Cornbread Recipe (Gluten & Dairy Free)

This gluten free dairy free cornbread recipe comes out light, fluffy and golden brown and can be enjoyed with chili or soup, as a side dish to any main course, or just as a snack.

Below I provide options for ingredient substitutions, as well as directions on making it vegan, lower calorie and lower sugar.

Product brands I recommend for this recipe

• Robin Hood gluten-free flour
• So Delicious coconut milk
• Nutiva butter flavoured coconut oil
• Purity cornmeal
• Real Salt

Equipment you will need for this recipe

• KitchenAid stand mixer (or hand mixer)
• 9 x 9” glass baking dish
• Oven 
• Toothpicks 

Recipe substitutions or variations

Substitutions:

Gluten-free flour substitutions: instead of using a gluten-free flour blend, you could also use any other type of gluten-free flour. Depending on what you use, make sure to check online conversion charts because not all gluten-free flours convert 1 to 1.

Coconut milk substitutions: instead of using coconut milk, you can use any other type of dairy free milk.

Butter flavoured coconut oil substitutions: Instead of butter flavoured coconut oil, you can use regular coconut oil, a vegan butter substitute, or any other cooking oil of your choice.

Brown sugar substitutions: instead of using brown sugar, you can use white sugar, coconut palm sugar, or a low carb sugar substitute such as Swerve.

Egg substitutions: instead of using a real egg, you can swap it out for a vegan egg substitution.

Cornmeal substitutions: instead of cornmeal, you can use corn flour, polenta, or corn grits.

Variations:

Make this recipe lower calorie/fat: Instead of using ⅓ cup of melted coconut oil, you can cut it down to 1 to 2 tablespoons and then top up the rest of the ⅓ cup with additional coconut milk or other dairy free milk. Make sure to use a lower calorie coconut milk instead of the full fat canned coconut milk.

Make this recipe lower sugar: Instead of ⅔ cup of brown sugar, you can cut it down to ⅓ cup and top the rest up with gluten-free flour. Alternatively, to make this recipe sugar-free, replace the entire ⅔ cup of sugar with gluten free flour.

Make this recipe vegan: Replace the egg with one vegan egg substitute.

Make this recipe lower oxalate: Instead of using a gluten-free flour blend, use white rice flour. Make sure to use coconut milk instead of other dairy free milk.

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