Homemade Cornbread (Vegan Option Included)

Recently for my Mum's Birthday, we went to a fantastic restaurant that happened to be Cowboy and Western themed! It was fantastic, and one thing from the menu became a firm favourite with my dad - cornbread! We've searched high and low in supermarkets since, but cannot find any anywhere! I took to Google, found a recipe and adapted it to recreate the ones we had with John Wayne...and here it is! I also adjusted it to make a vegan version which I will show below in this colour. I hope you enjoy!

You will need:

• 1/4 Cup of Butter (Or Violife Butter if Vegan)
• 1 Cup of Milk (Use Unsweetened Non-Dairy Milk of Vegan)
• 1 Large Egg (Use a Flax Egg = 1tbsp Ground Flax Seed + 3tbsp Water) 
• 1 + 1/2 Cups of Yellow Cornmeal (I found this one in Asda)
• 1 Cup Plain Flour
• 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
• 1tbsp Baking Powder
• 1/2tsp Salt
• 1/2 Cup Sweetcorn 

Method 

1. Preheat your oven to 160c. 

2. In a large bowl combine the room temperature butter, milk and egg (or their alternatives) with a whisk until well mixed.

3. Add in the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and sweetcorn (all together) and stir to mix the wet and dry ingredients. When your batter looks like lumpy yellow custard - you know it's ready! 

4. Pour into your choice of oven wear. I like to make mine in a muffin tray,  so they come out as individual portions. However you can bake this in a cake tin, a sandwich tin, baking tray - anything you like as long as it's oven safe!

5. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes until they have risen and are springy to the touch! 

I hope you enjoyed my recipe for cornbread! I feel like this recipe has something for everyone - a recipe for dairy eaters alongside a recipe for vegans! I hope to do more like this in the future so no one is left out. Being vegan myself, finding out about a "Flax Egg" has made baking a thing I can enjoy again! If you want to see my baking post from last week on testing out baking from a bottle click here! 

Thanks for reading!