This sweet buttery cornbread is light and fluffy with a perfect crumb. It has a delightful hint of golden honey. This will easily become your favorite homemade cornbread recipe!
SWEET BUTTERY CORNBREAD RECIPE
This cornbread recipe makes adorable mini muffins! But you can also bake cornbread in a square baker, in muffin cups, or in a loaf pan. For large family gatherings, double this cornbread recipe. Once your family tastes these sweet buttery muffins, they’ll be begging for more!
INGREDIENTS FOR CORNBREAD RECIPE
- 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup Albers yellow corn meal
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 & 1/4 cup milk
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 6 tablespoons butter, finely chopped into teeny tiny pieces
KITCHEN TOOLS FOR CORNBREAD RECIPE
These are helpful kitchen tools for making a wide variety of recipes, including these buttery cornbread muffins.
HOW TO MAKE CORNBREAD
This is how to make cornbread, step by step:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Put all dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl.
- Briefly mix to combine.
- Add all remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl.
- Mix until just blended. Do NOT overmix.
- Using a small cookie scoop fill two mini muffin pans with cornbread batter 2/3 full.
- Bake one pan of cornbread at a time in the middle of the oven for 7 minutes.
- Remove each pan from the oven promptly before the cornbread edges become brown.
- The cornbread’s sides should be the same soft buttery yellow color as the top of the muffins – not brown.
- Allow the cornbread muffins to cool in the pan for 5 minutes.
- Using a skinny spatula, gently remove the mini cornbread from the pan and transfer to a cooling rack.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
Sweet Buttery Cornbread Recipe
- Total Time: 17 minutes
- Yield: 56 mini muffins 1x
Description
This sweet buttery cornbread is a traditional bread basket favorite! Serve with soup or salad or a delicious bowl of chili. This cornbread recipe is also perfect for Thanksgiving!
Ingredients
- 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup Albers yellow corn meal
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 & 1/4 cup milk
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 6 tablespoons butter, finely chopped into teeny tiny pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Put all dry ingredients into a large mixing bowl. Briefly mix to combine. Add all remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl. Mix until just blended. Do NOT overmix.
- Using a small cookie scoop fill two mini muffin pans with cornbread batter 2/3 full.
- Bake one pan of cornbread at a time in the middle of the oven for 7 minutes. Remove each pan from the oven promptly before the cornbread edges become brown. The cornbread’s sides should be the same soft buttery yellow color as the top of the muffins – not brown.
- Allow the cornbread muffins to cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Using a skinny spatula, gently remove the mini cornbread from the pan and transfer to a cooling rack. Serve warm or at room temperature with additional butter and honey.
Notes
RECIPE YIELD: This homemade cornbread recipe makes 56 mini muffins OR 18 regular-sized muffins OR one 8-inch-square loaf of cornbread.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 7 minutes
- Category: Bread
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: Cornbread, Sweet Buttery Cornbread, Cornbread Recipe, Sweet Cornbread, Thanksgiving Recipe, Bread Recipe
Pair Up Cornbread with Scrumptious Chili!
Delicious! Sweet, incredibly light and great with soups!
My my ..these are scrumptious !!!!!,the color of recipe is tempting ,I’m definitely making this for my Hubby and surely he is gonna luv every bit of this cornbread ..your recipes are easy to follow ..luvd it
I made this tonight with chili and everyone loved it. It was so good and had the perfect little hint of sweetness from the honey. I didn’t add extra on top. We will definitely be making this again!
Stacy thanks so much for taking the time to share your love for this yummy cornbread recipe. I appreciate your sweet comment! :-)
Wanted to make this but the recipe link is down =(
https://www.confettiandbliss.com/recipes/food/cornbread-recipe/2/
I don’t have mini muffin tins. Any thoughts to how long to bake them in regular muffin tins?
Hi Brooke. I love your name – it’s my daughter’s name too! :-) When using regular muffin pans bake the cornbread at 350 degrees in the center of your oven for 18-20 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the middle of a muffin comes out clean. At about the 15-minute mark start keeping an eye on the muffins just to make sure they remain buttery yellow in color and don’t get too brown on the tops and edges. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Thank you! You are so prompt! Looking forward to making these babies for Thanksgiving.
I made these last night and the flavor was AMAZING!! My entire family devoured them quickly. I had one small problem: they stuck to the muffin pan! I sprayed each well of the pan with cooking spray and let them cool 5 minutes, but they still stuck. Do you have any suggestions for how to prevent this? Thanks a bunch!
Hi Tina. I am so happy to hear that you and your family loved this cornbread recipe! I’m planning on making these little beauties again for Thanksgiving along with fluffy homemade biscuits. I bake my cornbread muffins in the non-stick pans shown in one of the photos in this post. But I also put some softened butter on a paper towel and lightly butter each muffin hole on the non-stick pans. It adds just a little bit of extra buttery taste to the final product and helps prevent sticking. To remove the muffins from the non-stick pans I use a skinny silicone spatula. With each large batch of muffins I might have maybe one or two that will stick a bit, but the others all release cleanly. I hope these tips will be of help the next time you bake up another yummy batch! Happy holidays to you and your family. :-)
Saving this for later! These will make a great side when it cools down here in California and I make chili in the crock pot!
Yum! This cornbread sounds really good!
I love cornbread and it’s been so long… and I love the idea of honey in it! This chili looks to die for – I pinned both! Thanks!
Hello Clare. I’m so happy that you love these yummy recipes! Thank you so much for pinning them to Pinterest. I want you to know how much I appreciate that. Have a great weekend. :-)
I haven’t had cornbread in such a long time but these look so simple and delicious to make. Will definitely be incorporating this in a meal at some point next week, I love cornbread. :)
I LOVE cornbread! I just had some last week… I will have to try and make it myself, and I will start with your recipe! thank you for sharing, your pix of those delicious cornbread muffins make my mouth water! yum!
These cornbread muffins look like the ones my mom use to make. She wouldn’t make them as muffins but in a square pan. I love this recipe (which is close to her’s) because there is an awesome sweetness and butter goodness to them. Taste great with a little more butter on them or with some chili on top. These look delicious! I will have to try this recipe! Thanks for sharing!!
Yum! I love cornbread! These are such fun little bites too!
I want a cookie scoop like that! Years ago, I worked in a university kitchen, and we had them in all sizes, from little one ounce ones right up to jumbo muffin tin sizes. I don’t know why I never thought to check Amazon.
And I think we’ll have cornbread muffins tomorrow for breakfast. I love how you showed pictures of each of the ingredients. :)
My family is originally from the east coast/ the south and my Dad always used to make homemade cornbread. One of my favorites:) thanks for sharing this recipe!
Yum! That cornbread looks delicious. I’ll have to use it next time we make chili, thanks!
These sound fantastic! I always love the idea of little cornbread muffins so I don’t eat so many! Yum!
Mmmmmm cornbread! Homemade cornbread!!! PERFECT addition to that amazing chili recipe!
I love cornbread muffins and this recipe looks delicious! It’s so good paired with soup!
You recipe is similar to mine. We started grown our our corn and grinding our cornmeal. Even better.
Can you believe I’ve never tried this bread? I going to get those ingredients ASAP and follow this amazing recipe! Can’t wait to try it.
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Yum! Cornbread is one of my absolute favorites(especially with a little bit of honey) and these look amazing! Cornbread is one of the go to dinner breads in our house (goes with just about anything), can’t wait to try your recipe :-)
These muffins looks simply perfect!
I LOVE cornbread, oh my gosh. I love the addition of honey! Thanks for posting this!
I love homemade corn bread! Looks delicious.
These looks so yum! I have not tried Corn Breads ever but your post makes me crave for theses. I will definitely try them myself! Thanks for sharing :)