After I got home from church I opened my fridge to try and figure out what we would have for dinner that night. I happened to have a few pounds of ground beef thawed. It also happened to be 7 degrees when we left for church this morning. Seven. I was chilly!
Which leads me to a nice big bowl of homemade chili.
Chilly. Chili. Get it?
Anywho, I dont want to bore you with my chili recipe. Its nothing too special. However, I did inquire about your favorite chili recipes and got a lot of amazing and ingenious tips. And yes, I totally added cocoa this time. Loved it!
But the star of my show was the cornbread. I cant help. I am a carb girl ok?
Tips for Success:
I used corn that we had left over from the night before. It worked very well. I heard frozen works great because canned corn tends to have lots of extra moisture and can prevent your bread from achieving the perfect crumb.
Why soak the cornmeal? Not only does it help in digestion, but it also helps ensure a moist cornbread. If you omit the soaking step, your cornbread might have a more gritty consistency. And we all know that I basically want everything to have a cake-like consistency right?
See those real pieces of corn in there? They are divine. The whole recipe is divine. You will never ever ever regret making this sweet cornbread. In fact, you might find that people suddenly love you more and offer to do things for you in exchange for some of your famous cornbread.
It could happen.
Just make it. Then immediately text me and say, “You were right. This is amazing.”
And I will text back, “Who is this? How did you get my number? And you are welcome. Lets be friends.”
I’m easy like that.
Want more great chili? Try Grandma’s Homemade Chili over on iamhomesteader!
Sweet Cornbread with Real Corn
Ingredients
- 1 c yellow cornmeal
- 1 c milk
- 1 c all-purpose flour
- 2/3 c white sugar
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1/2 c frozen corn I used leftovers
- 1/3 c melted butter
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees and prepare chosen pan.
- In a medium bowl combine yellow cornmeal and milk. Let sit for about 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. To that add egg, melted butter, and soaked cornmeal and mix well.
- Fold in corn.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- If making muffins bake for 18-20 minutes.
- If making in 8 or 9in cake pan bake for 20-25 minutes.
- If baking in square muffin pan bake for about 12-14 minutes.
- If using pan not listed, but sure to check cornbread at about 10 minutes and determine how much more baking is needed at that time.
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Teehee I won’t creep and text you but we totes SHOULD be friends.Then I’d get to try this cornbread ;). I blog about baking too – though your photos are so freaking amazing it sort of blows my mind. Do you think a cast iron pan is absolutely essential to cornbread? Or can I use just a pyrex baking dish?
Have a lovely week!
Jess
Sounds like a plan! 🙂
Amanda! They turned out delicious despite being a little gritty, guess I need to increase my soak time. 🙂
Could you please send me the recipie to your homeade chili! It looks absolutely delicious! I would like to make it along with this bread! Thanks a million!
I will have to try and post it! 🙂
Cornbread really good but a little too sweet. I will cut back on sugar next time I make it.
So delish. I’ve never soaked the cornmeal before, what a difference. Thank you!
Awesome site…. love the recipe & pic
I will make the recipe and will tell later how it w not Blessings🌼
Can’t wait to try the cornbread and chili. Never heard of cocoa in it. How much to a lb of meat
WOW. Just WOW! I cannot believe how wonderful these are! And the 10 min soak time is DEFINITELY worth it. Not gritty at all.
Thank you for sharing!
Really good! I made half sweet and half spicy; added jalapeños and cheese to the other half! Loved the texture, the soaking for 10 minutes was such a game changer!