Bonus Camping Edition: Skillet Cornbread with Honey Butter

Baking is portable! Baking can happen outside! Baking can happen while you are camping! The temperatures allowed for chili so of course we baked up some cornbread to go with it. You can bake on a fire directly or using a camp stove, just make sure you get the foil tight so it can create a little oven space inside and cook the top of the cornbread. You can also put a smoldering piece of wood over the top of the cornbread (as we did) to ensure the top cooks through.

Ingredients

1 cup fine ground cornmeal

1 cup flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/3 cup dark brown sugar

1/2 cup salted butter, cut into small pieces

1 large egg

1 cup whole milk

Butter or oil for your cast iron pan

For camping, mix the cornmeal, flour, powder, soda, and sugar in one container, and then the butter, egg and milk in a jar. At your campsite, make sure your fire or camp stove is heated and ready to go. Pour your wet ingredients into the container of the dry ingredients and mix. 

Heat up your cast iron pan on the fire, melting butter or oil in the pan. Pour in the cornbread batter and cover the pan with foil, crimping the edges to be sure it is sealed well. Cook until it looks done. 

If you are feeling fancy you can use some chopped bacon to oil the cast iron and then mix it into the batter. and skip using butter or oil. We were feeling fancy. 

Honey Butter is so very easy to make. Take 1/2 cup of soft salted butter and mix in honey. I use 1/4 - 1/3 of honey depending on the honey flavor. Our camping honey butter was made with 1/3 cup of fresh honey from my sister-in-law's backyard hive and it is amazing.