Sounds like you like the same kind of corn bread that we do.  We love this corn bread recipe from Moosewood:

    1 cup flour (we use whole wheat flour, or a combo of wheat & white)
    1 cup cornmeal (we prefer the coarser variety, using blue cornmeal is fun)
    1/2 tsp. salt
    3 Tbs. honey or sugar
    2 tsp. baking powder
    1 tsp. baking soda
    1 egg
    1 cup buttermilk (we make buttermilk from goat’s milk or use plain yogurt)
    3 Tbs. butter (plus some to grease the pan)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in cast iron skillet or baking pan. Combine dry ingredients. Mix egg with buttermilk. Pour wet ingredients in dry and mix until just combined. Pour batter into buttered pan & mix again. Bake for 20 minutes.

Makes 10-12 servings.

http://www.recipezaar.com/Sweet-Cornbread-116185

This is our family’s favorite. YES We’re totally yankees for centuries. It has more ingredients than I normally like but it is SO WORTH IT. It’s like cake. I can’t make Jiffy mix anymore. My family would pout or mutiny or something. This has so much sugar/honey/oil/butter in it that we don’t add top it with anything.

That’s the exact same cornbread that we make!  Only to save on measure cups I now use 1 c flour and 1 c cornmeal. Tastes the same though - delicious!!

Is this like that sweet Boston Market stuff? Ugh, I hate that. 

THanks, Danielle.  I had to make cornbread last night to go with leftover chili.  I couldn’t find my friends’ recipe, so I was searching the internet.  I tried one with honey, and corn, and cornmeal.  It was ok, but most of the kids didn’t like it.  If the kids don’t eat it then it’s no good to me!  I will use your recipe next time.

We just **LOVE** corn bread around here, so I thank you heartily for sharing this! I’m no baker (I’m only a cook because we must eat, after all), but I’m going to try this.

Be warned, everyone within miles of my kitchen… 

I’ve been intending to find a corn bread recipe lately, and hadn’t gotten to it-so it’s a coincidence to find this! 
We have home made chili, with JIFFY cornbread!....pretty regularly, because the whole family loves it (a lot more than I do. : /  )  But I’ve wondered how much better a home made cornbread would be.

Oh…see, now my husband just came over and read what I was typing and said, “Well, we have my grandmother’s cornbread recipe!”.  Oh really?  Well then why haven’t we been using it?  Guess we’ll make them all, and see which one wins our taste test. : )

Alas, I rarely make cornbread, and when I do, I cheat all the way around. One box of Jiffy cornbread mix, made according to directions, and one box of Jiffy yellow cake mix, made according to directions. Mix the batters together and bake. This is how they make it at restaurants like Famous Dave’s and Kenny Roger’s and Boston Chicken.

Hmmmm…maybe that recipe is why my family doesn’t care much for cornbread, which is why we don’t have it very often?

I grew up eating cornbread with chili, but I live in Nebraska now, and they all eat cinnamon rolls with chili. (I *know*!!! Isn’t that the weirdest thing? 20 years and I still can’t get used to it.)

I am NO southerner either, but do live in Atlanta. I know….transplant.
However, we have used this recipe for many, many years and will never change.
You want a sweet (perfect for spicy chili or soup) EASY recipe, this for you…southern or not. Love that is it moist too!

2 boxes Jiffy cornbread
1 box of yellow cake mix
1 cup milk
2 beaten eggs

Mix together and pour into a 9x9” greased cake pan. Cook until golden brown and when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Bake at 350F for 30-50 minutes.

I make these into muffins as they more evenly and a bit faster too. Be ware though, they are addictive in my family!!

While I’m posting…here’s our other favorite…easy too!
Beer Bread
3 cups self-rising flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 beer (light or dark depending upon how sweet you want it)

Mix all ingredients. Bake 375F for 1 hour in a greased loaf pan.
About 15 minutes before baking finishes, pour melted butter over the top. (This step is optional in my opinion. We’ve made it both ways and it’s great.)