Day 226

Corn bread.  The thing that angels eat.

Especially this recipe.  It is to die for.  It's sweet but not too sweet and it is oh so incredibly moist.

It is a gift from God when you eat it straight out of the oven, and it's a gift that keeps on giving because this recipe makes so much (and this corn bread is so amazing) that you can have it the next morning, and 5 more mornings, for breakfast with a cold glass of milk.

Enough talking, here's the corn bread.

Start off by doing what's right in this world and grating fresh sharp cheddar cheese.  Try not to use the pre-shredded stuff, it's loaded with extra starches to keep it from clumping together and it messes up the taste and the meltiness of the cheese.  If you have to use the pre-shredded stuff, that's okay.  I won't know.  But you need 2-1/2 cups of it either way.

Seven eggs.  All of 'em.

I usually pull the little white umbilical cord things off of them but there's seven of them and they're going into bread, not scrambled, so I won't even know they're there.

Give the eggs a whirl.

Add two cans of cream corn to the eggs.  It really doesn't matter what brand you use.  I obviously splurged for the 69 cents Market Pantry brand at Target.  Doesn't matter, this bread is so good.

Add 1 cup oil: corn, canola, veggie, just not EVOO.  Stir it together.

Now for the dry ingredients.  Add in the cheese...

Two packages (1 pound) of corn muffin mix...

and 5 Tbs. sugar.  The recipe actually calls for 6 1/2 Tbs. but with the sweetness of the cream corn I figured I could skimp a little here.  Stir it up.  There will be lumps, that's okay.  Just don't over stir.

Put it into a greased 9x13 baking dish and bake in a 350 degree oven for an hour, or until a knife comes out of the middle cleanly.

Cut a giant piece out.  Bite into it, and Mmmmmmm.

Heaven.  I'm in heaven.

Note: This makes a whole lotta' corn bread.  More than John and I could eat in a week.  I would definitely recommend halving the recipe if you're feeding less than 4 or 5 and don't mind having less left overs.  However, you could make all of this, cut into smaller pieces, and throw it in the freezer.  Easy solution and then you don't have to make it next time you're in need.