
About Cornbread Ninja
Cornbread Ninja is an experiment in AI-assisted cooking. Every recipe on this site was generated by Claude, the AI assistant built by Anthropic.
The process is simple: we describe what we're craving, Claude generates a detailed recipe with precise measurements and instructions, and then we test it in a real kitchen. The recipes that survive taste-testing make it onto the site.
Why “Cornbread Ninja”?
It's a gamertag. It stuck, and now it's a website — and it turns out it works pretty well for a baking themed site.
Features
- —Unit conversion— Toggle between standard and metric measurements on any recipe.
- —Recipe scaling— Cooking for a crowd or just yourself? Scale any recipe from 0.5x to 4x.
- —Ingredient checklist— Check off ingredients as you add them.
The Tech
Built with Next.js and React, styled with Tailwind CSS, hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Recipes are stored as Markdown files — easy to write, easy to version control, and fast to load.