Vera Obias' Cheddar & Black Pepper Cornbread
Genius Recipes
Photo by James Ransom
- Serves
- one 9x9-inch pan
How to make even better cornbread? Treat it more like a biscuit (or scone, or pie crust). The same cold pockets of butter that make a scone crunch outside and billow through the middle do good things for cornbread too. You can bake them into miniature loaves or free-form like scones, with a shorter baking time. Adapted from Vera Obias and Du Jour Bakery in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Ingredients
- 3 cup (375g) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup (166g) sugar
- 1 cup (144g) cornmeal, preferably coarse
- 1 tablespoon (12g) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (6g) baking soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoon (10g) salt
- 1 1/2 cup (150g) grated aged white cheddar
- 8 ounce (240g) butter, cold and cubed
- 3/4 to 1 cup buttermilk
- Heavy cream, cracked black pepper and Maldon (or other flaky) salt for finishing
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Vera Obias' Cheddar & Black Pepper Cornbread
Directions
- Step 1
Combine the first seven ingredients in a food processor. Add butter and pulse until just combined, with pea-sized chunks. Add buttermilk and pulse until dough forms. Let chill for an hour.
- Step 2
Heat the oven to 350° F.
- Step 3
Press dough evenly into a 9x9-inch baking pan. Brush with cream and sprinkle with Maldon sea salt and cracked black pepper. Bake until the top is golden brown and the sides start to pull away from the pan, about 25 minutes.