Honey Cornbread

Ingredients:

• 1-1/4 cups yellow cornmeal
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup flour
• 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs; slightly beaten
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 2 tablespoons honey

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8-by-8-inch baking pan with shortening. Pop the pan into the oven to heat while you’re mixing up the cornbread.

Mix the cornmeal, sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Whisk together the buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, and melted butter in another bowl. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ones and give them a good stirring just until everything is moistened. Pull the hot greased pan from the over and pour in the batter.

Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Take the cornbread out of the over and brush the top with honey. (An option you may want to try here is to put the cornbread back into the over under a hot broiler and broil until the honey caramelizes.)

Cool for 10 minutes in the pan before cutting into squares.