Do you love cornbread? Do you find that is can be too dry or too crumbly that you have trouble when you try to put a little butter on it. This won’t happen with this gorgeous Best Cast Iron Southern Cornbread! This cornbread is moist and holds together beautifully and you can slather the butter right on top of each slice if you like!
Plus there is no fiddling with muffin cups to make muffins it is all just poured into a cast iron pan. It slices magnificently and your pan needs very little clean up either. I also like the rustic charm of serving this right out of the cast iron pan. It is an easy recipe to make for a BBQ and everyone will be crowded around wanting more!!
Our daughter Amber is on a cornbread kick at the moment so she was thrilled and really liked this recipe. She is becoming a bit of an afficionado of cornbread as she has been ordering it everywhere we go and been making it at home too. Her complaint of other cornbread is that they fall apart or have little bits of hard corn in them. This has neither of those issues.
Whip up a pan today, cornbread goes wonderfully with so many dishes, ENJOY!!
Best Cast Iron Southern Cornbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup flour
- 1 Tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup butter melted + 2 Tbsp. for the pan
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Mix the two milks and the cornmeal together in a medium bowl and set aside for 5 min. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
- Stir into the milk mixture the egg and 1/4 cup melted butter. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined, batter will still be lumpy.
- Heat the 10″ cast iron pan on low and melt the 2 Tbsp. of butter. Pour the cornbread batter in and bake for 20-25 min. until set and golden brown.
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Comments & Reviews
Tammy says
Southern cornbread does not have sugar in it.
Tara Noland says
We like that little sweetness in ours!
Beth Estes says
I dpn’t like sweet cornbread. Would it be okay to leave out the sugar?
Tara Noland says
All corn bread has sugar in it, I think removing all of it would be a mistake. This recipe is already lower in sugar than my usual corn bread muffins (1/3 cup sugar), but you could reduce it maybe to 1/8 cup.
trina says
Most southern cornbread has no sugar. That being said, my Northerner husband likes his cornbread sweet so I use 2 tablespoons of sugar. Just a hint of sweetness without tasting too sweet.
Tara Noland says
Well, we are Northerners here and have always put sugar in our “Southern” cornbread. Good idea though with just a little less sugar, we will try that! Thanks!
Linda D says
No sugar for this southern woman’s cornbread! I like it savory.
Del's cooking twist says
My boyfriend is crazy about cornbread, I should try your recipe!
Debra @ Bowl Me Over says
Your recipe looks simple and perfect! Cooking cornbread in cast iron gives it such a great crust too. Love that heavy old skillet of mine!!
Florian @ContentednessCooking says
Homemade is the best! Love how easy this is with so minimalist ingredients!
Cheryl Curtis says
Next time instead of butter, put bacon grease in the pan when cooking your cornbread!!!! My mom did it that way and omg it tastes so good!!!!!
Tara Noland says
I can only imagine how good that would be, true southern cooking!!
Loette DePoy says
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Loette DePoy says
This will be my first time trying this. Do I use plain or cornmeal mix, all purpose or self rising flour.
This looks really good.
Kat Tyler says
Awesome can’t wait to try it! Thank you!
Tara Noland says
Enjoy, I know you will like this recipe!!
Kat Tyler says
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Kat Tyler says
Help please! I have read the recipe over and over and cannot find where it tells you what size of cast iron skillet to bake it in. I own 3 different sizes. I would love to try this but the size of the skillet I would think would be crucial to its success. Thank you!
Tara Noland says
Hi Kat, it is a 10″ cast iron pan. Good point and thank you for noting the omission!
Patty Haxton Anderson says
Cornbread is a favorite and I love that this is a basic recipe without a lot of junk added to it.
Kavey says
I’ve eaten it but never think to make it, really must try. The texture looks so good.
Angela says
Oh I certainly need to try this recipe soon! Yum!!!!
Peter Block says
I love to use my cast iron skillet for cornbread. It adds a good crunch to the bread. Your daughter has good taste.
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
oooh this cornbread is BEAUTIFUL!
Tara Noland says
Thank you so much Kayle!
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
oooh this cornbread is BEAUTIFUL!