Cornbread
My family and I are really picky about cornbread. As far as I am concerned, it has to be really moist, and I actually prefer it on the sweet side! Especially when it is paired with a spicy chili (or the black bean soup that is following this post), it seems to be a nice balance.
My sister and I were complaining how there aren’t really any good mixes, (except for one that was like $8!) I finally decided that it was too ridiculous, and it was time to come up with a good recipe for super tender, moist, slightly sweet cornbread. Well, this was it. Very easy, and so good that I just about ate the whole pan while I “sampled” it ☺
Cornbread
1 cup cornmeal, (fine grind)
1 cup AP flour
1/2 cup sugar
½ tsp salt
1 Tbs baking powder
1 egg
5Tbs melted butter
1 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare a 8×8” glass baking dish with baking spray.
Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a medium sized mixing bowl.
Melt the butter.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, melted butter and egg.
(beat egg first)
(add the buttermilk first so that the hot butter doesn’t cook the egg)
(add the butter to the other wet ingredients)
Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well.
Pour the batter into the baking dish and bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.
Top with butter and honey and serve hot!
I’ve never attempted cornbread, but love it so. And having a sweet version is a must. Will certainly have to test out this recipe!
Will make this for Saturday with your previous chili recipe for our Husky tailgate. Thank you.
I’d love to make your cornbread. It sounds perfect. However you say 5 oz cup of melted butter and I’m a little confused at what that means. From the picture it looks like 1/4 cup or possibly 5 TBSP. Can you please clarify? Thank you.
I do mean 5 Tbs of butter! This is very interesting! I had not seen that typo before, and I have had a bunch of people make the cornbread with 5OZ of butter, (which would be over a stick of butter) and they thought it was great! (reviewed over at Tastykitchen.com-probably VERY moist!). Thank you for the note so I can fix both!
Excellent! Thanks. I’m making your 5 alarm chili and this cornbread tonight. 🙂
Great! I am so excited! In fact- that sounds good! The chili isn’t actually that spicy- so have some hot sauce handy!