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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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I finally got myself a freezer dryer
- it’s been on my wish list for a while now, to make my own freeze dried fruit for the bakery. BUT it comes with other fun benefits!! If you have food restrictions like me, you’ve probably been left out of the fun freeze dried candy trend. Until NOW. I freeze dried some Dandies marshmallows (which may be my favourite thing we’ve run in the machine so far!!) they turn out addictively crunchy & so good. I packed some into bags if you want to try some too. I current have a test
May 8
We made Billie Eilish’s gf/v Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookie
Did you know that Billie Eilish shared her PB cookie recipe on TikTok?!? and it’s gluten-free, dairy-free, & vegan!! I made these famous cookies with my kids last night and they were soooo ooey gooey GOOD!! (and super kid friendly for them to help/make). Ingredients: 1 cup brown sugar (we switched it to coconut sugar) 1 cup peanut butter 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 cup oat flour (blend 1c oats in blender/nutribullet) 1 tsp baking soda 1/8 tsp salt 1/4 cup almond milk chocolate ch
Jan 6
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Spice Oreos | DIY Recipe
Now that Nabisco makes gluten-free Golden Oreos, we can make our own Very-Limited Edition GF Pumpkin Spice Oreos. They just add "artificial flavours" and "paprika oleoresin" (for colour), so why can't we? And if you don't have pumpkin spice, we have a recipe for you below. Steps: -gently open your oreos -using a knife scrape the icing into a bowl -add some pumpkin pie spice (and food colour if desired) -mix, then re-ice your oreos. I find the easiest way is to use the back of
Jan 4
Unboxing: Sweet Loren’s Ready to Bake GF/V Cookie Dough
Sweet Loren’s Ready to Bake Cookie Dough, Taste Test (Gluten-Free & Vegan, Dairy-Free, Egg-free) Come along with us to unbox the cookies, bake some, and turn some into ice cream Sammies: https://youtu.be/rd13RRjTwm0 🇺🇸Available at Meijer Detroit for $6.99USD in 3 flavours: ➡︎Sugar Cookie ➡︎Chocolate Chunk ➡︎Salted Caramel Chocolate Or check out all 11 flavours on their website: https://sweetlorens.com 🇨🇦UPDATE: In looking up Sweet Loren’s after recording it seems like the
Nov 18, 2025
We found MINT & GOLDEN gluten-free Oreos!
We found more gluten-free oreo cookies to try!! Golden (Glutino & Oreos) Mint Oreo Joe Joe’s (Trader Joes) Double Stuff Oreo The Joe Joe's were kindly brought to us by our American friends 🥰 and we found the rest on our recent trip to the USA. Come along to unbox them and see what we thought: https://youtu.be/lhkq963Aj4g Other Hauls/Unboxings you may like: August 2024 🇺🇸 HAUL https://youtu.be/pYLOJK2d0-0?si=oxq6qUNMWl0RgPBT Regular gf Oreos: https://youtu.be/lZGJ02CUuOE Ch
Nov 18, 2025
NEW Gluten-Free Chips Ahoy!?! Are they as good as the OG?
So excited to try the NEW gluten-free Chips Ahoy cookies!! Totally LOVE that big brands are now coming out with gf dupes of their OG products. I test my kids in a blind taste test to see if they can tell the difference before I try them too. See if they can tell!! Are they as good a dupe as Oreo's gluten-free?? Watch our unboxing & find out: https://youtu.be/5Z-dS53YMuQ If you want to see what else we got on our shopping trip to the USA: https://youtu.be/pYLOJK2d0-0 Previous
Nov 18, 2025
Trying Nowhere Bakery: Gluten-Free, Paleo & Vegan | California, USA
California-based Nowhere Bakery: 100% gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, dairy-free, refined-sugar-free, processed-oil-free, and also vegan. Perfect if you have non-nut food allergies/restrictions and live in the USA (they deliver to continental USA). But we live in a "border town" and have wonderful friends across the river that let me order to. :) Watch our unboxing/taste test and our thoughts: https://youtu.be/UkFYrFeFcB4 Cookie 1: The Choc Chip Cookie 2: The Tag Cookie 3:
Nov 18, 2025
GF Oreo blind taste test! Can we tell them apart?!
I was trying to find the new gf Chips Ahoy choc chip cookies, and stumbled on these instead. Did you know Nabisco made gluten-free oreos?!?! I didn't. But they are stocked with all the regular oreos, so I don't normally check that aisle. Have I been living in a hole, and missing out??!? Anywho, we grabbed some. As well as the regular ones, and the OG of gluten-free sandwich cookies: the Glutino brand, to see which we liked better, and to see how well Nabisco did formulating t
Nov 18, 2025
🍫🌱We tried every plant based chocolate bar at Walmart 🇨🇦 Which was the best? 🤭
I went to Walmart to buy a chocolate bar to melt in the sun & dip strawberries in with the kids and I was surprised to find quite a few new plant based chocolate bars. So I ended up grabbing one of each for us to taste test & review at home! Some use almond paste instead of milk ingredients, some use oat and rice. See which we liked best, and recommend. :) Watch our unboxing/review here: https://youtu.be/kda13noVMCA Taste testing: Lindt Vegan Creamy Lindt Vegan Salted Caramel
Nov 18, 2025
NEW gf/df Mary's Gone Crackers products we HAD to try
May 21, 24 - We just spotted some new Mary's products (you know the round seed crackers???) at a grocery store on the way to the beach, and had to try them: Real Thin Crackers: Sea Salt Real Thin Cracker: Garlic & Rosemary Kookies: Honey Kookies: Chocolate Come see what we thought: https://youtu.be/SX27brM6kqw?si=ULfpSYHap6qACAbk ================================= Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marysmindfulbakes/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@marysmindfulbakes YouTube...
Nov 18, 2025
Trying Levain's NEW GF/V Choc Chip Walnut NYC Cookies! #NYC #glutenfree #vegan
We tried the "regular" Levain cookies a few months ago. You can watch that video here: https://youtu.be/dhQD-On5_pI But this time we wanted to try their gluten-free & vegan NYC Cookie (since I try my best to be gf/df). The website warns that they're crumbly... and they totally are... but watch to the end to see what we think. https://youtu.be/FC1LL_42UmU?si=jT3R-e7CBVxWzdFh Ingredients of their "Vegan & GF Chocolate Chip Walnut": Plant based butter (made from cashews, almond
Nov 18, 2025
Trying Max Mallows | Keto Sugar-Free Marshmallows
We recently grabbed some new goodies to try from a Detroit Meijer including these keto/sugar-free marshmallows (with MCT Oil & collagen) that my kids wanted to try, and they have some fun/unique flavours too. Regular price was $5.89 USD for 12 marshmallows Sale price was $4.99 Watch us inbox and taste test these marshmallows with my kids - are they any good? https://youtu.be/QGA0FjXdXm8 #keto #lowcarb #zerosugar #sugarfree #marshmallow #caramel #birthdaycake #mctoil #collagen
Nov 17, 2025
🦕We Tried Dino Buddies Gluten-Free Chicken Nuggets
We found some dinosaur shaped gluten-free chicken nuggets on our last shopping trip in Detroit Meijer 🇺🇸 Watch our unboxing/taste test video with my kids, and see what we thought of them: https://youtu.be/hyyQmO_1Z4Q ================================= Instagram https://www.instagram.com/marysmindfulbakes/ TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@marysmindfulbakes YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@marysmindfulbakes Fav Products* 🇨🇦 https://www.amazon.ca/shop/mindfulbakehouse Fav Produ
Nov 17, 2025
Feel Good Foods find!! 🏆🥇
I don’t know how I’ve never seen these before!! (We don’t have them near me in Canada 🇨🇦) and turns out I’m even following these guys on instagram?!? But I randomly came across them at local grocery store chain while visiting a friend on vacation in another country. 🌎✈️ They had 4 Feel Good Foods products (pork/veg/ckn potstickers and pizza bites) and I grabbed the chicken potstickers & the pizza bites. Watch us cook & taste test them here: (or keep reading below)...
Jan 31, 2025
Cheers to our new blog!
We're starting a blog! Where you can read about things we love, what we're up to or thinking about, and who knows what else. Stay tuned.
Oct 21, 2021
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