Myron Mixon’s World-Famous Cupcake Chicken

INGREDIENTS

• 12 medium skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs
• 2 cups Jack’s Old South Huney Muney Cluck Rub, or 1 recipe Basic Chicken Rub page 20)
• 3 1/4 cups chicken broth
• Salt, to taste
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1 cup Jack’s Old South Vinegar Sauce or Basic Vinegar Sauce (page 22)
• 2 cups Jack’s Old South Hickory Sauce or Basic Hickory Sauce (page 22)
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 cup honey
• 1 cup maple syrup
• 1 1/4 cups seedless blackberry preserves
• 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
• Poultry shears
• 1 silicone cupcake mold, with holes punched through each cup (or an aluminum cupcake pan, also with holes punched through each cup)
• 1 13 x 9-inch aluminum baking pan
• 1 aluminum baking sheet