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Welcome to The OTHER Side of Mindful BakeHouse
The side for the do-it-yourselfers, the adventurous bakers, and those that live a little to far away to make it to our bakery in person. This is where I post all the fun gluten-free dairy-free things I've been testing/making that aren't official BakeHouse recipes. Most of which we also share on our YouTube Channel, as well as our second instagram account, & TikTok. So if you're like me and you'd rather watch than read, feel free to go follow us on your fav social media app in
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Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Brownie & Bar Recipes
Frosted Avocado Brownies | V & GF
If you have one avocado you need these small batch avocado brownies in your life - we put half the avocado in the batter which ends up so rich and decadent and delicious. I could eat it by the spoonful and there’s no ingredient in it that says you can’t (I didn’t lick all the spatulas clean…). Then after it’s cooled, we use the other half of the avocado to make avocado frosting, which is essentially chocolate avocado mousse on top of your fudgy, avocado brownies. And they’re
Jan 31
Reeses Peanut Butter Hearts - high protein or regular
Watch our video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/lKlMQsydcrM?feature=share Naturally sweetened, better for you, Reese’s peanut butter hearts for Valentine’s Day 💘🍫 - made 3 ways so you can make your fav!! 1️⃣ ALMOND REESES 1/4 cup(64g) peanut butter or nut butter of choice 3/4 cup (74g) almond flour 1/4 cup (60g) maple syrup* pinch sea salt 2️⃣ COCONUT REESES 1/2 cup (128g) peanut butter or nut butter of choice 1/2 cup (56g) coconut flour 1/4 cup (60g) maple syrup* pinch
Jan 22
Healthier Twix/Millionaire Bars
They are essentially the same thing - just fully dip it and it’s a Twix. Either way it’ a three-layered cookie bar with a shortbread cookie base (almond coconut in our case!), a caramel filling (almond butter date caramel!), and chocolate topping. - with Twix" typically being the American term and "Millionaire's Shortbread" being the traditional UK term for the same dessert. Cookie Base: ►3/4 cup almond flour ►1/3 cup coconut flour ►1/4 cup coconut oil, melted ►2 1/2 tbsp ma
Jan 19
Sweet Potato Walnut Brownies with Fudgy Frosting
🍠🔥✨ Small-Batch GF / DF / Vegan These vegan sweet potato brownies are ultra-gooey, deeply fudgy, and topped with a rich 2-ingredient chocolate frosting. They’re completely gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and refined sugar-free, yet taste like the most decadent brownies ever 🍫✨ Perfect for cozy baking and using up leftover cooked sweet potatoes, these brownies are naturally sweetened with maple syrup and packed with rich chocolate flavor — you’d never guess they’re made wit
Jan 11
Chocolate Sweet Potato Frosting
This 2-ingredient vegan chocolate sweet potato frosting is rich, silky, and ultra-fudgy — and you’d never guess it’s made with real sweet potato. It blends into the creamiest, most decadent chocolate frosting that’s naturally gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, and refined sugar-free, with no added oils or powdered sugar 🍫✨ Perfect for spreading, swirling, or eating straight off the spoon, this frosting is deeply chocolatey with a luscious, truffle-like texture. I’m using it to
Jan 11
Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies (Buckeye Brownies) | GF/DF/RSF
If you thought my cornflake brownies were dangerous, watch out - these small batch buckeye brownies are going to be your new fav treat! They’re gf/df/rsf and combine some of the best things in life: a rich fudgey brownie base, a peanut butter layer that taste’s like a Reese’s, and a chocolate PB ganache with PB swirls. It’s basically a Reese’s brownie. BROWNIES -1 eggs -1/2 cup coconut sugar -1/4 cup coconut oil, melted -1/4 cup almond or oat flour -2 tbsp + 2 tsp cocoa powde
Jan 8
Triple Chocolate Almond Flour Brownies
These are SOOOO good & SOOOO easy to make. Just dump it all in one bowl and mix! Bake, top with a simple glaze and enjoy these super delicious triple chocolate almond flour cakey-style brownies. Customize this by choosing the sweetener that suits you best: you can use regular white sugar to keep it easy, coconut sugar for paleo, or a sugar substitute (we used allulose) for keto/low-carb. Brownie Ingredients: 3/4c almond flour 1/2c granulated sweetener (we used allulose) 1/2c
Jan 4
Caramel Cornflake Brownies (GF/DF/RSF)
These Caramel Cornflake Brownies are inspired by Crumbs & Doilies / Cupcake Gemma — but made gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar–free! They are everything you could want in a holiday treat - it starts with a rich fudgey chocolatey brownie, and is layered with an addictively crunchy almond butter caramel cornflake topping.… unreal, and oh so dangerous. Brownies 2 eggs 1 cup granulated sweetener of choice (I used coconut sugar) 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted 1/2 cup almond
Dec 14, 2025
Macadamia Crack Bars - GF/DF/Sugar-Free/Keto deliciousness
Sometimes, the best thing you can do in the kitchen… is not reinvent the wheel. It’s totally okay to make someone else’s recipe. In fact—it's one of my favourite ways to grow as a self-taught baker. Every time you follow another creator’s directions, you pick up something new: maybe a technique you never thought of, an ingredient you've never used before, or a flavour combo that suddenly becomes your new obsession. And today? I fell hard for these Macadamia Crack Bars — gl
Dec 7, 2025
🍒✨ Cranberry Crumble Bars | Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Vegan
Got a leftover bag of cranberries after Thanksgiving? (Or did you, like me, buy extras on purpose?) Either way, you need to make these. Cozy, tart, and perfectly crumbly, these Cranberry Crumble Bars are the ultimate holiday treat—though I won’t judge if you make them year-round. With a wholesome base of gluten-free oats and almond flour, plus a bright cranberry–orange filling that tastes like Thanksgiving in every bite, they’re vegan, dairy-free, and completely irresistibl
Dec 4, 2025
✨Copycat Starbucks Cranberry Bliss Bar made gf/df/v/sf
A soft & chewy, better-for-you gf/df/v/sf copycat blondie studded with dried cranberries, orange zest, and dairy-free white chocolate—topped with a tangy cashew “cream-cheese” frosting, more cranberries, and a drizzle of white chocolate. Makes: 8×8 pan (or half batch in a 4×8 loaf pan) Cashew “Cream Cheese” Frosting Ingredients 1 cup raw cashews, soaked 4 hours or quick-soaked in boiling water 20 minutes ¼ cup coconut cream (thick scoop from top of chilled can) 3 tbsp lemon
Nov 27, 2025
2 Ingredient Brownies!! ACTUALLY WORKS!
I kept seeing this recipe/video on YouTube & TikTok and was super skeptical, so I had to try it myself - and it actually worked! Super easy, & no fancy kitchen equipment needed. Ingredients: 1 1/3c chocolate chips* also works with sugar-free choc chips! or white choc chips 4 eggs Directions: -preheat your oven to 350F and line a 8x8 baking pan with parchment -melt chocolate chips in 30 second increments until melted, then let cool for 5 minutes -crack eggs into a separate bow
Nov 24, 2025
Brownie Box Mix Chickpea Hack | Vegan, Egg-free Oil-Free Brownie Swap
Let’s try the hack where you use a can of chickpeas in place of the oil/water/eggs called for on your box mix brownies to make egg-free/vegan brownies. It also significantly changes the macros (see chart below ⬇️) Please refer to your brownie box mix ingredients if you need it to be fully vegan - the simple mills box mix we used was vegan You need: -Standard sized Brownie Box Mix (to make a 8x8 or 9x9 brownie) -1 can of chickpeas Steps: 1. Drain & rinse your chickpeas, then a
Nov 17, 2025
Fudgey Almond Flour Brownies | Tim Hortons Gluten Free Dairy Free Copycat
You asked to take the Tim Horton's Brownie Copycat recipe and convert it to gluten-free and dairy-free. So I made a bunch of test batches (some that failed epicly, lol), but this one turned out so fudge & killer!! OMG I'm obsessed. PLUS, it's made without refined oils, and can easily be made without refined sugars (or even low-carb keto if you use a sugar-free sweetener & s.f. choc chips!). We made these with a 50:50 mix of allulose and coconut sugar. Original Recipe: - 1/2 c
Nov 17, 2025
🍏🍂White Chocolate Apple Cinnamon Blondies #FallIntoShorts Day 17
These fall-inspired (gluten-free, dairy-free) blondies are packed with white chocolate chips & spiced apples. They are crunchy on top, and a perfectly chewy in the middle. Just try stop at one! Makes: 8x8 pan (I cut into 16 squares) INGREDIENTS: Apples: -1 medium apple, peeled & chopped (I like Granny Smith or Honeycrisp for this) -1 tbsp maple syrup -1/2 tsp cinnamon -1/8 tsp nutmeg Blondies: -1 cup granulated sweetener of choice* -1/2 cup coconut oil, melted -2 eggs, room t
Nov 1, 2025
😍🍫Vegan Sweet Potato Brownies #fallintoshorts Day 14
These vegan sweet potato brownies are the gooeyest, fudgiest, and most decadent brownies you’ll ever try — and they’re totally gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free! 🍫✨ Perfect for using up leftover cooked sweet potatoes and cozy fall baking. Naturally sweetened with maple syrup and packed with rich chocolate flavour — you’d never guess they’re made with real, wholesome ingredients. Ingredients: ►1 large sweet potato, cooked* & cooled (mine was 314g without skin)
Oct 29, 2025
S’more Crumble Bars | gluten-free, dairy-free
These gluten-free smore crumble bars are super delicious & so easy to make - no fire needed! We start with an almond-oat crust (or sub our low-carb crumble recipe below), then a layer of chocolate and marshmallows, and a crumble topping. a LOW CARB: Make these low-carb using our low-carb no-oat crumble recipe below, combined with s.f. choc chips, and homemade s.f. marshmallows. Short video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/iu-IwT57A4U?feature=share CRUMBLE INGREDIENTS: ►1 3/4
Aug 26, 2025
Plum Crumble Bars | gf, df, vegan
We recently bought WAY too many yellow plums from a local farm market, and after eating our fill of them fresh/as is, it’s time to start turning them into yummy baked goods. I brainstormed several ideas, like a frangipane tart, or plum cake, before landing on this recipe. I didn’t feel like taking the time to develop my own recipe for this one, so I grabbed my trusty Bakerita cookbook by Rachel Conners. Her recipes always deliver, are gluten-free, refined-sugar free, dairy-fr
Aug 26, 2025
Healthier Magic “Seven Layer” Cookie Bars
I recently dropped off some of our bakery’s gf/df/v goodies to The Panetteria, a local bakery that carries our stuff, and my daughter picked out a few of their things for our family to share - one of which was a Magic Bar, and boy did it tempt me - I LOVE magic bars (and really, ANYTHING coconut). So instead of “gluten-ing” myself and paying for one magical bite, I decided to dust off my recipe for a better-for-you version. This version is rich, gooey, and satisfying, just li
Aug 6, 2025
Day 11 of Healthy Summer Treats: 🍫🥜2-Ingredient Chocolate Freezer Fudge
Super easy, creamy chocolate PB fudge (or sub your fav nut butter!) You’ll need: ►1 cup df/v dark chocolate or chocolate of choice (use s.f. for low-carb/keto!)* ►1 cup peanut butter/almond butter/cashew butter or other nut/seed butter of choice* *choose a chocolate & nut butter you love the flavour of, as they are the only ingredients. Instructions: ►Combine your chocolate & nut butter in a microwave safe bowl. ►Microwave in 30 second bursts until fully melted, then mix unti
Jun 20, 2025
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