Sweet Potato Cornbread with Whipped Maple Cinnamon Butter
Thanksgiving is next week and I know you all are looking for the perfect cornbread recipe to impress your lovely guests with! You know you want to be remembered as having the BEST cornbread of all time at the family Thanksgiving! I’m feeling pretty confident that this recipe will give you that recognition you’ve been longing for. LOL This sweet potato cornbread is perfectly spiced with the familiar flavors of pumpkin pie spice, it’s perfectly sweet and fluffy which will leave your guests wondering, “is this cornbread or cake!?”
I mean, just look at it!
LOOK AT IT! *insert heart eyes emoji here*
It looks so divine you wish it would magically appear in front of you RIGHT NOW!
Okay, so
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Baking it in the oven which will caramelize the natural sugars in the sweet potato or 2. Microwaving the sweet potato which is the fastest way to get it cooked. Now if you bake the sweet potato in the oven I suggest preheating your oven to 400°F. Then you want to take your washed sweet potato and prick it a few times with a fork then rub a teensy bit of olive oil over the skin and wrap the sweet potato in foil. Then you will bake the sweet potato for about an hour or until it’s fork tender. To microwave your sweet potato, take your washed sweet potato and prick it a few times with a fork, rub a teensy bit of olive oil over the skin and wrap it in Saran or Cling wrap. Then microwave the sweet potato for about 8 minutes or until fork tender.
Now, let’s get down to the cornbread recipe! I used a standard cornbread recipe for my base then, of course, I had to spice things up a little bit! I LOVE warming spices so I used cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, nutmeg and cloves! I realize not everybody has as well stocked of a cupboard like I do so you can take a shortcut, if you must, and use pumpkin pie spice in place of my spices. I’d suggest using about 2 ½ teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice and then add in an 1 teaspoon of
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