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Bakery Blog & Recipes
Welcome to The OTHER Side of Mindful BakeHouse
The side for the do-it-yourselfers, the adventurous bakers, and those that live a little too 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 i
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Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Cake & Loaf Recipes
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
It's officially zucchini season again, which means gardeners everywhere are quietly leaving giant zucchinis on their friends' doorsteps—we just had another box appear while we were out. 😂 So let's make Chocolate Zucchini Muffins! 🍫🥒🧁 They're rich, chocolatey, and packed with melty chocolate chips in every bite. The zucchini keeps them incredibly tender, but you'd never know it's there. They're gluten-free, easy to make, and can even be made low-carb with sugar-free sweete
8 hours ago
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
🍌🍫 Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Oil-Free What’s a recipe you make so often, that you could make it in your sleep? You pretty much have it memorized! Maybe you pull the recipe just to check a few ingredients, or oven time & temperature? For me, it’s these almond flour chocolate chip muffins. They’re requested so often, I can pretty much make them from memory. Sometimes it’s in muffin form, sometimes it’s in loaf form. Sometimes with nuts, sometimes with cocoa powder. But it’s the
Jun 28
Banana Snack Cake with Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting
A soft almond flour banana cake topped with tangy cashew cream cheese frosting, crunchy walnuts, and a cashew butter caramel drizzle. Gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, and perfect for snacking. 🍌✨ Ingredients Banana Cake 3 medium ripe bananas, mashed 3 large eggs ⅓ cup maple syrup 1 tbsp vanilla extract 2 cups (260g) almond flour 3 tbsp coconut flour ¾ tsp baking soda ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp sea salt 1 tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp nutmeg ½ cup walnuts, chopped Cashew Cream Cheese
Jun 16
Lemon Poppyseed Loaf
A single batch makes a beautiful poppyseed loaf, or double it & make it as a bundt cake (grease your bundt pan well instead of lining with parchment). Enjoy as is, serve with lemon curd & your favourite berries, or drizzle with a pretty lemon glaze!! Dry 1 1/2 cups (176g) almond flour 1/4 cup (25g) coconut flour 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp sea salt Wet 3 eggs zest from 2 lemons 1/2 cup lemon juice (from 2–3 lemons) 1/3 cup maple syrup 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted 1 tsp vanilla 3
May 8
Lemon Olive Oil Cake MELTS in Your Mouth (No Flour, No Refined Sugar)
This might just be my favourite lemon recipe! It’s fluffy and soft, yet moist and so lemony, yet well balanced with the sweet glaze. TBH I keep going to the fridge and taking yet another bite as I edited the recipe video together, lol. You can watch that here: https://youtube.com/shorts/lloayY32ves?si=ylN-A73aFWjNEBcV If I’ve convinced you, here’s how you make it: 🍋 Lemon Olive Oil Cake Ingredients Wet 2 large eggs (room temp) 1/4 cup (60 ml) olive oil 1/3 cup (80 ml) maple
Apr 20
Carrot Loaf Cake with Cashew Cream Cheese Frosting
Yes I know Easter is over, but I am still loving everything carrot & I hope you are too! Today I’m making an almond flour based carrot cake loaf, with freshly grated carrots, warming spices (like cinnamon, ginger & cloves), and topped with the creamiest cashew-cream-cheese frosting that I could eat but the tub. (Can’t/don’t do cashews - simply swap for an equal weight almonds or even almond flour). Carrot Loaf Cake Ingredients 1/3 cup (75g) coconut sugar 1/4 cup coconut oi
Apr 13
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
✨Blender Banana Bread
Almond + Coconut Flour | GF • Paleo • DF • Oil-Free Moist, cozy, and comes together in the blender (so the bananas are perfectly pureed & disappear into the batter - no banana chunks here). Made with almond & coconut flour so it’s gluten/grain-free, naturally paleo, dairy-free, and even oil-free if that’s your jam. 🍌🍫 Ingredients 2 ripe bananas 3 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract ¼ cup maple syrup or honey 130g / 1 cup almond flour 2 tbsp coconut flour 1 tsp baking soda ½ ts
Jan 6
Viral Olympic Double Chocolate Muffins | Worth the Hype?
Have you seen these viral Olympic muffins? Swimmer Henrik Christiansen, from Norway, has gone viral on TikTok for his love of the Olympic Village “Choccy Muffin” (essentially a double chocolate muffin stuffed with ganache) We had to make some & see if they’re worth all the hype. And you can too! But ONLY if you’re a HUGE chocolate lover - these have a LOT of chocolate. Muffin Batter: 3/4c milk/plant mylk 1/4c water 2tsp instant coffee/espresso powder 1/2c cocoa powder 3/4c se
Jan 4
Twice Baked Chocolate Cake = Half Cake & Half Molten Lava
I’ve heard of double baked potatoes, and double baked cookies (aka biscotti) but have you heard of a double baked cake?!? I hadn’t until I saw these guys do it: Inspired by: @butterbutternz and Cupcake Jemma/Ravneet Gill https://youtu.be/zyMF41DzGPU?si=hWgwV-2X42MO_v8g And it just happens to be flour-less/gluten-free! I used theirs as a starting point but downsized it to make it a 1/4 batch size as well as made it dairy-free, & sugar-free/low carb. Ingredients for 1/4 batch &
Jan 4
Heart-Shaped Cupcakes without a Special Pan 🫶🧁
Here’s an easy hack to make heart-shaped cupcakes for Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day (or any other day!) with a regular cupcake pan. Use a marble, a ceramic pie weight, or simply a little ball of scrunched up foil. Watch our video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/XsThCwlNDcg #heartcupcakes #mothersday #valentinesday #galentinesday #bakinghack
Jan 4
I Tried Dr Gundry's Almond Joy Muffins 🍫🥥
Healthy Almond Joy Muffins I tried making Dr Steven Gundry’s Almond Joy muffins (with a few tweaks)! As a HUGE coconut lover, and fan of the Bounty bar, these were right up my alley! But stay away if you don’t LOVE coconut!! (And leave more for me, lol) These healthy chocolate almond coconut muffins are a great meal prep/snack for school/work. They’re gluten-free, dairy-free, lectin-free, paleo, and low carb/keto friendly, and packed with coconut, almond, and chocolate. Ingre
Jan 4
Marble Chocolate Pumpkin Loaf
We’re giving our yummy Starbucks copycat pumpkin loaf an upgrade by making it a marbled-chocolate-pumpkin loaf. ☺️ ⬇️ RECIPE ⬇️ MARBLE PUMPKIN LOAF (GF/DF/Paleo/Low Carb option): -1 cup pumpkin puree (not pie filling) -3 eggs -3/4c coconut sugar (we actually used brown allulose* here) -1 tbsp vanilla -2 3/4 cups almond flour -1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice** -1 tsp baking soda -1 tsp baking powder -1/2 tsp salt Chocolate Layer: -3 tbsp cocao powder -2 tsp milk of choice (I used alm
Jan 4
Chocolate Orange Truffle Layer Cake
It's tradition to give my husband a zillion Terry's chocolate oranges every Christmas, so I wasn't surprised there were two requests to make his birthday cake be a chocolate orange cake - so I made him a whole orange almond cake, frosted with dairy-free chocolate-coconut milk ganache, and homemade chocolate-orange slices. Here's how I did it: Cake Ingredients: 2 medium oranges or 4 clementines 6 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla 250g almond flour 250g granulated sweetener of choice (
Dec 26, 2025
Make a Heart Cake WITHOUT a Heart Pan ♡
💌 HEART CAKE HOW TO - If you have a round cake pan, here’s how you turn it into a heart, and no scraps! (Ok, maybe the tiniest scraps, but they’re great for a tiny taste test to make sure you baked the cake perfectly!😉) 1️⃣ Start with a baked & cooled round cake ⭕️ 2️⃣ Mark the centre across your cake (but don’t cut!) 🔪 3️⃣ Then mark the centre the other direction, marking quarters on the cake ❌ 4️⃣ Cut off 2 edges, mark to mark, making sure to cut 2 side-by-side edges (⚠️
Nov 17, 2025
✨🎃 Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread #FallIntoShorts Day 8
GF/DF/Paleo/easy Low Carb option INGREDIENTS: -1 cup pumpkin puree (not pie filling) -3 eggs -3/4c granulated brown sweetener (coconut sugar/brown allulose/brown swerve/etc) -1 tbsp vanilla -2 3/4 cups almond flour -1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice -1 tsp baking soda -1 tsp baking powder -1/2 tsp salt -1/2 cup dark chocolate chips of choice INSTRUCTIONS: ►Combine wet, add dry & chocolate chips ►Transfer to parchment lined loaf pan ►Bake at 350F for 50-60 minutes (when a toothpick com
Oct 24, 2025
🍊🍫🍰 Chocolate Orange Almond Cake | GF DF SF-option Day 1 of #fallintoshorts
Who else loves the combo of chocolate & orange? The whole orange cake is wonderful by itself, but chocolate ganache puts it over the edge…. 🍫🍊🍰🤤 Whether we credit this recipe to Claudia Rosen (the OG that first made it with whole oranges) or to Nigella Lawson (who made it beyond famous & used whole clementine), this is a beautiful gluten-free/grain-free recipe that’s perfect for fall/winter. I happen to have oranges so we’re going with Claudia’s version this time, but add
Oct 14, 2025
Black Forest Brownie Cake 🍒🤍🍫
The original recipe for this chocolate cherry brownie cake is by Radhi Devlukia-Shetty in her cookbook: “JoyFULL” (but we made a few tweaks based on ingredient availability at a friend’s house). I’m totally loving the savoury recipes in Radhi’s book, and also make her moon milk recipes almost every night before bed. So I thought it would be fun to try her brownie cake recipe - It’s gluten free, egg free, dairy free, refined sugar free & vegan. And instead of stacking & “icing
Sep 30, 2025
Streusel Coffee Cake with Cinnamon Sugar Ripple & Coconut Butter Glaze
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Refined Sugar Free, No Starch, Keto/Low-Carb-Friendly The perfectly cozy fall coffee cake, with warm cinnamon sugar streusel and cinnamon sugar ribbon, topped with a creamy coconut butter drizzle. Use your go-to granulated sweetener to easily customize this for your lifestyle: make it easy with white/brown sugar, use your fav sugar sub for a low-carb/keto/diabetic-friendly version, or use coconut/maple sugar for a paleo RSF version. ⬇️ RECIPE ⬇️ Keto-
Sep 11, 2025
🍰 The BEST Flourless Chocolate Cake
Decadent, yet super easy to make, flourless chocolate cake. It’s completely flour-less (not even almond flour!! So nut-free too!) And you can make it dairy-free and/or sugar-free/low carb by using dairy-free and/or sugar-free chocolate chips along with your sweetener of choice. Have fun with your toppings (to me nothing goes better with warm cake than a scoop of cold vanilla ice cream, but traditionally it gets topped with a dusting of powdered sugar or cocao powder, and some
Aug 28, 2025
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