Bacon Cheddar Cornbread has a irresistible salty, smokey spirit with conscionable a small sweetness from immoderate maize and sugar. There’s a full batch of spirit going connected here.
I used Wright® Brand Bacon which has go my favourite bacon. I find the spirit and prime to beryllium acold supra different brands I person tried. It comes successful some Hickory and Apple Wood flavors. I used Wright® Brand Naturally Hickory Smoked Bacon for this Bacon Cheddar Cornbread, but Apple Wood would beryllium arsenic delicious.
I emotion that you get a afloat pound and a fractional successful a bundle and thing beats those ace heavy slices.
I’m a immense believer that bacon makes thing sensation amended and since it is 1 of the astir versatile ingredients, I ever person immoderate successful my fridge. Whether it’s with a broadside of eggs for breakfast, connected a BLT sandwich for lunch, wrapped astir immoderate grilled chickenhearted for dinner, oregon adjacent sprinkled connected apical of a cocoa milkshake for dessert, bacon is ne'er thing little than delicious.
Cast Iron Skillet
To marque my Bacon Cheddar Cornbread, I commencement by crisping up tons of bacon successful a formed robust pan. Cast Iron is cleanable for cooking bacon and its adjacent vigor organisation makes wonderfully crispy but moist cornbread.
How To Make
Once the bacon is crispy, acceptable it speech but permission a small bacon grease successful the pan. It makes the bottommost of the cornbread fabulously crisp and flavorful. I premix immoderate of the bacon into the cornbread batter on with immoderate shredded cheddar cheese.
Pour the batter into the formed robust cookware and past sprinkle the remaining bacon and food connected top. Pop it successful the oven and 30 minutes aboriginal you person the astir delicious cornbread imaginable.
How To Serve Bacon Cheddar Cornbread
This cornbread goes ace good with chili, soups, oregon stews and I truly emotion it with BBQ Brisket, Spicy Collard Greens, and Creamy Butter Beans.
Make It Spicy
If you privation your conrbread spicy, adhd a 4th to a fractional spoon of cayenne capsicum to the batter.
Storage
Can beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia successful an airtight conatiner for 2 days oregon successful the refrigerator for 4 days.
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- Hot Water Cornbread
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Bacon Cheddar Cornbread
Equipment
- 9-inch formed robust pan
Ingredients
- 8 slices bacon
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 cup frozen oregon canned corn well-drained
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Slice bacon into bite-sized pieces and navigator successful a 9-inch formed robust cookware until crispy. Remove to a insubstantial towel-lined sheet with a slotted spoon and acceptable aside.
- Discard each but 1 tablespoonful of abdominous from pan.
- In a ample bowl, disturbance unneurotic cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add eggs, buttermilk, and melted food and disturbance until combined.
- Fold successful corn, fractional of bacon and fractional of cheese.
- Pour batter into cookware with bacon grease.
- Sprinkle remaining food and bacon connected top. Bake for astir 30 minutes oregon until feels steadfast erstwhile the apical is pressed.
Notes
Nutrition
Sponsored station written by maine connected behalf of Tyson Foods, Inc. The opinions and substance are each mine.
Originally posted March 21, 2106. Updated with caller content.
The station Bacon Cheddar Cornbread appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.