The Role Of Granulated Sugar In Baking And What This Means For Healthified Recipes
When I immersed myself in the world of wellness, I didn’t give up my love of baking, I simply found ways to upgrade ingredients to make sweet treats on the…
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Baking With Bananas Cheat Sheet
Baking with bananas not only yield delicious breads, muffins, and cookies, but they offer a nutritious way to add moisture, volume and flavor while decreasing added sugar content. But did…
Apple Spice Donuts {Gluten-free, Vegan}
Donuts can be a hard thing to Healthify. First of all, I don’t want to assume people have a donut pan. Not everyone does. I have been a baker for…
Empower Bar Cacao Grain-Free Fudge Muffins
After nailing down my grain-free chocolate fudge muffin recipe, I wanted to take my Gratisfied Empower Bar Cacao baking mix for a drive to see what it could do. Baking…
Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies With Allulose
Many cookie recipes call for a combination of granulated white sugar and granulated brown sugar. So I thought: when Healthifying a cookie recipe, why not pair coconut sugar with another…
Chocolate Fudge Muffins With Pumpkin {Grain-free, Dairy-free}
I love using fruit and vegetable purees in my recipes, and with pumpkin having its seasonal moment, I thought why not incorporate the ingredient into something chocolate? Sure, it might…
Fruit And Vegetable Purées In Baking
I remember the first time I used mashed banana in a recipe. I was in college and on a nutrition kick, but I still loved to bake. I read about…
What Is Xanthan Gum And Is It Good For You?
When it comes to baking gluten-free, there are some baking mixes on the market that make the process easier and convenient. Baking is a science after all, so might as…
Nostalgia Chocolate Chip Banana Bread {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}
There are many reasons why I wrote this recipe the way that I did. I had a craving for some old-fashioned banana bread, but given I refrain from eating gluten,…
Which Leavening Agents Should You Use In These Gluten-Free Vegan Pumpkin Muffins? Here Is What I Suggest.
It’s that time of year, and you might not need another pumpkin muffin recipe. There are a lot of them out there. Even though I have a few that I…
Using Leavening Agents And Acidity In Gluten-Free Vegan Baking
I feel like I start many posts with “when I was writing my cookbook…” but it surely was a springboard to so much of the subject matter I post about…
What You Need To Know About Working With Gluten-Free And Grain-Free Flours
Have you ever tried to translate a traditional baking recipe to yield a healthier result, only to realize that when you pulled your muffins, cookies, cake (whatever it may be)…
Oil vs. Butter, Refrigeration as a Natural Binder, and Grain-Free Snickerdoodle Cookies Two Ways
By Sara McGlothlin It wasn’t until adulthood when I had my first real snickerdoodle. Before that, I had only had the store-bought version, and those just don’t hold a candle…
Reasons To Bake With More Blood Sugar Balance, Upgraded Ingredients, & My Story
By Sara McGlothlin To be a baker is to be a storyteller. There are various layers of the story you are attempting to spin. There is the actual experience for…
The Importance of Chilling the Dough in Grain-Free Baking
By Sara McGlothlin In grain-free baking, you must incorporate other ingredients and action steps to make up for the absence of gluten. What purpose does gluten serve in traditional baking?…
Grain-Free Chocolate Chunk Cookies
By Sara McGlothlin I have been baking gluten- and grain-free for a very long time, and I still feel as though I have yet to master a Healthified Chocolate Chip…