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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 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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✨🍚 Creamy Vegan Rice Pudding | 🍂 #FallIntoShorts Day 20
Get cozy with this creamy, dreamy vegan & gluten-free rice pudding — the perfect fall comfort dessert! Made with coconut milk and naturally sweetened to taste, it’s rich, warming, and endlessly customizable. Ingredients (Makes 2-4 servings) ½ cup short grain or arborio rice, rinsed & drained 1 can full-fat coconut milk 2–4 tbsp sweetener (maple syrup, sugar or sweetener of choice) 1 cinnamon stick or ¼ tsp ground cinnamon* pinch of sea salt 1 tsp vanilla Optional Toppings: R
Nov 5
🍫☕️DIY Hot Chocolate Mix | #FallIntoShorts Day 16
With the cool fall weather here, treat yourself to an over the top, chocolately, super rich & creamy homemade hot chocolate. Make a single cup, or make a bulk batch, to make it more often without having to pull all your ingredients & measuring spoons out every time! This creamy hot chocolate can be easily customized with your favourite sweeteners. I love using a milk frother for this!! But you can totally just stir it too. Enjoy! Single: 2.5 tbsp cocao powder 2 tbsp powdered
Oct 31
😍🍫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
🍪Double Decker (Cookie Dough) Cookies #FallIntoShorts Day 5
This is like a brookie (brownie+cookie) in cookie-form! We’re calling them “double-decker cookies”. We start with a chocolate cookies (go ahead and add some choc chips if you want it EVEN more chocolately), topped with cookie dough. Who says we need to choose? :P Makes 5 Double Decker Cookies 🍫 DOUBLE CHOCOLATE COOKIES 1 cup almond flour 2 tsp coconut flour 2 tsp coconut sugar/sweetener of choice 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1/4 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp vanilla 5 tbsp ma
Oct 22
Coconut Almond Nut Bars | Grain-Free Granola Bars
Makes: 10 bars with silicone granola bar mold NUTS 1cup sliced/slivered almonds* 1/2cup walnuts, roughly chopped* 1/2cup large coconut flakes (aka “coconut chips”) 1/2cup desiccated coconut *you can sub these for your fav nut/mixture of nuts - this is just my base recipe HONEY MIXTURE 1/2tsp cinnamon/pumpkin pie spice (I used our pumpkin pie spice mix) 1/2tsp vanilla 1/4tsp salt 2tbsp coconut oil 1tbsp coconut butter (I used our DIY coconut butter) 1tbsp almond butter 3tbsp h
Oct 10
🍔 Red Lentil Buns | Easy Food Processor Recipe
Here’s a super easy homemade bun/flatbread recipe, made with a few simple ingredients. We’re using red lentils, psyllium husk and baking powder. These are gluten-free, grain-free (if you make your own baking powder like me!), egg-free, dairy-free, and vegan, and packed with nutrients. Watch our full step-by-step video here: https://youtu.be/b6EDCvAvWdU And watch to the end to see how to sub out all or some lentils for quinoa!! INGREDIENTS •1 cup red lentils (soaked in water f
Aug 17
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
Perfectly Snappy Graham Crackers | Gluten-Free & Vegan
These perfectly crispy, perfectly sweet graham crackers are gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan, starch-free and can be made sugar-free/low carb too. These are great for fun summer dips (s’mores dip, cookie dough dip, cheesecake dip), by itself, or made into s’mores or other layered desserts like frozen protein s’mores, strawberry ice box cake, or tiramisu icebox cake (watch our next video for that recipe!) INGREDIENTS: ►2 cups almond flour ►3 tbsp coconut su
Jul 2
🍓🍰😋 Day 21 of Healthy Summer Treats | 3 Ingredient Strawberry Icebox Cake
Today we’re making a 3-ingredient, 5-minute, no bake, 12-layer strawberry icebox cake. All you need is whipcream, graham crackers and fresh strawberries. After you’ve layered your icebox cake, it simply chills in your icebox (aka fridge) until the cookies have softened (about 3-4 hours or overnight). It’s perfect for a summer party or picnic. And if you feel super ambitious, we have links to our coconut whip cream and gf/v graham cracker recipes below. Enjoy!! INGREDIENTS: ►
Jun 29
🍨🍕Day 19 of Healthy Summer Treats | Frozen Dessert Pizza #SummerOnShorts
Now that you have an easy gf/df/v no-bake brownie batter recipe, and some easy df/v ice cream recipes, TODAY we’re putting it all together and showing you how to make an ice cream dessert pizza, inspired by Dairy Queen’s Treatzza Pizza but better, because there are no rules!! And no limits to the flavour combos you can make at home!! PB chocolate?!? Yes!! Chocolate strawberry!?! Yes!! “Snickers” or “Reese’s”?! Strawberry Banana?? Oreo & fudge?!? Chocolate caramel turtles?? Ba
Jun 27
Day 8 of Healthy Summer Treats: 🍪🍨 Ice cream cookie cups - eat your bowl.
We’re making some fun cookie cups to serve ice cream sundaes! You don't even need a spoon AND you can eat your bowl. 😉🙌🏻 STEPS: ► Shape your cookie dough onto the backside of a muffin tin to make a cup shape ► Bake per cookie instructions & let cool ► Carefully pop off your cookie cups and fill with your favourite ice cream & toppings & enjoy!! RECIPE: ► Make them using your fav choc chip cookie recipe OR we used our easy one bowl gluten-free vegan chocolate chip cookie do
Jun 18
No Oat Crumble Fudge Bars | GF/DF/V/Low-Carb
These yummy bars are our version of a no-bake oatmeal chocolate fudge crumble bar. But ours are gluten-free, grain-free, oat-free, starch-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan, refined-sugar-free (and can be totally sugar-free, low-carb too!) For 8x8 pan, makes 16 squares (or half the recipe and make it in a loaf pan) Crumble Ingredients: -1 1/2 cups almond flour -2 tbsp coconut flour -1 cup desiccated coconut (unsweetened dried coconut) -6 tbsp brown allulose/sweetener of choice
Jun 7
🍋 Iced Lemon Loaf | Healthy Starbucks copycat | Vegan & Gluten-Free
We had a taste of summer weather here this week (20 degrees Celcius!! & shorts & t-shirt weather) and I was vibing lemon stuff. So we made a bunch of fun lemony stuff at our gf/df bakery and I really felt like making a healthier Starbucks Lemon Loaf dupe for us, complete with the creamy lemony glaze. Yum! Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/mBPEn_bWpfk?si=xD85GtRb5Y3uXm35&list=PL2aqa_VNUFljLW7ub_lnxlgUV1GwcOKfk 🍰 Lemon Loaf Zest of 2 lemons (approx 2 tbsp) - treat as
Mar 23
Deep Fried Ice Cream | made Gluten-Free Dairy-Free & Vegan
Vanilla ice cream coated in a layer of crushed cereal, and fried until crunchy on outside. The ice cream becomes slightly melty under the coating, yet frozen in the middle. The BEST combination of hot & cold, creamy & crunchy!! Top with your choice of whip cream and/or chocolate sauce & enjoy!! You can watch the full step-by-step video here: https://youtu.be/i8YYtXEL77g YOU’LL NEED: -ice cream of choice (we used dairy-free/vegan So Delicious Vanilla) -cereal(s) of choice (we
Mar 9
Banoffee Pie Bars | Gluten-Free, Paleo, Vegan, Low-Carb Option
“Banoffee” comes from banana + toffee. Two of the yummy layers that make up this delicious layered dessert. Our version starts with an almond flour paleo shortbread base (with a low-carb/keto option), topped with a thick toffee/caramel layer (also with low-carb/keto option), banana slices, unsweetened coconut whip cream, and shaved chocolate. Full video can be found here: https://youtu.be/asuYy_BdvHc ==================== INGREDIENTS Crust -1 1/2 cups almond flour -1/2 teaspoo
Feb 17
Decadent Chocolate Caramel Tarts | gluten-free & vegan
I am a SUCKER for anything chocolate OR caramel, but put them together, and OMG…. In this dessert we’ve got a perfectly tender fuss-free almond flour shortbread crust, oogy gooey no cook date caramel filling, topped with decadent chocolate fudge ganache. Wow. Perfect for an elevated dessert after a special dinner (Valentine’s/Galentine’s is coming up!! 😉💝), or just cuz you love chocolate & caramel as much as I do… Watch the full process/video, for more tips & tricks, and fo
Feb 3
🥞🧇 Super Easy Blender Waffles/ Pancakes (GF/DF/V)
I made these easy blender waffles/pancakes at the bakery this week, while hanging out with my daughter. She likes pancakes, and I prefer waffles so this batter does double duty, and can easily do both!! Toss it all in a blender, and you're ready to go. It's THAT easy! https://youtube.com/shorts/YioozhXjoRc?feature=share Using a 1/4cup scoop, this makes 9-10 mini waffles/pancakes INGREDIENTS 2 ripe bananas 2 cups (160g) of rolled oats 1 cup (240mL) plant milk of your choice (w
Nov 3, 2024
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