Best Southern-Style Hot Honey Jalapeno Cornbread With Fresh Jalapenos is a delicious side-kick to chili or classic soup recipe of choice. Cornbread is a timeless food and a popular one in my home around the cooler months. Choose ingredients like Italian sausage to create jalapeno sausage, or fruit for apple cheddar, or just good ole hot honey. A sweet and savory swap for bread to every dinner meal!
Cornbread Ingredients
- All-purpose flour or gluten free flour
- Yellow cornmeal
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk
- Pinch of salt
This is all you need and some honey and jalapenos. One of the many things I love about cornbread is the minimal ingredients with options to add your own mix-in’s.
Hot Honey
To your honey, add some red pepper flakes if you like or for less spice just drizzle honey over the surface of the cornbread. I learned about hot honey when I was in New York with my mom and met up with a foodie form Instagram. Amazing how social media can bring us all together! The New Yorkers add hot honey to their pizza and I about threw up. I, then, tried it and fell in love. The red pepper flakes marinate in that bottle of honey to pack a punch of spice to your pizza. I would do this at home but then I would go through a bottle a day! Feel free to discard the jalapenos and the red pepper flakes if you use, this corn is solide with or without the spice!
For more fun cornbread inspired recipes like my best southern-style hot honey jalapeno cornbread with Fresh jalapenos, visit my Thanksgiving Gluten Free Cornbread Dressing. This cornbread inspired recipe is made with almond flour!
Best Southern-Style Hot Honey Jalapeno Cornbread With Fresh Jalapenos
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour or gluten free flour
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- 2/3 cup granaulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/3 cup cup melted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 small jalapeno diced and thinly sliced
- honey for drizzling
Instructions
- Grease or line with parchment paper a 9x9 baking dish. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, cornmeal, sugar, salt, baking powder, melted butter, egg, milk, and diced jalapenos together.
- Add batter to your prepared baking dish. Top with thinly sliced jalapenos.
- Bake 20-25 minutes or until toothpick comes out with a few crumbs on it.
- Drizzle with honey.
- Cut and serve warm.
- Store leftovers in and airtight container or ziplock bag in refrigerator for up to 3 days.