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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…