Homestyle Sweet Cornbread
Do you love cornbread? Make the best sweet cornbread recipe here. It's got corn, a little sweet and a great side dish to any meal.
Servings: 1 8x8 pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 can whole kernel corn (drained) or 1 1/2 cups grilled corn off cob
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400F.
- In a bowl, mix the flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt and baking powder.
- Once the dry ingredients are mixed, add the melted butter and mix again.
- Add the egg and milk and blend together.
- Dump in the canned corn and stir until mixed well. Or if you are using grilled corn, measure 1 1/2 cups of corn (around 2 cobs, depending on size)
- Butter the 8x8 pan very generously.
- Pour the mix into the pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until the toothpick comes out clean and the top is golden brown.If you are doing muffins, you they will bake around 10 minutes faster.
- IF you put in creamed corn, you may need an additional 15 minutes cooking time.
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Notes
Cornbread Tips
- It's important to mix all the dry ingredients together before adding the wet ingredients.
- The buttered pan helps keep the cornbread from sticking.
- Be sure to drain the can of corn or the mix will be very wet and need to cook even longer. It will also need additional baking time.
- Using creamed corn, will increase your baking time, up to around 15 minutes.
- Make muffins with this recipe, butter the pan or use cupcake liners.
- Baking time will decrease if you make muffins.
- Leftovers can be warmed up and served with a bit of butter.
- Use leftovers for cornbread stuffing.