Cornbread Sugar Cookies with Honey Butter Frosting

Cornbread lovers are going to want to make these Cornbread Sugar Cookies with Honey Butter Frosting ASAP! They’re still sweet and soft like traditional sugar cookies, but the nice texture of cornmeal and the balanced sweetness of honey butter for the frosting make them more cozy with Southern flair.

Cornbread meets sugar cookies! Some of you may be thinking hmm, that sounds strange. Let me just tell you these are some of the best sugar cookies you will ever eat, yes I’m going to brag a little =). They are such an exciting twist on the classic bakery-style sugar cookies. These still hold true to all the wonderful characteristics you find in a perfect sugar cookie.

Cornbread Sugar Cookies

They are fluffy, tender, sweet, and undeniably delicious. These are some of my family’s favorite desserts. I have to give some away or I will just devour them all on my own. Plain sugar cookies can be a little too sweet if you want to eat more than one, but these? The cornbread cuts some of that sweetness but leaves all of the perfect flavor!

You could also make Cornbread Sugar Cookie Squares with Honey Butter Frosting which are nearly the same but in bar form. I adapted both that recipe and this one from my Sugar Cookie Squares and Sugar Cookies recipes, I decided to experiment one day and came up with these.

They are everything you love about honey-buttered cornbread and soft, frosted sugar cookies combined into one. If you ask me I think they are good enough and exciting enough to be the next new cookie craze!

More Recipes if You Love Cornbread

If you, like me, crave cornbread every day… you may want to try some of these other cornbread favorites:

• Cornbread Sugar Cookie Squares with Honey Butter Frosting
• Lightened Up Cornbread Muffins
• Cornbread Pancakes with Honey Butter Syrup
• Pumpkin Cornbread with Cinnamon Honey Butter
• Southern Skillet Cornbread
• Lightened Up Cornbread with Whipped Honey Butter

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Cornbread Sugar Cookies with Honey Butter Frosting

Fluffy tender cornmeal based sugar cookies topped with a rich, sweet honey butter frosting!

Servings: 24

Prep20 minutes minutes

Cook20 minutes minutes

Ready in: 40 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/4 cups corn flour (this is NOT cornmeal, cornstarch or masa harina)*
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup butter , softened
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 recipe Honey Butter Frosting , recipe follows

Honey Butter Frosting

• 1/2 cup butter , softened
• 1/3 cup honey
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1/8 tsp salt

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl whisk together, all-purpose flour, corn flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer whip together butter and sugar until light and fluffy about 3-4 minutes. Stir in egg and egg yolk. Mix in sour cream, vanilla and lemon juice. Slowly add in dry ingredients and mix until well incorporated. Form dough into balls by the heaping tablespoon fulls then place on cookies sheets and flatten dough balls evenly to about 1/2" with your hands. Bake in preheated oven for 9-11 minutes. Allow to cool completely before frosting with Honey Butter Frosting.

Honey Butter Frosting

• In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, whip together all ingredients until light and fluffy about 1 - 2 minutes.
• Recipe Source: Easy Cooking Zone

Notes

*You can usually find this in the health foods section or gluten free section of the grocer or supermarket. If you can't find it there you can also purchase it online here.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Cornbread Cookies

Author: Jaclyn