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Best Jiffy Cornbread Recipe - This honey butter corn bread is an easy quick bread made with simple ingredients. Ready in 25 minutes. So good!
This semi homemade cornbread is perfect for the sweet cornbread lover in your life. People rave about this decadent cornbread because the honey butter bottom layer is to die for! It's honey buttery gooey perfection.
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- Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Here's What You Need
- Equipment
- How to Make It
- Pro Tip
- Jiffy Cornbread Hacks
- Recipe FAQS
- Serving Suggestions
- Freezing and Storage
- More Side Dishes
- More Cornbread Recipes
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This easy cornbread recipe is perfect for easy weeknight dinners, your next backyard bbq, or family gathering. This sweeter cornbread is a tasty compliment to other side dishes, like fried corn and roasted potatoes.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
Secret to this Recipe...is the honey butter bottom layer. It is amazing. Savory buttery flavor mixed with the sweetness of honey creates a decadent, gooey surprise that transforms a simple box of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix into a sweet and ultra moist honey butter cornbread. So basically, this Jiffy Cornbread Recipe is a dessert masquerading as a side dish. What's not to love?
Here's What You Need
- Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix (1 boxed mix) - the key ingredient to this delicious cornbread.
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup of milk - This recipe uses regular milk, but you can substitute any kind of unflavored milk.
- ½ cup salted butter (1 stick)
- ½ cup honey
Equipment
- 8 x 8 Baking Dish - Tempered glass Pyrex baking dish works best so that you can see through the side of the pan to check for doneness.
- large bowl
- fork or whisk
- rubber spatula - To scrape the bowl.
How to Make It
1. Pre-heat oven to 400°F.Place oven rack to center position and pre-heat the oven to 400°F.
2. Prepare Bottom Honey Butter Layer. Melt butter in bottom of a 8 x 8 Pyrexbaking dish. Melt the butter in the microwave for 1 minute. Pour honey evenly over the melted butter, but do not mix together. Set aside.
3. Prepare Basic Recipe For Jiffy Batter. Follow the original recipe on the back of the Jiffy box as detailed here. In a medium bowl,whisktogether box of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, egg, and milk, until combined. A few small lumps in the batter are fine.
4. Pour Jiffy Batter. Pour Jiffy batter evenly over the top of the bottom honey butter layer. Do not stir the two layers together.
5. Bake. Place the baking dish into the oven on the center rack and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Pro Tip
Use a see through glass (Pyrex) baking dish so that you can see what the middle looks like. It needs to look done and not soupy. For best results, bake this delicious cornbread until it is golden brown and the honey butter is bubbling up along the sides. Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cornbread. If the toothpick comes out clean, it's done.
Jiffy Cornbread Hacks
Jiffy Cornbread Muffin Mix is a pantry staple that you can use to create many different variations of this Jiffy Cornbread Recipe. Just add a few extra ingredients and maybe a bit of sugar to a box of Jiffy Cornbread Mix to suit your personal tastes.
Variation Suggestions:
- Corn Muffins - Divide Jiffy mix batter evenly into muffin tins. Cornbread muffins will bake in less time when using muffin pans instead of a single baking pan.
- Jiffy Corn Casserole - Add corn and creamed corn.
- Southern Cornbread - Sweeter and more cake like. Perfect recipe to make in a cast iron skillet.
- Jiffy Jalapeno Cornbread - Add diced Jalapenos to batter.
- Slow Cooker Corn Pudding - Made in a crock pot with extra ingredients like corn and cheddar cheese.
Substitution Suggestions:
- Milk - may substitute buttermilk, heavy cream, sour cream, plain greek yogurt, water, almond milk, soy milk, or coconut milk.
- Eggs - may substitute packaged egg substitutes (may contain egg), aquafaba (canned chickpea liquid), or Flax Egg.
- Salted Butter - may substitute unsalted butter with an added pinch of salt.
Recipe FAQS
How do you add flavor to cornbread?
Add flavor to your cornbread with one of these tasty add-ins: maple syrup, honey, butter, chopped jalapenos, cream cheese, creamed corn.
How to keep cornbread from crumbling?
Crumbly cornbread is dry cornbread. For tender cornbread, add a teaspoon of vegetable oil into the mix. This will provide the extra moisture needed to keep it from becoming dry.
Does Jiffy cornbread need to be refrigerated?
Jiffy cornbread can be stored can be stored in plastic wrap or in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-5 days.
Serving Suggestions
This Easy Jiffy Cornbread Recipe is the great side dish to serve with our Oven-Baked Ribs and Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes. Its truly a perfect side dish any time of year, whether its for your next easy weeknight dinner, for a holiday meal like Thanksgiving dinner, or a casual backyard BBQ. You can't go wrong.
Freezing and Storage
This tasty jiffy cornbread can be stored at room temperature covered with plastic wrap, aluminum foil, or in an airtight container for 3-5 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
There you have it. The Best Jiffy Cornbread Recipe. It's as easy as that! We hope you enjoy our super simple, super tasty recipe. Try it and let us know how you like it. We'd love to hear from you!
xo ~ Seanna
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Honey Butter Cornbread Recipe
Best Jiffy Cornbread Recipe - This honey butter corn bread is an easy quick bread made with simple ingredients. Ready in 25 minutes. So good!
This semi homemade cornbread is perfect for the sweet cornbread lover in your life. People rave about this decadent cornbread because the honey butter bottom layer is to die for! It's honey buttery gooey perfection.
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Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Servings: 9 Servings
Calories: 258kcal
Author: Seanna Borrows
Equipment
8 x 8 glass baking dish
small mixing bowl
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup milk
- ½ cup salted butter 1 stick
- ½ cup honey
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 400°F.Place oven rack to center position in the oven and pre-heat the oven to 400°F.
Bottom Layer.
Melt butter in bottom of a glass 8 x 8 pyrex baking dish. Melt the butter in the microwave for 1 minute. Pour honey over butter evenly. Set aside.
½ cup salted butter, ½ cup honey
Prepare Batter.
In a medium bowl, whisk together box of Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, egg, and milk, until combined. A few small lumps in the batter are fine.
1.5 cups Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, 1 large egg, ⅓ cup milk
Pour Batter.
Pour batter evenly over the top of the bottom layer. Do not stir.
Bake.
Place the baking pan into the oven on the center rack and bake for 15-20 minutes. Or until light golden brown on top and bottom layer is bubbly.
Test for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the center of the cornbread. If the toothpick comes out clean, it's done.
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Notes
Substitution Suggestions
Milk Substitution
Substitute Water, Almond Milk, Soy Milk, or Coconut Milk for Milk in Jiffy Mixes.
Egg Substitution
You can substitute the following for eggs in Jiffy mixes:
. Packaged egg substitutes (may contain egg)
. Aquafaba (canned chickpea liquid)
. Flax Egg
Serving Suggestions
This Easy Jiffy Cornbread Recipe is the great side dish to serve with our Oven-Baked Ribs and Crispy Oven Roasted Potatoes. Its truly a perfect side dish any time of year, whether its for your next easy weeknight dinner, for a holiday meal like Thanksgiving dinner, or a casual backyard BBQ. You can't go wrong.
Freezing and Storage
This tasty jiffy cornbread can be stored at room temperature covered with plastic wrap or in an airtight container for 3-5 days or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Nutrition
Calories: 258kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 47mg | Sodium: 284mg | Potassium: 60mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 383IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 1mg
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