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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

✨🍫Brownie Baked Oats (+ an almond flour swap!!) #FallIntoShorts Day 12

Don’t like the texture of overnight oats? Try blended baked oats instead! They taste like a brownie! You simply combine everything in a blender, then bake it for a cozy, easy, chocolatey breakfast. And I’ll tell you a secret - I also tried it swapping out the oats for almond flour & I thought it was EVEN yummier!! It’s almost like eating cake for breakfast. Double Chocolate Baked Oats INGREDIENTS ►1/2 cup (52g) rolled oats or 52g oat flour** (see below for swap) ►2 tbsp cocoa

Oct 27

🍮 Caramel Biscoff Cheesecake (without biscoff cookies!!) No-Bake & Vegan #FallIntoShorts Day 11

This gluten-free, dairy-free/vegan cheesecake tastes like a cozy latte and a biscoff cookie had a baby ☕🍪 AND you don’t need to find a gluten-free biscoff cookie substitute to make this. We have all the biscoff spices to give you that cozy flavour without them. BUT if you feel like making some biscoff cookies to add some decoration/cookie crumbs on top feel free to make your own cookies with our biscoff cookie recipe here: https://youtu.be/7s4nKDTcgsM?si=BPj6Zr-V-AxjJK-6 Mak

Oct 26

🍂🍏Easy 4-Ingredient 5 Minute Caramel Sauce #FallIntoShorts Day 10

You are 4 ingredients & 5 minutes away from a vegan, no cook refined-sugar-free, homemade date-caramel sauce perfect for dipping apples or building that viral caramel apple cup! INGREDIENTS: 1 cup (about 200g) soft medjool dates, pitted* 1/2 cup milk of choice (I am using unsweetened cashew milk) 1 tbsp vanilla 1/2 tsp sea salt *if your dates are not super soft already, soak in hot water for 15 minutes, then drain, before blending your caramel sauce. INSTRUCTIONS: -combine in

Oct 25

✨🍂 Pumpkin Spiced Churros | GF, V, paleo #FallIntoShorts Day 9

What says fall more than warm fried dough, tossed in pumpkin spiced sugar, dipped in a warm chocolate sauce? So let’s make some pumpkin-spiced churros!! INGREDIENTS Churros: ►1/2 cup almond flour ►1/4 cup tapioca flour ►Pinch of sea salt ►1/2 cup water ►2 tbsp coconut sugar/brown sweetener ►1 tbsp coconut oil Pumpkin Spice Coating: ►1/4 cup coconut sugar/brown sweetener ►1 tsp pumpkin pie spice Chocolate dipping sauce: ►1/4c chocolate of choice (vegan, dark choc, rsf, sf, etc

Oct 25

✨🎃 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

🍏Date-Caramel Apples | no cook & refined sugar free #FallIntoShorts Day 6

Juicy crunchy Granny Smith apple coated in a layer of ooey-gooey smooth date-caramel, dipped in crushed pecan/walnuts & drizzled with dark chocolate - who needs a store-bought caramel apple?!?! Caramel: 1.5 cups (323g or about 18 dates) medjool dates, pitted 1/4 cup (67g) cashew/almond butter (or sub your fav nut/seed butter) 1/4 cup 78g) maple syrup 2 tbsp (32g) coconut oil, melted 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp sea salt Apples: Apples of choice washed and dried (we love a nice sour

Oct 22

🍪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

🥕Carrot Cake Energy Balls #FallIntoShorts Day 4

Gluten-free | Dairy-free | Refined sugar-free | No-bake Makes: 12-14 energy balls Ingredients 1 medium carrot/80g of baby carrots ¾ cup walnuts/pecans, or a mix 5 large (about 73g) soft medjool dates, pitted ¼ cup unsweetened/desiccated coconut ½ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp ginger pinch of nutmeg pinch of sea salt ½ tsp vanilla 2–3 tbsp of your choice to bind & adjust texture: oats (for chewy texture) almond flour (for a rich, cookie-dough feel) coconut flour (for a firmer, lower-carb

Oct 18

Pumpkin Cinnamon Sugar Donuts | Day 3 of #FallIntoShorts

It's day 3 of our new Fall Into Shorts series, and today we're making pumpkin spice donuts, covered in an irrisistable pumpkin spice-coconut sugar coating. You also follow along with our step-by-step video here: https://youtu.be/ZVlVkmj5Qzo Makes 8-10 donuts Ingredients: 2/3 cup pumpkin puree 1/3 cup maple syrup/liquid sweetener of choice 1/4 cup olive oil/avocado oil/melted coconut oil 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar 2 tsp vanilla 1 1/2 cups almond flour 2/3 cup tapioca/arrowroot

Oct 16

Chocolate Date Caramels #FallIntoShorts Day 2

With these ooey-gooey date-based caramels, dipped in dark chocolate, with a sprinkle of flakey sea salt - who needs store-bought Halloween candy?!?! Caramels: 1.5 cups (323g or about 18 dates) medjool dates, pitted 1/4 cup (67g) cashew/almond butter (or sub your fav nut/seed butter) 1/4 cup 78g) maple syrup 2 tbsp (32g) coconut oil, melted 1 tsp vanilla 1/4 tsp sea salt Chocolate coating: 200g dark chocolate of choice 1 tsp coconut oil Optional topping: Flakey sea salt -Combi

Oct 16

🍊🍫🍰 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

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

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

Healthy Chocolate Pistachio Tart (keto, gluten free, vegan)

A revamped version of a pistachio tart with green pistachio cream filling, and decadent chocolate ganache, and crushed pistachios and freeze dried raspberry pieces for a colour & flavour pop! BUT it’s also gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, vegan, egg-free, refined sugar free, low sugar & low carb if you make it with sf sweetener and sf chocolate like we did (or sub YOUR fav sweetener & chocolate). This recipe makes a 9” tart, but you can also make several smaller tarts if

Sep 29

Coconut Tortillas & Mango Salsa for Fish Tacos

We made our 3 Ingredient Coconut Tortillas tonight (Vegan, Paleo, GF, Keto, Low Carb) as fish tacos with mango salsa 😋 COCONUT-PSYLLIUM TORTILLAS====== https://youtu.be/ihn_hLaqxOk?si=or-jX ... We used a pot lid after rolling them out to cut perfect circles 🙌🏻🌮 Makes: 6 small (54g) wraps/tortillas or 4 larger ones INGREDIENTS -1/2c coconut flour -2 tbsp psyllium husk powder (**ours is purple, see note below) -1 tbsp avocado oil/olive oil/coconut oil, melted -1 cup warm wa

Sep 29

Rainbow Peanut Noodles

But family-style!! My daughter wanted to make rainbow peanut noodles for my birthday dinner, based on a grab-n go noodle bowl we had picked up at Boon Bakery in Owen Sound this past summer. And I think we did a good job recreating it. This is definitely on our “make more often” list now. :) Protein: ► Sliced BBQ or rotisserie chicken (or sub for tofu) Salad: ► vermicelli rice noodles ► frozen edamame beans, boiled ► cucumber, julienned* we used a julienne peeler ► carrot, jul

Sep 29

Lemon Blueberry Marshmallow Ice Cream aka “Moonbeam" Ice Cream - Dairy-Free & Refined Sugar Free

My daughter kept asking to make the “Moonbeam Ice Cream”, from the Benson Boon song “Mystical Magical”, and this week she had to get 4 teeth removed so it was a great time to make her a frozen treat. 🍋🫐🤍 Here’s our dairy-free refined-sugar-free version of the lemon blueberry marshmallow “moonbeam” ice cream: INGREDIENTS ► 3-Ingredient Lemon Ice Cream ► 1 can full fat coconut cream ► zest & juice of 2 medium lemons ► 1/2 cup sweetener of choice (I used organic honey - I

Sep 20

Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream/Popsicles

POV: love my Creami and now it’s PSL season ➡️ 🎃🥧🍨 I couldn’t wait for cozy fall flavours but I’m not ready to pack away my Ninja Creami quite yet… So let’s make pumpkin pie ice cream!! This is basically our deconstructed paleo pumpkin pie in ice cream form. We start with our 2 ingredient coconut date ice cream*, add extra pumpkin pie ingredients, and then crunchy cookie mix-ins to complete the perfect pie vibe. WITHOUT A CREAMI: you do NOT need a ninja creami - you can fo

Sep 16

Brownie Cookies 🍫➡️🍪

If a brownie and a cookie had a baby, this would be it Do you know Claire Saffitz? I totally love her! And was just served her 3yo video on “How To Make Brownies 3 Ways” where she transforms her go-to brownie recipe into a skillet sundae, a brownie cookie, and a decadent cake. So let’s apply her techniques and try turn OUR gf/df brownie recipe into brownie cookies!!! 😍 My Inspo/Claire’s Video: https://youtu.be/cxDroV_k0qI?si=5-x6GJxlak2EmuQP Our Brownie Recipe (Tim Hortons G

Sep 13

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