Easiest Way to Make Perfect Cornbread (Muffins or Bread)

Cornbread (Muffins or Bread). Cornbread is any quick bread containing cornmeal, popular in Native American cuisine as well as well as in Greek, Portuguese and in Turkish cuisine. They are usually leavened by baking powder. Super moist, not crumby, and so tasty they can be eaten plain.

You can whip up the batter in no time! My kids love them so much that I'm constantly swatting their little hands away from the bread basket so they don't fill up before the main course. This Gluten-Free Cornbread recipe can be made into gluten-free cornbread muffins or in the gluten-free cornbread bar form. You can cook Cornbread (Muffins or Bread) using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cornbread (Muffins or Bread)

1. You need of cornmeal.
2. Prepare of all purpose flour.
3. Prepare of baking powder.
4. You need of baking soda.
5. It's of salt.
6. It's of unsalted butter, melted then cooled slightly.
7. Prepare of light brown sugar.
8. Prepare of honey.
9. You need of large egg, room temperature.
10. Prepare of buttermilk, room temperature.
11. Prepare of For Muffin Variation Add:.
12. Prepare of vegetable oil.
13. It's of Optional Add In's...Add up to 1 cup (total) of the following :.
14. It's of ·Corn Kernels.
15. Prepare of ·Diced Jalapenos.
16. You need of ·Shredded Cheddar Cheese.
17. You need of ·Blueberries.
18. It's of ·Dried Cranberries and Walnuts.

I like to make my These gluten-free cornbread muffins are the kind that you ladle chili over, the kind that you mop up the last of your stew with. It's my tried and true. • Basic Corn Bread • Buttermilk Corn Bread • Mexican Cornbread • Cornbread With Corn • Sweet Corn Muffins. Cornbread muffins are basically cornbread baked in the form of muffins whereas corn muffins are a muffin recipe made with similar ingredients but a lot more sugar. Corn muffins refer to the an actual muffin recipe, while cornbread muffins can refer to how cornbread is shaped.

Cornbread (Muffins or Bread) step by step

1. Whisk together in a medium bowl the cornmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside..
2. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the butter, brown sugar and honey until all combined and no lumps of sugar remains. Then whisk in the egg until just combined. Then whisk in the buttermilk..
3. If making muffins rather than the bread, whisk in the vegetable oil to the wet mix along with the honey and sugar***.
4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and whisk until just combined. Careful not to overmix. In using an add-in ingredient, fold them in now..
5. For Muffins: Spoon batter into greased muffin tins (either normal sized or mini), filling all the way to the top. Cooking times and temperatures for muffins listed in Step 6 and Step 7. For bread, skip to Step 8..
6. For Normal Sized Muffins: Bake for 5 minutes at 425°F, then while keeping the muffins in the oven, lower the temperature to 350°F. Continue baking for another 15-17 minutes. Use a toothpick to test if centers are cooked through..
7. For Mini Muffins: Bake for 350°F for 8-10 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean (mini muffins pictured)..
8. For Bread: Grease and lightly flour a 9 inch square baking pan. Pour batter in and bake for 20 minutes at 400°F, until golden brown on top and a toothpick comes out of the center clean. Allow to cool for at least 10-15 minutes before slicing..
9. Store leftovers at room temperature for up to 1 week..

From sweet light-textured muffins to spicy jalapeno cornbread and hearty whole-kernel loaves, it's a versatile and delicious side dish, breakfast bread or snack. These sweet muffins incorporate corn kernels as well as corn meal for a bigger corn taste. These corn muffins are basically the corniest of corn muffins out there! If you've ever made cornbread, you know that you typically use much more flour than cornmeal, but in these muffins, the ratio is reversed. I balked at it at first because I thought that they could be a little dry and dense.