Easy Skillet Cornbread

This cornbread skillet recipe is going to be your go-to recipe! Bake it in an ovenproof or cast-iron skillet and be amazed.

A good cornbread recipe is a home cook necessity, as we’ve discovered. Cornbread is easy, goes with almost anything, anytime, quiet satisfied. Here’s one of our favorites: this one Cornbread in the skillet recipe! It’s great in a cast iron skillet, although you can use any type of ovenproof skillet that comes in handy. Bake it and it’s got just the right thickness, moist crumb, and savory sweetness you want in a good cornbread.

What’s in a Skillet Cornbread Recipe?

Cornbread is a quick bread made from cornmeal that has roots in Native American and Southern United States cuisines. There are many versions of this concept, and whether it’s sweet, savory, thick, or thin often depends on the region of the United States. This recipe is rather salty, slightly sweet.

Cornbread is often baked in a cast-iron skillet, which makes it crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Most cornbread recipes have similar ingredients and methods. (Here we took some inspiration from Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee cookbook: which we highly recommend!) Here are the ingredients you’ll need:

• Yellow Wheat Flour
• all purpose flour
• granulated sugar
• baking soda, baking soda, and kosher salt
• eggs
• whole milk
• Salted butter

Use a cast iron skillet or other ovenproof skillet

Why is cornbread from the cast iron skillet so delicious? You can preheat the pan beforehand and it gets very hot to get deliciously crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Here are some notes on the oven type:

• A 9 or 10 inch cast iron skillet is best if you have one. Some people like to preheat the pan for the entire oven preheat time to give the bread extra crispiness. For our method, we only need 5 minutes to melt the butter, but you can preheat longer if you’d like.
• Or any ovenproof skillet will work! Just make sure it’s about 9-10 inches in diameter to get the ideal loaf thickness.

Ways to serve this skillet cornbread recipe

Skillet Cornbread is one of our favorite easy side dishes because it goes with almost anything! Here are some toppings and meal prep ideas:

Vegan and gluten-free variants

Would you like to change it for dietary restrictions? Try these vegan and gluten-free alternatives:

• Gluten Free Skillet Cornbread: Replace all-purpose flour with 1:1 gluten-free flour.
• Vegan cornbread from the pan: Prepare our vegan cornbread and cook it in a pan according to the recipe below.

More cornbread recipes

And that’s it! Let us know how you are doing in the comments below. And if you want more ideas, try these variations on the theme:

This cast iron skillet cornbread recipe is…

Vegetarian. See recipe below for gluten free. For vegans go to Vegan Cornbread.