This is a BAKESHOP Collection recipe offered here as an individual à la carte listing for bakers who prefer to purchase select recipes without a full subscription.
You’re purchasing the recipe only, exactly as it appears in the Bakeshop Collection — no additional formatting, photos, or expanded content beyond what is shown in the official Bakeshop file.
The Cornbread Shortbread Tray is a bakery-style hybrid dessert bar that fuses the familiar warmth of Southern cornbread with the rich texture of classic shortbread. Designed for professional flavor, structure, and clean slicing, it has a buttery, short crumb enhanced with fine cornmeal and baked in a 6x6” or 8x8” pan for café-style presentation.
This is not a cookie bar, muffin bar, or rustic quickbread — it’s a refined shortbread tray that mimics the flavor of cornbread but finishes like a melt-in-your-mouth bakery biscuit.
Soft yet structured, lightly sweetened and deeply aromatic from honey, vanilla, and butter, this is a year-round tray bake perfect for pairing with fruit glazes, flavored crumbles, or a thin layer of jam or lemon curd. The texture is tender and sandy with a crisp top, ideal for cutting into neat squares for boxes, shops, or bakery cases.
This dough was built with pastry cases and retail packaging in mind:
Uses fine yellow cornmeal (not coarse or stone-ground)
Includes honey, vanilla, and European-style butter for enhanced depth
Bakes clean with beautiful, smooth tops and a soft golden hue
Stable enough to be layered with jam or fruit curd
Optional bakery glaze recipe included for professional finishing
Yields 1 tray. Bake time, internal temperature, visual doneness cues, and optional topping variations are included in the recipe file.
This recipe is written in metric weights only for precision and consistency.
By purchasing this listing, you acknowledge that you are receiving a digital recipe file as-is — no customizations, no refunds, and no visual walkthroughs.
Some recipes in the Bakeshop Collection may include professional ingredients such as:
Instant Clearjel
Invert sugar or glucose
Vanilla bean paste or emulsions
If you bake using volume measurements (cups/spoons), you will need to handle conversions independently. Alternate formats are not provided.
This recipe assumes a working knowledge of basic baking methods, including creaming, pressing dough into pans, and checking doneness by internal temperature or visual cues.
This Cornbread Shortbread Tray is part of the Bakeshop Collection and is being offered here for individual purchase. It is not part of any other bar, brownie, or tray cake bundle at this time.
Future seasonal variations using this base may be released separately (e.g., jam-layered versions, lemon glaze, frangipane-crumble tops, etc.).
This recipe is exclusive to the Bakeshop website and is not available on Etsy or third-party platforms.
This recipe is a paid digital product created by Carter’s Bakeshop and is intended for individual use only by the purchaser. By purchasing or downloading this recipe, you agree to the following terms:
Do not share, distribute, re-post, resell, or re-upload this file or its contents in any form.
This recipe is not transferable, and may not be posted publicly or used in content creation (e.g., blogs, social media, videos).
You are welcome to bake and sell products made from this recipe, but not the recipe itself.
All intellectual property — including the formula, instructions, and written content — belongs to Carter’s Bakeshop.
Every purchase helps support the continued creation of high-quality, professional baking content and proprietary recipes through the Bakeshop Collection and the Market.
This is a BAKESHOP Collection recipe offered here as an individual à la carte listing for bakers who prefer to purchase select recipes without a full subscription.
You’re purchasing the recipe only, exactly as it appears in the Bakeshop Collection — no additional formatting, photos, or expanded content beyond what is shown in the official Bakeshop file.
The Cornbread Shortbread Tray is a bakery-style hybrid dessert bar that fuses the familiar warmth of Southern cornbread with the rich texture of classic shortbread. Designed for professional flavor, structure, and clean slicing, it has a buttery, short crumb enhanced with fine cornmeal and baked in a 6x6” or 8x8” pan for café-style presentation.
This is not a cookie bar, muffin bar, or rustic quickbread — it’s a refined shortbread tray that mimics the flavor of cornbread but finishes like a melt-in-your-mouth bakery biscuit.
Soft yet structured, lightly sweetened and deeply aromatic from honey, vanilla, and butter, this is a year-round tray bake perfect for pairing with fruit glazes, flavored crumbles, or a thin layer of jam or lemon curd. The texture is tender and sandy with a crisp top, ideal for cutting into neat squares for boxes, shops, or bakery cases.
This dough was built with pastry cases and retail packaging in mind:
Uses fine yellow cornmeal (not coarse or stone-ground)
Includes honey, vanilla, and European-style butter for enhanced depth
Bakes clean with beautiful, smooth tops and a soft golden hue
Stable enough to be layered with jam or fruit curd
Optional bakery glaze recipe included for professional finishing
Yields 1 tray. Bake time, internal temperature, visual doneness cues, and optional topping variations are included in the recipe file.
This recipe is written in metric weights only for precision and consistency.
By purchasing this listing, you acknowledge that you are receiving a digital recipe file as-is — no customizations, no refunds, and no visual walkthroughs.
Some recipes in the Bakeshop Collection may include professional ingredients such as:
Instant Clearjel
Invert sugar or glucose
Vanilla bean paste or emulsions
If you bake using volume measurements (cups/spoons), you will need to handle conversions independently. Alternate formats are not provided.
This recipe assumes a working knowledge of basic baking methods, including creaming, pressing dough into pans, and checking doneness by internal temperature or visual cues.
This Cornbread Shortbread Tray is part of the Bakeshop Collection and is being offered here for individual purchase. It is not part of any other bar, brownie, or tray cake bundle at this time.
Future seasonal variations using this base may be released separately (e.g., jam-layered versions, lemon glaze, frangipane-crumble tops, etc.).
This recipe is exclusive to the Bakeshop website and is not available on Etsy or third-party platforms.
This recipe is a paid digital product created by Carter’s Bakeshop and is intended for individual use only by the purchaser. By purchasing or downloading this recipe, you agree to the following terms:
Do not share, distribute, re-post, resell, or re-upload this file or its contents in any form.
This recipe is not transferable, and may not be posted publicly or used in content creation (e.g., blogs, social media, videos).
You are welcome to bake and sell products made from this recipe, but not the recipe itself.
All intellectual property — including the formula, instructions, and written content — belongs to Carter’s Bakeshop.
Every purchase helps support the continued creation of high-quality, professional baking content and proprietary recipes through the Bakeshop Collection and the Market.
