Cornbread, a.k.a. food of the Gods. It’s probably one of my favourite brunch foods and epitomises that lazy-Saturday-morning feeling, for me. I was craving it badly last weekend. As I had some extra roasted squash hanging out in the fridge, I mashed it up and stirred it into my usual cornbread batter (the recipe for which is from my cookbook, Top With Cinnamon.)
All you need is one bowl to whip this up in and you’ll have a lofty, golden bread to stuff into your face within the hour. I’m partial to cutting a wedge in half and topping it with my dad’s raspberry jam. It reminds me of home, and hugs and cosy duvet days. If you want to go a savoury route though, scrambled or poached eggs with some spinach and hollandaise or tomato salsa are good choices.
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Note:
– if you don’t have any cooked pumpkin/squash, leave it out and replace with an extra 80 ml (1/3 cup) plain yogurt.
– keep any extra cornbread wrapped in cling film (plastic wrap) to stop it drying out. It’ll keep for 3 days.
– recipe adapted from the Cinnamon-Sugar Cornbread in my cookbook, Top With Cinnamon
Ingredients
- 90 g (1/3 cup) well-mashed, cooked pumpkin or butternut squash
- 80 ml (1/3 cup) plain yogurt
- 110 ml (1/3 cup + 2 tbsp) water
- 1 egg
- 3 tbsp cashew butter OR 2 tbsp butter/coconut oil , , melted
- 2 tbsp honey or sugar , , any kind
- 110 g (scant cup) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 110 g (1 cup) fine cornmeal
- 4 tsp baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F). Grease an 8-inch pie dish or 6-inch cake tin.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the mashed pumpkin and yogurt until smooth. Whisk in the water, egg, cashew butter (or melted butter/coconut oil) and honey (or sugar). Add the flour and cornmeal to the bowl and stir until just combined. Quickly scrape all the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.
- Serve warm with butter and jam.
I usually love spicy cornbread, but this sounds amazing. I plan on making it soon. xx
This sounds glorious. I love pumpkin anything and everything. I attempted to make cornbread once, and it turned out awfully bad. But, I’m willing to give it another try with pumpkin!
I adore cornbread, but never thought to combine it with pumpkin. Now I can’t get over how amazing it sounds! Can’t wait to try this recipe!
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how creative! adding to my “to make” list 🙂
This looks so delicious! Boring as it might be I actually enjoy it with just a bit of butter
This recipe sounds just sooooo good and easy, really have to try this one.
Have a wonderful day, Franzi
Unfortunately I have to admit I never had “real” cornbread.. But autumn has me on a comfort food trail and I wanted to make it to go with my weekend chili in like forever.. So your post might just be the last push that I needed to FINALLY make some cornbread 😉 Hope uni is treating you well!
This looks so good izy I’m definitely pinning the recipe to try xxx
Riccotta and strawberry jam
I never made cornbread as I only recently discovered that my cornmeal alergy disappeared, I am now super eager to try all this new things. Great recipe!
I love pumpkin and I love corn bread so why not together, will try this one topped with some apple spread, no doubt !
I am a huge cornbread fan too, and this looks like a perfect recipe. Adding pumpkin or squash is such a great idea this time of year and I’ve never tried it, but now I totally want to!
Lovely recipe! Definitely going to try it in the coming days! Thanks for the giveaway!
so answer your question: fried chicken with cornbread is the bomb
What a lovely idea; pumpkin cornbread. My kids love cornbread so this is definitely worth a try. I’ll have mine with fig jam please!
I eat my cornbread with Chilli
I Love cornbread especially warm with homemade jam and some warm almond butter xxx
lots of BUTTER!
I’m a sucker for cornbread, too; love adding feta to it!
Can you replace the flour with almond flour or buckwheat flour?
Yeah, I think buckwheat flour (or maybe even gram(chickpea) flour could be used in place of the flour
Definitely making this with and without pumpkin. Yum
Butter and jam or cheese!
hi, i eat butter on my cornbread along side ham & beans or chicken pot pie, yum! thanks
This looks delicious! Perfect for fall 🙂
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This looks amazing!
We eat it with soups and bean casseroles
I love a good soup with cornbread!
This sounds like the cornbread recipe I’ve been after! I’ll definitely be trying this and taking it down the savoury route with some warming winter Chili! I’ll let you know how it was!
Sounds amazing! I’ll definitively try this and eat it with my latest marmalade creation!
Love slathering it in either cookie butter or butter with cinnamon sugar
pumpkin and cornbread are a match made in October…I love it xoxo
With a lovely chutney!
sounds so delicious- pumpkin is omg…- and so simple!