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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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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


No-Cook Olive Oil Salted Caramel Sauce
So easy, and delicious. This no cook olive oil salted caramel sauce comes together with a bowl and a spoon or fork. Perfect last minute caramel sauce for an ice cream sundae. #easyrecipe #dairyfree #vegan Ingredients: -1/4c "frozen" maple syrup (in the freezer at least 20 minutes beforehand) -1/4c olive oil -pinch of sea salt Steps: -put your maple syrup in the freezer for at least 20 minutes before starting this recipe -combine ingredients in a bowl/container/glass/etc -
Jun 27, 2024


DF/V Grimace Shake || aka a Blueberry Raspberry Vanilla Milkshake
After trying a McDonalds grimace shake recently (on our drive home from Toronto after the Gluten Free Garage), my kids had the WORST stomachache (and I didn't dare touch it), so we thought we'd make our own at home, sans tummy aches (dairy-free/vegan). Grimace shake video: https://youtube.com/shorts/KuDILlqMDiw?feature=share Whipcream recipe video: https://youtu.be/s_N9svqDq8M Here's what we used: 1 cup organic frozen wild blueberries 1/2c organic frozen red raspberries 1/2c
Jun 25, 2024


Easy Strawberry Shortcakes
It’s strawberry season here!! And what better way to enjoy fresh field strawberries than strawberry shortcake with light & fluffy coconut whip cream? Feel free to grab a can of your fav whip cream from the store, or use our recipe to make your own. Ingredients: 1cup+2tbsp almond flour 6tbsp tapioca flour or arrowroot 1/2tsp baking powder 1/4tsp sea salt 1/4cup coconut oil/palm shortening/vegan butter (we used coconut oil) 1/4cup milk of choice (we used unsweetened almond milk
Jun 22, 2024


Paleo "Snickers" Date Bites?
Make these stuffed dates for a super-easy, delicious, paleo, Snickers-like treat. Let me know if you try these with peanuts & PB. I used a pecan, and almond butter, since we're a peanut free facility. They even kinda LOOK like snickers inside too! This is WAY better than the VIRAL TikTok date bark recipe. Even faster, AND easier, BETTER texture, and BETTER ingredient proportions = 100% tastes like a snickers, even without peanuts (we used a pecan, and almond butter). Ingredie
Jun 18, 2024


Mary & Anjee's Oven Baked Falafel Recipe
Last week I flew to Grand Cayman to visit my friend, and she treated me to brunch at the South West Collective (Cafe) on the waterfront in Georgetown, where I ordered “Happy Eggs”, “Life Giving Toast” & Beet Falafel. (I made a YouTube short about it here: https://youtube.com/shorts/fEArBW3fgcI?feature=share ). They were sooooo good it inspired us to make falafel at her house later in the week, not once, but TWICE!! (TBH the first batch wasn’t falafel enough, so we HAD to give
Jun 16, 2024


1-Ingredient Red Lentil Wraps (if you don't count water!)
While visiting my friend last week, she really wanted to make some wraps to go with our dinner. She happened to have red lentils on hand, so this is what we made: Ingredients: 1 cup red lentils, rinsed 2 cups water Directions: Combine lentils & water, and let sit 2-3hours Puree in blender until smooth Cook in oiled pan about 1/3cup to 1/2cup at a time, swirling your pan to get the batter thin (or you can spread it around with a spatula) We found we needed to cook these longer
Jun 15, 2024


Funnel Cake Recipe with Strawberries & Ice Cream | Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Vegan
Strawberry season AND fair season is here!! So let’s make a gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan version of the fair treat: funnel cake! Top it with some fresh field strawberries and a couple scoops of your favourite ice cream for a delicious summer dessert. INGREDIENTS -Oil of your choice, for frying (we like to use organic red palm fruit oil) TOPPING: -Sweetener of your choice, for dusting funnel cake (we used organic cane sugar, powdered in a blender) -Fresh field strawberries &
Jun 12, 2024


Mary-ified Banana Butterscotch Sticky Buns
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/9oQ9kzuH4VI I remember this recipe fondly from my childhood. Warn, pecan-filled banana sticky buns were the BEST. The original recipe was actually in the OG Bisquick Cookbook (do you remember when companies made their own cookbooks - the Robin Hood Flour one was great too!), and it called for just Bisquick and banana to make the dough. How easy is that? But, here we’ve gluten-free-dairy-free-ified it. And is actually vegan too (depending
May 23, 2024


“Best Banana Coffee Cake” (Mary-ified!)
Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/9oQ9kzuH4VI INGREDIENTS -1/2c shortening/coconut oil/vegan butter, softened -3/4c coconut sugar -1 3/4c flour (we used Ardent Mills gluten free flour blend, new to our Costco) -2tsp baking powder (we used our home-made corn-free baking powder - 2 parts cream of tartar, 1 part baking soda) -1/2tsp sea salt -1/2tsp cinnamon -pinch nutmeg (because it’s high eugenol content adds a deeper banana flavour!) -1/4tsp baking soda -2 beaten eggs -2
May 23, 2024
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