Sweet Cornbread Cake

by Sabrina Snyder

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16 Servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
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Sweet Cornbread Cake is perfectly moist and tender with sugar and honey. A perfect, sweet, classic Southern side for Chili and BBQ dishes.

This recipe is sure to be a Side Dish favorite with any cornbread lovers. It’s similar to a Basic Cornbread Recipe, but it’s made to be more moist and sweet.

Sabrina’s Sweet Cornbread Cake Recipe

Though this cornbread is sweeter than classic cornbread, it still makes an amazing side dish to traditional dinner meals. Serve the cornbread with Chili just like you would with normal cornbread. It would also taste great with Fried Chicken and a side of corn on the cob. It’s the perfect addition to your favorite hearty home cooked meals.

Dinner, then Dessert

Sweet Cornbread Cake Recipe

Sweet Cornbread Cake is perfectly moist and tender with sugar and honey. A perfect, sweet, classic Southern side for Chili and BBQ dishes.
Yield 16 Servings
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Author Sabrina Snyder
Dripping honey on stack of two squares of cornbread.
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Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup cornmeal
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter , melted
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 4 large eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups buttermilk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9×13 baking pan with baking spray.
  • In a large bowl whisk together the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
  • In a second bowl whisk together the butter, honey, eggs, and buttermilk.
  • Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk until just combined.
  • Pour into baking dish and bake for 40 minutes or until just golden brown.

Nutrition

Calories: 335kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 364mg | Potassium: 130mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 20g | Vitamin A: 484IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 146mg | Iron: 2mg

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About the Author: Sabrina Snyder

Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.

Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.

She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.

She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.

As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.

Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.

As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.

Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.

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