You can’t have the holiday season without cornbread. But, if your cornbread turns out dry, what’s the point? If you want to avoid this horrendous mistake, take these 3 tips and apply them to your normal cornbread recipe!
Buttermilk
Some recipes call for regular milk or water for cornbread, but to get truly divine cornbread, you need to ditch them both and only use buttermilk. Buttermilk provides the liquid needed for the cornbread, but it also brings a really rich flavor and fat content necessary for a moist cornbread.
Sour Cream
Even if your recipe doesn’t call for any sour cream, it’s a great addition to an existing recipe to amp up the creaminess by adding in some fat that won’t thin out the cornbread. Just add half a cup of sour cream to your wet ingredients and then stir into the dry and you’ll have delicious, rich cornbread.
Egg
Though eggs are crucial to any cornbread recipe if you want to get a really rich, creamy cornbread, add in another egg or just egg yolk to get your creamy factor up. This won’t change the bake much, perhaps by just 1-2 minutes, but it really does the trick in a pinch!
