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This Gluten-Free Vegan Cornbread is fluffy and light with an amazing texture from the cornmeal! It’s perfect served with soup or chili, served as a side or snack, or just topped with a little bit of butter or spread. This post is sponsored by Bob’s Red Mill.
I’ve been wanting to make a gluten-free and vegan cornbread forever it seems like. The recipes haven’t ever turned out quite right – always too dense, or too cakey, or not a good enough texture or flavor. Which is why none of them have ever made it onto this site.
UNTIL NOW. Because you guys, I finally nailed it. Right in time for the Superbowl too…so you can have a delicious side to your steaming bowl of chili. Which one are you making – my classic best chili? My paleo chili? Or my white bean chili?! I’ll be making the white bean chili, and it is gonna be perfection when paired with this fluffy, delicious cornbread.
It’s pretty dang easy to make too. Just whisk together the dry ingredients, whisk together the wet ingredients, stir it all together, and your batter is done. Just pour it into the pan, or into a muffin tin if you’d prefer, bake, and voila – gluten-free vegan cornbread.
You really don’t even have to wait for it to cool before digging in, because cornbread is always better when it’s steamy and warm. Swoooon. Just make sure you’ve got the butter (or ghee, or vegan butter 😊) on deck and ready to spread!
The BEST Gluten Free + Vegan Cornbread!
We’ll have a quick chat about how to make the cornbread, what goes into it and why and whatnot, and then onto the recipe! Since most great cornbread starts with buttermilk, we make our OWN dairy-free buttermilk here. You’ll simply stir together a cup of dairy-free milk + a tablespoon of vinegar and let it curdle a bit. It’s also great to make your flax eggs right at the beginning, so they’ve got time to gel.
THEN, mix up all those dry ingredients. I used blanched almond flour and tapioca flour, both from Bob’s Red Mill – the blanched almond flour helps give light flavor and texture while the tapioca flour makes it super fluffy. Of course, can’t have cornbread without cornmeal.
I use Bob’s Organic Medium Grind Cornmeal here too, which is the true star of the show. It adds such a nice bite with some grit in the texture and a sweet corn flavor. There’s also baking soda, baking powder, salt, and coconut sugar.
For the wet ingredients, we’ve just got melted coconut oil, and the buttermilk we made earlier, along with the flax eggs. BTW – those little brown flecks you might see in the photos of the cornbread? Those are just from the flax meal.
You’ll whisk everything together until a thick, smooth batter comes together. Then, bake until golden. I seriously couldn’t keep my hands off of this gluten-free and vegan cornbread as soon as it came out of the oven…it just smelled so scrumptious. I spread on a little bit of ghee while the cornbread was still warm and it was glorious. 🙌
If you’re a cornbread kinda person, you’ve got to try this recipe! I’d surely say it compares to any cornbread I’ve ever had, and it’s perfect served with chili…and probably anytime I’m having soup or chili in the future. This one’s a keeper! Enjoy :)
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Gluten Free + Vegan Cornbread
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar, can also use lemon juice
- 1 cup non-dairy milk of choice, I used unsweetened almond
- 1½ cups 144g blanched almond flour
- ½ cup 55g tapioca flour
- 1 cup 172g Bob’s Red Mill Organic Medium Grind Cornmeal
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1¼ teaspoons sea salt
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- ⅓ cup coconut oil, melted and cooled slightly (you could sub with avocado oil too)
- 2 flax eggs, 2 tablespoons flax meal + 5 tablespoons water, whisk together and let set for 5 minutes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line an 8x8” square baking pan with parchment paper and grease with coconut oil. Set aside.
- Combine the non-dairy milk and white vinegar in a bowl to let the milk curdle a bit into buttermilk. Also make the flax eggs at this point, to give them time to gel.
- Meanwhile, whisk the almond flour, tapioca flour, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl, making sure to get all the clumps out.
- Add the coconut sugar, melted coconut oil, and flax eggs to the milk and vinegar mixture and whisk together until smooth. Whisk the wet mixture into the dry ingredients until smooth and combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with just a few crumbs attached, about 22-24 minutes.
- Let cool in the pan for 15 minutes, then remove from the pan and place on a wire rack to let it finish cooling completely. You can also serve warm, if desired. In fact, I recommend trying a piece warm. Enjoy!
I have made this countless times. It is my go-to cornbread recipe, much beloved and admired by dinner guests.
I actually bake it in lightly greased parchment muffin cups. On occasion have added roasted corn kernels, chopped jalapeños or diced sundried tomatoes – or all the above – for added color, flavors and texture.
Also great with jam or honey at breakfast or tea.
There are never leftovers!
Thank you so much Yodan!! So so glad you’re loving the recipe, and it sounds so fabulous with all of your additions.
This recipe is incredible!! Thank you so much. I’m so excited to have a reliable, healthy and delicious cornbread recipe!
So glad you loved it, Jenna!
This is deliciously moist and so easy. Rose beautifully. A hint of sweet but mostly savory. I absolutely loved it!! Used two eggs rather than flax but will try vegan version next time.
So glad you loved it, Elizabeth! Thanks for the feedback :)
This corn bread was delicious. The entire family loved it. I used arrowroot flour instead of tapioca, which turned out well. Subbed oat milk for almond, because that’s what I had on hand. Baked it for 22 minutes, and it came out lightly browned and still moist in the middle. We will be eating this again!
So glad you loved it, Eva! Thanks for the feedback :)
Can I use this recipe instead of the box mix in a corn puff recipe? I also want to use eggs in place of the flax meal…will that work!
Can I use this recipe instead of the box mix in a corn pudding recipe? I also want to use eggs in place of the flax meal…will that work?
Hi Sharon, I’m not sure how it would work since I haven’t tried it, but of course, you can always give it a go! Eggs should be just fine in place of the flax.
I made this to eat with my veggie soup and this recipe is AMAZING! I substituted monkfruit sweetener and maple syrup instead of coconut sugar and I used vegan egg replacer instead of flax egg (I was out of flax). I also baked as muffins. This recipe made light, fluffy delicious cornbread that I will be putting into my rotation! I was pleasantly shocked at the texture of deliciousness! It’s not gummy or dry. These are perfect!!!! Thank you for sharing
I’m so glad you loved it, Tea! Thanks so much for the feedback :)
This cornbread comes out perfect every single time!!! I follow the recipe exactly except I use Apple cider vinegar. Thank you for a fantastic reliable delicious recipe!
So glad you’re loving it!! Thanks so much for the feedback :)
Way too much salt (1 1/4 tsp), should be more like a 1/2 tsp at most, otherwise texture was right on. Will make with a lot less salt next time.
Hi KJ, what kind of salt did you use? If yours was a super fine salt or table salt, that may have been why it turned out tasting super salty.
Firmly believe this is the best GF and egg-free cornbread recipe out there. I’ve been making it for years, and I only recently started making them into mini muffins as well! So addictive, I pour into my mini muffin tin and bake for 15 mins at 350. Even though they’re a bit delicate, they still hold up just fine once cooled. Cannot recommend enough!
What a compliment! Sounds so good and dangerous as little minis – I’d be popping those in my mouth allll day long!