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Home » Baked Goods » Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cornbread

December 7, 2020 (last updated February 7, 2021)

Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cornbread

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This gluten-free dairy-free cornbread is fluffy, light and just sweet enough. I promise, you won’t miss the gluten or dairy in this recipe. The recipe makes an 8″ square pan or 12 standard sized muffins. Use this recipe to make the most popular snacks at my parties Gluten-Free Corn Dog Bites. Baked in a mini muffin tin with some cut up hot dogs or spicy sausage, they make a perfect game time bite.

This cornbread would be perfect with my baby back ribs at a backyard BBQ and my easy broccoli slaw.

close up of white plate with 2 pieces of gluten-free dairy-free cornbread with honey, butter on knife and bowl of butter in back.

One Bowl Cornbread Recipe

There is nothing worse than getting your recipe into the oven and turning around to find a huge mess! I am always looking for ways to avoid using that one extra bowl or spoon, This gf, df cornbread can be mixed up in one bowl. My trick is to mix up the liquid ingredients in the measuring cup, which I need no matter what. Note that the “milk” and “sour cream” shown are vegan (see recommendations below). Here’s how it’s done:

Gluten-Free Toaster Corn Muffins

gluten-free dairy free toaster corn muffins topped with butter. Spoon drizzling honey on top. Knife with butter in front, butter bowl and more muffins in background. wood board background

Remember those Thomas’ toaster corn muffins? Maybe not? It’s a corn muffin that goes in the toaster for a perfectly ready-made muffin. All you need is a muffin top pan and a half recipe of this cornbread, About 2-3 Tbsps of batter in each well works best (this fills them almost to the top). Bake 7-8 minutes at 350. They are a little small for a toaster, so I reheat them in the toaster oven and slather with salted butter and honey. Heavenly!!

close up of muffin top pan with corn muffin tops
Muffin Top Pan

Ingredients

Gluten-Free Flour

I have used several different gluten-free flour blends for this recipe and they all worked well. My custom blend of sorghum, millet and brown rice flours with potato and tapioca starches is my favorite.

Here is my special flour blend that I love for this recipe and many more of my gluten-free recipes:

  • 1 c sweet white sorghum flour
  • 3/4 c millet flour
  • ¼ c brown rice flour
  • 2/3 c potato starch
  • 1/3 c tapioca starch

See the notes in the recipe for a super simple DIY gluten-free flour blend or my blog post on gluten-free flour blends.

If you prefer a store bought blend, I highly recommend King Arthur Flour All Purpose Gluten-Free flour (gluten-free certified). This is their blend that does not contain xanthan gum. Omit the xanthan gum from the recipe if your flour blend contains it.

Dairy-Free Ingredients

close up of gluten-free dairy-free corn muffin with honey drizzling on top

This gf cornbread gets its perfect fluffy, moist texture with the use of a dairy-free sour cream. Kite Hill Sour Cream Alternative is my favorite one. I have also used Follow your Heart and Forager vegan sour creams with good results.

Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks are the best butter alternative. I have recently been able to find an unsalted version which is so helpful for baking! If you use a salted version, reduce the salt in the recipe to 1/2 tsp.

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2 pieces of gluten free dairy free cornbread dripping with honey on small white plate. Plate with cornbread, honey bottle in background.

Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cornbread

Yield: 1 8x8 pan or 12 muffins
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes

This gluten-free, dairy free cornbread is sweet, light and will have you swooning!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup gluten-free flour blend*
  • ¾ c corn meal
  • 6 Tbsps sugar
  • 2¾ tsp baking powder
  • ⅛ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp xanthan gum
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • ⅔ c milk sub
  • ½ c dairy free sour cream or yogurt - Kite Hill Sour Cream Alternative recommended
  • 4 Tbsp melted butter substitute, Earth Balance Unsalted Vegan Buttery Sticks are best

Instructions

  1. Pre heat the oven to 350°F and grease an 8" square baking pan.
  2. Melt the vegan butter and set it aside to cool slightly.
  3. Combine the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.
  4. Beat the eggs. sour cream and milk in a small bowl. Add to the dry ingredients. Stir 10 strokes. Add the butter and stir until smooth.
  5. For cornbread, spread the batter in an even layer in the baking dish and bake for about 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. For corn muffins spoon batter into a muffin tin with paper liners and bake for 18-20 minutes.
  6. For toaster corn muffins: Use a muffin top pan with 2-3 Tbsps of batter in each well (this fills them almost to the top). Bake 7-8 minutes at 350. They are a little small for a toaster, so I reheat them in the toaster oven and slather with salted butter and honey.

Notes

If using a gluten-free flour blend that contains xanthan gum, omit it from the recipe.

For an easy DIY gluten-free flour blend, combine:
2 c brown rice flour
2/3 c potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca starch

Recommended Products

  • Earth Balance
    Earth Balance
  • Plant Based Artisanal Cheese - Kite Hill Dairy Free Products
    Plant Based Artisanal Cheese - Kite Hill Dairy Free Products
  • Organic Gluten Free Yellow Cornmeal – Arrowhead Mills
    Organic Gluten Free Yellow Cornmeal – Arrowhead Mills
  • Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour
Nutrition Information
Yield 15 Serving Size 1 muffin
Amount Per Serving Calories 177Total Fat 7gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 46mgSodium 368mgCarbohydrates 22gFiber 1gSugar 6gProtein 6g

This website is written and produced for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and the nutritional data on this site has not been evaluated or approved by a nutritionist or the Food and Drug Administration. Nutritional information is offered as a courtesy and should not be construed as a guarantee. The data is calculated using information from the Nutritionix database. Although I do my best to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures should be considered estimates only. Varying factors such as product types or brands purchased, natural fluctuations in fresh produce, and the way ingredients are processed change the effective nutritional information in any given recipe. Furthermore, different online calculators provide different results depending on their own nutrition fact sources and algorithms. To obtain the most accurate nutritional information in a given recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients used in your recipe, using your preferred nutrition calculator.

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© Janet Harlow
Cuisine: Southern American / Category: Baked Goods
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Comments

  1. Foodie Digital says

    December 18, 2020 at 4:02 pm

    This is so delish! Thanks Janet!

    Reply
    • chefjanetk@gmail.com says

      December 20, 2020 at 11:34 am

      Thanks so much!

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    • chefjanetk@gmail.com says

      March 11, 2021 at 6:26 pm

      So glad you enjoyed it!

      Reply

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