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I’m excited to share with you this Honey Cornbread Recipe that just tastes amazing with your favorite comfort food. Fall is here and that means we are going to be eating Cornbread a lot around here.
Honey Cornbread Recipe:
This sweet honey corn bread recipe is a fun twist on our traditional cornbread recipe and the kids practically fight over it at dinner time. This sweet honey cornbread is moist and tender and comes out perfectly with the golden brown crusty edges.
I love making cornbread during the fall time as it is the perfect side for all of my favorite crockpot and instant pot recipes! My favorite time is when it comes fresh out of the oven! I smother the top with melted butter and it just melts in your mouth.
The Best Sweet Cornbread:
I just love the smell of homemade Sweet Honey Cornbread! When my family smells the sweet aroma of the honey cornbread baking in the oven they come rushing to the table! Everyone has a bite before they even start on their soup!
This moist cornbread recipe is the best you will ever try! This is a great cornbread to serve to your family or if you are serving it to a crowd! Making this Honey Sweet Cornbread from scratch makes it a crowd pleaser!
Tips for making Sweet Honey Cornbread:
Here are some tips and different ways of making this Sweet Honey Cornbread:
- This recipe works great if you want to make cornbread muffins in a muffin tin. You can use the mini muffin pan or a regular size works great also! Making in the muffing pan, you will only bake for about 15 minutes.
- Another way I like the honey cornbread is in my cast iron pan. Cooking it in the cast iron gives it a more rustic quality.
- When mixing your cornbread, try to not over mix the batter. If it’s over mixed, the batter could come out tough.
- Don’t overcook your cornbread. Cook until your toothpick inserted comes out clean and the center is done.
- If you have any leftover cornbread, which is very rare in my big family, you can store in a sealed container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
Ingredients:
- Flour
- Yellow Cornmeal
- Sugar
- Salt
- Baking powder or Baking soda
- Egg
- Milk
- Vegetable Oil
- Honey
How to make Honey Cornbread from scratch:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spray a square baking pan (9×9) (I love these on sale) with non stick spray.
- In a large mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients.
- Then in a separate bowl whisk your egg, milk, oil, and honey. Stir well all ingredients.
Easy kitchen tip! Spray your measuring cup with nonstick spray before you try to measure out your honey. The honey will not stick to the measuring cup at all!
- Pour the batter into your prepared pan and bake for 20 minutes in your preheated oven.
- Allow to cool, and then cut. Serve with our Homemade butter recipe.
Make this honey corn bread recipe today!
Next time you are making your favorite comfort food recipe, go ahead and try this honey corn bread recipe. It is super simple to make and the entire family will love it. It is absolutely delicious!
You can definitely use this recipe for your Thanksgiving stuffing or serve as a side to some of your favorite fall recipes!
Cornbread Variations:
There are lots of different types of cornbread, they can be sweet almost cake like or you can add in jalapenos, cheese and other fun ingredients. The options are endless!
- If you want to make your cornbread cheesy, try adding in some cheddar cheese! My cheese loving kids love when I make a batch with cheese in it!
- Do you want a little kick to your cornbread, try adding some jalapeno’s to the cornbread mix. My family loves it when I combine the cheese and jalapeno in the cornbread mix. It is the perfect combination!
- The cornbread muffins is great to make too! They are easy to grab and they are the perfect size that you will be going back for more!
Homemade Cornbread Mix:
As most of you know I am all about planning ahead with my meals! When I am meal prepping, I like to go ahead and mix up some of my Homemade Cornbread mix.
It is so easy to mix together the dry ingredients and when you are ready to mix up some cornbread all you have to do is add in the egg, milk, and oil.
This makes it so easy to have homemade cornbread anytime I want! Skipping the box stuff and making cornbread from scratch, let’s me know what I am feeding my family. Which is very important to me!
The best dinners to serve cornbread with!
Here are some of my favorite dinner recipes to serve this delicious honey cornbread recipe along with. Adding Sweet Honey Cornbread to chili or a big pot of beans is my absolute favorite!
- Crockpot Chili Recipe
- Delicious ground Turkey Chili recipe
- White Chicken Taco Chili Recipe
- Crock pot Veggie Soup
- Quick Chili Recipe
- 15 Bean Soup with Ham
- Crock Pot Pinto Beans
Check out What Goes with Cornbread for more ideas.
Print this Honey Cornbread Recipe here:
Sweet Honey Corn Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup honey
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Spray 9×9 pan with non stick spray.
- Combine all ingredients into a bowl. Stir well.
- Pour into your prepared pan and baked for 20 to 25 minutes until the corn bread is a golden brown.
- Allow to cool, and then cut. Serve with butter and enjoy!
My favorite cornbread was from a box mix: Krusteaz Honey Cornbread and I have unsuccessfully looked for a copycat recipe for a long time until now. This recipe duplicates that taste and I’m very happy that I can now make it whenever I want.
Thanks for sharing Janice – I’m so glad to hear this. I haven’t tried to this brand yet but I’m glad that this one is close to one of your favs. Thank you so much for the positive review!
This is my second time cooking this cornbread using your recipe. I am totally addicted! Thanks for sharing!
Woohoo! I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe Michele! Thank you for sharing!
I followed this recipe, simple and to the point. It came out so good. Not as sweet as I’m used to but I’m happy with it. I wouldn’t change a thing.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing and thank you so much for the positive review!
This is the best cornbread I’ve ever had! Super light and fluffy, even when made with GF flour. Next time I’d experiment with cutting some of the sugar called for, but it’s excellent as is.
I’m so glad you enjoy this recipe. Thank you for sharing and thank you for the positive review!
Delicious corn bread! It seemed too runny at first but it baked perfectly! Very moist!
Woohoo! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the positive review Amy!
Hi..what size pan would be best if I would like to double recipe?
I would use a 9X13 baking pan.
Hi Carrie. I’m making this tomorrow. Do you think I could add some canned corn to it without changing your recipe?
I haven’t tested it yet so I’m not sure. I’m thinking you would need less liquid so if you try it out, then I would reduce the milk to about 1/4 cup instead of the whole cup as the creamed corn would add moisture to the cornbread. Let me know how it turns out!
Sweet & moist. This is my new go to recipe for cornbread.
I’m so glad you like it!
Just made this! Incredible!!
I added 2 mashed sweet potatoes and made sweet potato cornbread and I cant stop eating it, have to triple the batch next time or else there wont be any to share!
Yum! That sounds delicious – Thank you for sharing!
Love this recipe. I use my Cast Iron Corn pans and they are the cutest most delicious little corn breads. I only bake for 10 minutes. I don’t think I’ll ever use another recipe
That is awesome! I’m so glad you love the recipe.
I only had white cornmeal and it was still great! I also melted a little butter in my cast iron skillet before pouring the mix in: PERFECTION!!
So glad it worked with the white cornmeal. Thank you so much for sharing!
Another great recipe!! Delicious and turned out perfectly. Thank you!
Next time if I want to double the recipe should I use a 9 x 13 pan? Should I increase the bake time?
You might have to increase it a little. I would just keep an eye on it.
Amazing! A little sweet so I’ll cut a few pinches of sugar next time. Thanks for sharing!!
THIS is the cornbread recipe I’ve been searching for for what seems like forever! It’s sweet, has a soft crumb, and the muffins come out perfect when baked for 15min. Great recipe, can’t wait to make it again!
I’m so glad you love it
Good sweet honey tasting cornbread. It was a little too sweet so I’ll reduce the amount of sugar used depending on what I’m having the cornbread with and it was a little fluffier than I wanted so I’ll reduce the amount of baking powder used as well. I cooked it in a preheated 10″ cast iron pan and it worked out well. I’ll be keeping this recipe.
Delicious corn bread. It wasn’t too sweet and had a nice taste. Mine turned out a little crumbly and dry but I added honey on top to fork together and it worked great.
I Lov your Cornbread recipe !!!
My Family will Lov this Bread for Thanksgiving this year !!!