I’ve tried no-corn “cornbread” a couple of times now. I tried it with the little baby corn. I’ve tried it with the corn extract. And for some reason, I never really end up with anything that tastes very “corny”. Oh, the muffins were good. But ain’t no way they’d pass for cornbread. I was never a cornbread-with-every-meal kinda guy but I have a pretty good idea of what cornbread tastes like.
Something I haven’t tried is subbing something like a tablespoon or two of real corn flour into one of the recipes just to see if it would add some flavor. The extract gives it a nice cornbread smell, that’s nice. But I want the flavor. Texture works quite well with almond flour since it tends to be a tad more course anyway.