I love cornbread, but it always came out too dry and crumbly.
Until I tried this recipe.
This cornbread was moist and easy to make. Even better, all of the ingredients are probably already in your pantry.
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg, beaten
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Spray a round pie plate (regular or deep dish) with cooking spray.
- Mix together the flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- Stir in milk, vegetable oil and egg. Mix just until the dough is moistened.
- Pour the batter into the pie plate.
- Bake 20-25 minutes, or until golden-brown.
The original recipe called for a 8 or 9 inch square pan, but I much prefer the pie plate. The depth is perfect and you end up with perfect slices for each serving.
I really like cornbread when you are making a one-dish meal for dinner. It simply feels like a more complete meal when you have 2 separate things on your plate. And with the cornbread taking no more than 30 minutes to make, there’s no excuse for not whipping up a batch.
I discovered this recipe on Food.com. It has 31 reviews and averages 4+ stars. The reviewers tried a lot tweaks.
Here are the substitutions the reviewers said worked great:
- used 2 egg whites instead of 1 egg, and low fat sour cream instead of oil
- used egg substitute and soy milk
- made it gluten-free by using a gluten free all-purpose flour blend
- used Splenda instead of sugar and whole wheat flour
- reduce the sugar to 2 tablespoons
- used 1 cup cornmeal, 1/2 cup white flour and 1/2 cup white whole wheat flour
- combine the dry ingredients in a freezer bag and store in the freezer until ready to add the liquid ingredients
- baked in a muffin tin with 1/4 cup of batter each, yields 9 cornbread muffins
- baked in a cast iron skillet that was preheated before filling
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We really enjoyed this cornbread……..it’s not too sweet like others that I’ve made before. It’s simple and was a great side for a casserole dish. Thanks for sharing, Karen. Made for First Time Tag.
I’m so glad you liked it as much as I do! And such gorgeous pictures!!!
Made as written for the FF&F Autumn Fever Tag Game & you definitely named this recipe perfectly. It was indeed a very fast, easy-fix w/an ideal level of sweetness for us. It was made in a fairly shallow non-stick pie plate & transferred easily & intact to a serving platter as you will see in 1 of my pics. We enjoyed this very much & I expect it will be made often. Thanks for sharing the recipe w/us. 🙂
Oh dear, I’m not sure what I did, but it didn’t turn out as good as I expected. I may have under-baked it, although a toothpick in the center came out clean. Next time, I’ll use my cast iron skillet and bake it a little longer at a slightly lower temp. But it was fast and easy!! DH thought it was great!