking pan and bake for 30 minutes

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:08:28 +0000

I grew up in upstate NY with Freighofers Corn Toasties, and have since moved. Since I can’t find anything close to them, I decided to make them myself. There are tons of recipes online that come pretty close.

http://agoodappetite.blogspot.com/2008/07/homemade-corn-toasties.html

By: Life-Long Corn Muffin/Toast-R-Cake Addict (Recovering)

Life-Long Corn Muffin/Toast-R-Cake Addict (Recovering) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:12:32 +0000

I was born and reared in the mid-state counties of NY (Putnam/Westchester/Dutchess). I could ramble on for hours (in mind-numbing fashion) about the delicate intricacies of NY Corn Muffin Lore. The distinction between dessert and meal style Corn Muffins is far to complex and important to be expressed in mere natural language. Toast-R-Cakes frame the divided line between styles of Corn Muffins and are an entity in and of themselves.

Now in Arizona, I made a visit to NY in 2005. Before returning to AZ, I froze and air-shipped some Toast-R-Cakes and some bakery style corn muffins (with huge crowns) from A&P and shipped them ahead of me. It was a month of corn-bliss back in AZ, but the addiction was re-awakened.

If you live in NY, A&P has(had?) what I call the gold-standard in store-baked corn muffins. I don’t know if they still use the same mix; it was made by pillsbury; but my research leads me to believe that it has been discontinued.

But I save the best part of the story for last. Netgrocer (owned by the Wakefern Foods/ShopRite) now ships Thomas Toast-R-Cakes anywhere within the continental US. The price isn’t too bad, even with shipping. They pack them quite carefully, and they arrive in good shape – although I don’t order them in the summer, because the hot FedEx trucks here in AZ ruin them.

Alas, even though you can now have your Toast-R-Cakes anywhere, I’m still convinced that the Corn lifestyle will never leave its north-east nest. Much like Chinese Food, it is as essential nature of the
region that just can’t be extracted to elsewhere.