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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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Thanksgiving PREORDERS Now Open!!
All our holiday goodies are added back onto our site, plus the new savoury pies from The Bread Essentials and all the new nut-free goodies from Newton's No Gluten, and we are now taking preorders for Thanksgiving. I've created a "holiday" filter/page, but you can totally order anything on our website for pickup, I just tried ot make it easier to find the pies, and stuffing, and dinner rolls, etc. All products: https://www.mindfulbakehouse.com/shop Holiday page: https://www.mi
Sep 30, 2024
3-Ingredient Flaxbread | Gluten-Free, Keto, Vegan
This gluten-free bread uses just 3 main ingredients, comes together in less than 5 minutes (not including bake time), and has under 0.4g net carbs per slice*. It’s full of fibre, high in healthy omega 3’s, loaded with vitamins & minerals (including thiamine, copper, iron, potassium), while also low in carbs, gluten-free, grain-free, wheat-free, flourless, yeast-free, oil-free, starch-free, keto, paleo, egg-free, dairy-free & vegan = all the things! It slices & toasts nicely,
Sep 30, 2024
🍯 How To Make Whipped Honey (1-Ingredient & 2-Ingredient recipes)
Creamed honey, spun honey, and whipped honey, are all names for the same thing: crystallized honey that has been whipped until fluffy. https://youtu.be/JvX77F3zbGg Don’t throw out your honey when it has crystallized! Give it a second life & stretch your dollar by whipping it & turning it into the creamiest DIY whipped honey. It sounds so fancy but all we do is tip it into a mixing bowl (use at least 1 cup honey for best results) and whip it for about 20 minutes on medium/hig
Sep 28, 2024
The BEST Vegan Chocolate Avocado Mousse
Rich & creamy, decadent (and healthy!!) chocolate dessert made with avocados. It could not be easier!! https://youtu.be/QyG3qUCTNeA INGREDIENTS: -2 ripe avocados -1/2 cup almond milk -1/2 cup cocao powder -1/3 cup maple syrup or sweetener of choice or 8 soaked dates -2 tsp vanilla -pinch sea salt Combine in food processor and blend until smooth. Divide into bowls or jars and enjoy! #vegan #dairyfree #paleo #lowcarb #healthyrecipes #avocado #chocolate
Sep 28, 2024
How To Make Coconut Butter | Just 1 Ingredient!
Stop paying for expensive coconut manna and make your own at home in minutes with our homemade coconut butter recipe! https://youtu.be/6a10QQZ212I INGREDIENTS: -2 or more cups of unsweetened dried coconut aka desiccated coconut NOTE: Make sure it’s dried coconut, fresh will not work EQUIPMENT: -food processor, high speed blender,(or even your coffee grinder in small batches!) STEPS: -Add your coconut to your blender and blend until it starts to clump -Stop and scrap sides as
Sep 28, 2024
Healthy Double Chocolate Banana Bread
Made with almond flour! It's gluten-free, grain-free (no oats or rice flour), dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar free & paleo. It's another great way to use up your ripe bananas!! https://youtu.be/SShII3qDz4A INGREDIENTS: 3 ripe bananas 1/4 cup maple syrup 3 eggs 2 1/2 cups almond flour 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup chocolate chips of choice (we used coconut sweetened ones from Healthy Crunch to keep this refined-sugar-free/paleo).
Sep 28, 2024
Irresistible No-Bake Peanut Butter Bars
Super easy to make, no bake chocolate PB bars, that taste like a Reese's cup! Watch us make them: https://youtu.be/ZhjTYEVjpJ8 BASE LAYER: 2 cups almond flour 1 cup smooth peanut butter (or sub your fav nut or seed butter) 1/3 cup maple syrup (use sugar-free syrup for sugar-free PB bars!) 1/4 cup coconut oil or ghee, melted 1 tsp vanilla extract pinch sea salt TOPPING: 1 cup dark chocolate chips (or sugar-free for sugar-free PB bars!) 2 tbsp PB Combine base ingredients, and s
Sep 14, 2024
Healthy Starbucks Pumpkin Loaf Copycat with Almond Flour
Were you like me, and counting down the days until September? When it’s “ok” to start the craziness of pumpkin recipes & PSLs (pumpkin spice lattes)?!? 😜🎃🍂🧡 I’ve got an amazing healthy recipe for a Starbucks pumpkin bread/cake dupe, that you can eat guilt-free!! It’s gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free/paleo, oil-free, and even pretty low carb. All the things! YET so moist and tender and PACKED with flavour. I had to stop myself from eating the entire loaf for my
Sep 8, 2024
5 Minute No Oat Oatmeal
I’ve been loving this oatless oatmeal recipe, and have been making it on repeat for weeks, with various toppings & mix-ins. It's a great breakfast for those looking to reduce carbs, increase protein, or just to find an alternative to oatmeal. BONUS: it takes less than 5 minutes to make!! Watch our video here: https://youtu.be/tfG7T3R6QqA&list=UULFTbe_P7qBYg0h5MUVrgFOPg This recipe will make 2-3 servings (depending on what toppings/mix-ins/how much additional protein you add).
Sep 2, 2024
The BEST Zucchini Oatmeal Cookies
Another sweet zucchini recipe, because, let's face it, we're still buried in zucchini over here, and maybe you are too, lol! These are soft & chewy, gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan, refined sugar free, and so delicious! Packed full of whole oats, chocolate chips and zucchini. Let's make some: INGREDIENTS 1c gf flour blend 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp sea salt 1 tsp cinnamon (or just do 1/2 tsp if you want a less strong cinnamon flavour) 1/2c coconut oil, not melted (or use vega
Aug 27, 2024
Oven Baked Breaded Zucchini Chips
Here’s the last video of our zucchini series so far!! Hopefully these help you find new & delicious ways to use up all your zucchini. This last one is a super quick and easy oven-baked breaded zucchini chip recipe, that is so addictively crunchy on the outside, and soft & creamy on the inside (and this is coming from someone who wasn’t a big fan of zucchini - maybe I just never had it prepared this way!!?!) INGREDIENTS: 1 medium zucchini 1/4c plant milk (we used almond milk)
Aug 18, 2024
Zucchini Fritters/Pancakes | Low-carb | Keto | Gluten-Free | Dairy-Free
It's zucchini season!! Anyone else have far too many zucchinis that they know what to do with? That's why you're here, right? These fritters (or do you call them "pancakes"?) are so healthy & delicious that I gobbled them up in one sitting (and I'm NOT a big zucchini fan - I hate how it gets mushy when cooked). They're pretty quick & easy to make, and you could prep a HUGE batch to use up all your zucchini, then freeze them for a quick snack/side through the week. We also jus
Aug 18, 2024
Healthy Multi-Seed & Nut Bread aka “Life Changing Bread” Recipe
This was inspired by my recent visit to The Southwest Collective when I was visiting my friend back in April 2024. One day that week, her husband took the day off work, to watch their two young kids so we could go out together alone for brunch. I asked if they had a gluten-free bread option to go with my meal. The server said they had “Life Giving Bread” (but now I’m wondering if they had said Life Changing Bread and I heard them wrong). You can watch the short here:...
Aug 17, 2024
Layered Popsicles: Rocket Pops 🚀 & Watermelon Popsicles 🍉
It's summer, so we're making some fun & refreshing popsicles you'll be happy to share with your kids. Both are fruit-based, dairy-free & have no refined sugars. ==================================== YouTube Video**: https://youtu.be/CPOZ6wpakOg 🚀 Rocket/Bomb Pops ❤️🤍💙 Here's a healthier, refined-sugar free version of the layered bomb pops from our childhood. When I was a kid, our neighbourhood had Dickie Dee ice cream carts that would bike around in the summer, ringing a bi
Aug 17, 2024
No Churn Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream with Choc. Hazelnut Swirl | No Ice Cream Machine
Here’s a delicious yet easy dairy-free/vegan no churn ice cream recipe you can make at home. NO special equipment needed. You COULD even mix this by hand with a whisk if you don’t have a hand mixer. It's based on the dairy-based no-churn recipes that use full fat whipping cream, combined with sweetened condensed milk to make a fluffy ice cream base. We swapped out many of the ingredients & amounts to make it df/v/paleo, used a flavour combo inspired from Nick DiGiovanni’s Kni
Aug 17, 2024
Snickers PB Froyo Bites | High Protein Healthy Treat
Peanut butter Reese's frozen yogurt bites were amazing! So we're trying it with a date layer for caramel/snickers vibes!! Super easy, and a healthier dessert/sweet treat for the summer. YouTube Short here: https://youtube.com/shorts/jvYIRFRrmck?feature=share Recipe: 1 cup yogurt of choice (if you go with plant based yogurt: the thicker the better, for a less icy consistency when frozen) 1/4 cup peanut butter powder (you can totally sub for regular PB or another nut butter her
Aug 17, 2024
UPDATED Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
So it's that time of year again! Lol! Anyone that knows anyone with zucchini plants are now being given all their extra zucchini. We didn't get our seeds planted early enough this year, so I thought we were going to miss out, but a friend of a friend, has been giving us BAGS of them (so many I brought some to my parents' house). Here's one of our favourite ways to use zucchini which dates back to my grandparents baking us zucchini bread when I was a kid. My mom told me last w
Aug 17, 2024
Rocky Road Fudge (or make 2-ingredient fudge & add your own mix-ins!!)
Decadent | Dairy-free | Vegan | Refined Sugar-Free This fudge is decadent, and super easy to make! No cook, & no thermometer needed! BASIC 2-INGREDIENT FUDGE: -1 cup sweetened condensed milk (see note below**; we used our homemade coconut-sugar-sweetened condensed milk here) -1 cup semi-sweet or dark choc chips (we used vegan coconut-sugar sweetened chips here from Healthy Crunch) Steps: Melt in microwave in 30s bursts until smooth, stirring each time Pour into lined loaf pan
Aug 16, 2024
2-Ingredient DF/V Sweetened Condensed Milk & Bonus 2-Ingredient Fudge Recipe
Do you ever find a recipe you want to make but it calls for sweetened condensed milk? Now you can make your own dairy-free/vegan version, and choose whichever sugar/sweetener you like!! It's a super easy 2-ingredient recipe (and saves you buying that $12 can of vegan condensed milk from the store). 🥛🍶🥄 Ingredients: -1 can (1 3/4c) full fat coconut/df milk -2/3c choice of sugar Steps: 1. Combine & stir to dissolve sugar. 2. Heat & let simmer for 20-40 minutes until thicker
Jul 27, 2024
Frozen yogurt bites with raspberry & pistachio!
These choc. dipped yogurt bites have been going viral lately, and for good reason: they're super easy to make, totally customizable, and pretty healthy too. Here's how we made these ones: Ingredients: 1 cups plain greek yogurt or plant based yogurt 1/2 cup frozen raspberries (since they’re frozen, they speed the freezing process!!) 1tbsp honey (swap for your fav sweetener instead, or leave out if you use sweetened yogurt) 2tbsp crushed pistachios, plus more for sprinkling 1.5
Jul 4, 2024
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