Sweet Potato Cornbread with Cinnamon Honey Butter
mylifeinbalancegroup.com/sweet-potato-cornbread/Deliciously sweet and mouth-wateringly moist cornbread with flavors of sweet potatoes, honey, and cinnamon. Perfect with roast turkey or a bowl of hearty chili.
Recipe Makes (Approximate): squares
Equipment
- medium mixing bowl or stand mixer bowl
- Hand mixer or stand mixer
- whisk attachment
- refrigerator
- Oven
- 8x8 baking dish
- parchment paper
- medium mixing bowl
- whisk
- large mixing bowl
- Silicone spatula
- toothpicks or butter knife
Ingredients
For the Cinnamon-Honey Butter
- ½ cup salted butter (at room temperature)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 large pinch salt (more or less to taste)
For the Sweet Potato Cornbread
- 1 cup cooked, mashed sweet potato
- ½ cup plain yogurt (or sour cream, full-fat preferred)
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (melted but not hot)
- ⅓ cup packed brown sugar (light or dark)
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk (see Notes)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon fresh baking powder
- 1 teaspoon fresh baking soda
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt (more or less to taste)
Instructions
For the Cinnamon-Honey Butter
- Add ½ cup salted butter, 2 tablespoons honey, ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1 large pinch salt to medium mixing bowl (or stand mixer bowl).
- For Fluffy Butter: Use hand mixer (or stand mixer) fitted with whisk attachment to mix together ingredients on medium-high speed until fully incorporated into fluffy mixture. Pause mixer as needed and scrape down sides of bowl with silicone spatula to ensure all ingredients are incorporated completely.
- For Regular Butter: Use fork to mash all ingredients together until fully incorporated. Pause as needed and scrape down sides of bowl silicone spatula to ensure all ingredients are incorporated completely.
- Set butter aside until ready to serve. Alternately, cover bowl with lid or food-safe plastic wrap and refrigerate. Remove butter from refrigerator and let butter stand at room temperature 15 to 20 minutes prior to serving.
For the Sweet Potato Cornbread
- Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit. Line 8x8 baking dish with parchment paper, then lightly butter inner sides of dish not covered by parchment paper.
- Add 1 cup cooked, mashed sweet potato, ½ cup plain yogurt, ¼ cup unsalted butter, ⅓ cup packed brown sugar, 2 large eggs, and 1 cup buttermilk to medium mixing bowl. Whisk ingredients together until fully incorporated. Set bowl aside.
- Add 1 cup all-purpose flour, 1 cup yellow cornmeal, 1 tablespoon fresh baking powder, 1 teaspoon fresh baking soda, ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon, and ½ teaspoon salt to large mixing bowl. Stir ingredients together until well blended.
- When dry ingredients are fully incorporated, transfer wet ingredients into bowl of dry ingredients. Use silicone spatula to stir ingredients together until just combined, making sure to break up any clumps of dry ingredients.
- Transfer cornbread batter to prepared baking dish. Spread batter out evenly across baking dish, smoothing top of batter with spatula.
- Place baking dish in preheated oven. Bake cornbread 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, begin checking doneness of cornbread by inserting clean toothpick (or butter knife) directly into center of cornbread then immediately removing toothpick (or butter knife). Continue baking cornbread 5 to 10 minutes more, as needed, until toothpick (or butter knife) comes out completely clean, with no batter or crumbs.
- When cornbread is baked through completely, carefully remove baking dish from oven. Set dish aside at let cornbread rest 10 minutes.
To Serve
- After cornbread has cooled 10 minutes, use exposed parchment paper to carefully lift cornbread out of baking dish.
- Slice cornbread into 16 equally-sized squares. Serve cornbread warm with softened cinnamon-honey butter and additional honey if desired.
Recipe Notes
- Salt: The amount of salt in salted butter can vary from brand to brand. If you're concerned about the cinnamon-honey butter being too salty, wait until you've mixed and tasted the butter to add any additional salt. Alternately, use unsalted butter and keep the pinch of salt as written.
- Sweet Potatoes: Make sure your mashed sweet potatoes are completely lump-free before adding the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
- Buttermilk: If you don't have buttermilk, you can make your own. Add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to 1 cup of milk (whatever kind you prefer) and mix them together really well.
- Leftover Cinnamon-Honey Butter: Transfer any leftover butter to an airtight container. Refrigerate the butter up to 1 month.
- Leftover Cornbread: Let the cornbread cool completely, then transfer it to an airtight container. Refrigerate the cornbread up to 1 week.
Nutrition Information (Approximate)
Serving Size: 1 square with cinnamon-honey butterCalories: 208calProtein: 4gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 49mgSodium: 305mgPotassium: 175mgTotal Carbs: 25gFiber: 2gSugar: 9gNet Carbs: 23gVitamin A: 3696IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 91mgIron: 1mg
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