Description
Ingredients
For this classic Albers cornbread recipe, you’ll need:
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- 1 cup Albers yellow corn meal (the star of the show!)
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- 1 cup all-purpose flour
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- ¼ cup granulated sugar (add up to ⅓ cup if you like it sweeter)
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- 1 tablespoon baking powder
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- ½ teaspoon salt
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- 1 cup milk
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- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
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- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
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- 2 tablespoons honey (my secret ingredient!)
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- 2 tablespoons melted butter (for that gorgeous golden top)
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 400°F. While it’s warming up, lightly grease an 8×8-inch baking pan or a 9-inch round cake pan. I prefer cast iron for that crispy edge, but any pan works great!
In a large bowl, whisk together the Albers corn meal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Make sure to break up any lumps – nobody wants to bite into a powder pocket!
Pro tip: I like to sift the baking powder to ensure it’s distributed evenly. This helps your cornbread rise beautifully and evenly every time.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk, vegetable oil, egg, and honey until well combined. The honey might want to stick to your measuring spoon – just run it under hot water first and it’ll slide right off!
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir just until combined. This is where restraint comes in – overmixing is the enemy of tender cornbread! A few small lumps are actually good here.
“My grandmother always said cornbread batter should only get about 20 stirs total. Any more and you’re making corn cake, not cornbread!”
Pour the batter into your prepared pan, smoothing it out with a spatula. Drizzle the melted butter over the top – this gives you that irresistible golden crust. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the edges are just starting to pull away from the sides.
Let your cornbread cool in the pan for about 5-10 minutes before cutting. This resting time lets the texture set up just right. Then slice it up and watch it disappear!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 210
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