sweet potato cornbread with cinnamon honey butter

Wilmington, NC
Updated on May 22, 2021

The sweet potatoes give this cornbread a delicious twist, and helps make it moist. It is wonderful served with the cinnamon butter while still warm.

Blue Ribbon Recipe

What a delicious way to prepare cornbread! If you're not team sweet for cornbread, you may not like this though. Nice and fluffy, the cornbread is super tender and almost has a cake-like texture. The bread itself is slightly sweet and has bits of sweet potato in every bite. Topped with the honey butter, it's almost like a dessert that's not too sweet. Yum!

prep time 15 Min
cook time 30 Min
method Bake
yield 9 serving(s)

Ingredients

  • CORNBREAD
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup yellow corn meal
  • 3-3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 - large eggs
  • 6 tablespoons milk
  • 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1 1/3 cups mashed cooked sweet potatoes, or canned
  • CINNAMON HONEY BUTTER
  • 1/2 stick butter, softened
  • 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons natural honey
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

How To Make sweet potato cornbread with cinnamon honey butter

  • Dry ingredients added to a bowl.
    Step 1
    Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Sift together all dry ingredients and set them aside.
  • Eggs, milk, and oil in a large bowl.
    Step 2
    Combine eggs, milk, and oil in a large bowl until smooth.
  • Mixing in sweet potatoes.
    Step 3
    Beat in sweet potatoes until well blended.
  • Stirring in dry ingredients.
    Step 4
    Stir in dry ingredients just until moistened.
  • Batter poured into a baking dish.
    Step 5
    Pour into a greased 8" square baking pan.
  • Cornbread baking in the oven.
    Step 6
    Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  • Butter ingredients mixed together.
    Step 7
    For the butter: Beat butter with powdered sugar and cinnamon until creamy. Add honey and beat until well blended.
  • A bite eaten from the Sweet Potato Cornbread With Cinnamon Honey Butter.
    Step 8
    Serve warm with cinnamon honey butter.

Discover More

Category: Sweet Breads
Keyword: #cornbread
Keyword: #corn bread
Collection: Fall Food
Method: Bake
Culture: American
Ingredient: Flour

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