Sweet Cornbread (Bread Machine recipe)

Cornbread from scratch is not only healthier but easy using a grain mill and your bread machine.

Cornbread is a favorite at our house. It’s the perfect accompaniment to winter soups and stews, or a nice side served in the summer with a light salad or hot dogs. Tempting as it may be to reach for a box of Jiffy, it’s very easy to make cornbread from scratch, guaranteed to taste better and be far healthier for your family than any boxed mix.

What I love about this recipe is that you bake the bread in your bread machine, so there’s no heating up the oven on a hot summer afternoon, which makes whipping up a loaf incredibly quick and hot weather-friendly.

The recipe calls for cornmeal which you can grind yourself from popcorn kernels or cracked corn.  It also calls for all-purpose flour, which you should feel free to substitute with whole wheat flour, ground oats or even another type of your favorite flour.

Grinding popcorn into cornmeal is quick and easy.

I used my Wonder Mill to grind popcorn into cornmeal. It is almost as quick and easy as opening the boxed mix and so much fresher and tastier!

Sweet Cornbread Recipe

2 fresh eggs, at room temperature

1 Cup milk

1/4 Cup butter, at room temperature

3/4 Cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt

2 Cups all-purpose flour (or flour of your choice)

1 Cup cornmeal

1 Tablespoon baking powder

Add all ingredients to your bread machine in the order listed. Select the Quick Bread cycle.

Note: I also like to bake cornbread for our chickens as an occasional treat. To modify this recipe, I merely leave out the salt and sugar.