Blog – Page 12 – Healthified Magazine

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)…

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Oil vs. Butter, Refrigeration as a Natural Binder, and Grain-Free Snickerdoodle Cookies Two Ways

September 3, 2023

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…

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Reasons To Bake With More Blood Sugar Balance, Upgraded Ingredients, & My Story

September 2, 2023

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…

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The Importance of Chilling the Dough in Grain-Free Baking

September 1, 2023

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?…

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Grain-Free Chocolate Chunk Cookies

September 1, 2023

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…

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Interested In Gluten-Free Plant-Based Baking? Here Is What You Need To Know

August 30, 2023

Some of my earliest memories are of assisting my mom in the kitchen, wearing an over-sized apron, cracking eggs and baking cookies. I continued to bake throughout my teens and…

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Pumpkin Banana Chocolate Chip Bread {Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free}

August 29, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin It’s late summer. Labor Day weekend is right around the corner and I’m ready for fall. I can already tell the sun is setting earlier in the…

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Pineapple Pecan Cupcakes {Gluten-Free}

August 26, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin I have a confession to make: when I started writing this recipe, I didn’t intend to make pineapple pecan cupcakes. Have you ever heard of pineapple pecan…

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Gluten-Free Baking Tip: Let the Batter Rest

August 25, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin While I have been baking a long time, it wasn’t until my mid- to late-twenties when I started to play around with upgrading ingredients to make more…

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Cassava Chocolate Chip Cookies

August 22, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin After incorporating the chocolate chips in these cassava cookies, I took a deep inhale and couldn’t help thinking to myself: I think this is the best chocolate…

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Easy Buffalo Cauliflower

August 17, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin Do you know what I love for dinner? Easy, that’s what. I still prefer homemade meals over takeout any day, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be…

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Buckwheat Fig Muffins

August 15, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin In 2016, we planted a couple of fig trees in our backyard. Five years later, they finally started to bear fruit, and now provide us with a…

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Fig Jam

August 15, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin For the longest time, fig jam was just a staple on a charcuterie board. Is there anything better than a buttery cracker topped with a salty sliver…

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Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheesecake

August 13, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin Chocolate + peanut butter…is there anything better? As a matter of fact there is – when you combine the two in a cheesecake. Have I told you…

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Feeling Blocked Or Burnt Out? Here Is How I am Tapping (Back) Into My Creativity.

August 12, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin For the longest time, I had a story that I wasn’t creative. I have since traced this story back to a childhood memory, in which I am…

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Chocolate Mint Smoothie with Cacao Clusters

August 11, 2023

By Sara McGlothlin The body is an amazing machine. When something is off, it sends you signals. You might notice imbalances or issues in what I call the “big five:”…