Baking - Healthy treats that taste good to non-dieters!

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  • randomsue
    randomsue Posts: 179 Member
    Are you married to the idea of baking something? Something fun that I do is a chocolate fountain with the dippers. Plenty of fruit, rice crispy treats (gluten free btw) and other yummies that I think wouldn't contaminate that chocolate. (I'm allergic to wheat) An ice cream bar is something else that I do, with toppings, fresh cut fruit, and crushed oreos (vegan btw), and 1 other non gluten topping. It's easy, everyone can choose what they want and it's always a hit.

    One thing that I always remember is that people appreciate homemade. Use good ingredients and your homemade dessert will be healthier than any storebought thing. Going paleo on your desserts might eliminate some of the allergens that can be an issue. Flourless brownies, cobblers with a gf streusel topping, a beautiful trifle could be some options.
  • AylaStryder
    AylaStryder Posts: 24 Member
    randomsue wrote: »
    Are you married to the idea of baking something? Something fun that I do is a chocolate fountain with the dippers. Plenty of fruit, rice crispy treats (gluten free btw) and other yummies that I think wouldn't contaminate that chocolate. (I'm allergic to wheat) An ice cream bar is something else that I do, with toppings, fresh cut fruit, and crushed oreos (vegan btw), and 1 other non gluten topping. It's easy, everyone can choose what they want and it's always a hit.

    One thing that I always remember is that people appreciate homemade. Use good ingredients and your homemade dessert will be healthier than any storebought thing. Going paleo on your desserts might eliminate some of the allergens that can be an issue. Flourless brownies, cobblers with a gf streusel topping, a beautiful trifle could be some options.

    I'm responsible for the homebaking and people enjoy it, I find it therapeutic as well. I've made a earl grey lemon raw & vegan cheesecake before, Its not excatly something I can get out of now as it always goes down well and a good bit of revenue is raised from it, Thank you for your suggestions, I never thought about brownies or cobbler :) I'll look into paleo recipes as well :)
  • lucys1225
    lucys1225 Posts: 597 Member
    These are both definitely not low in calories but are full of healthy ingredients...and they're delicious.

    http://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/

    http://detoxinista.com/2014/07/the-healthiest-cookies-ever-paleo-vegan/
  • catt952
    catt952 Posts: 190 Member
    AylaStryder wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has any healthy baking recipes that doesnt have the amount of junk in in standard homemade cakes? I do a lot of baking normall for events but would like to add a dietary health option of somesort thats as unprocessed as possible that doesnt limit me to just making flap jacks. Any ideas?

    you could make some sort of oatmeal cookie with banana and rasins
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    lucys1225 wrote: »
    These are both definitely not low in calories but are full of healthy ingredients...and they're delicious.

    http://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/

    http://detoxinista.com/2014/07/the-healthiest-cookies-ever-paleo-vegan/

    What's not healthy about the ingredients in a regular cookie?
  • lucys1225
    lucys1225 Posts: 597 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    lucys1225 wrote: »
    These are both definitely not low in calories but are full of healthy ingredients...and they're delicious.

    http://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/

    http://detoxinista.com/2014/07/the-healthiest-cookies-ever-paleo-vegan/

    What's not healthy about the ingredients in a regular cookie?

    For ME, quite a lot of ingredients. As we all know, everyone has different ideas of what it healthy. And, I believe, if she wanted recipes for "regular" cookies, she would have asked for that.
  • AylaStryder
    AylaStryder Posts: 24 Member
    lucys1225 wrote: »
    These are both definitely not low in calories but are full of healthy ingredients...and they're delicious.

    http://www.allergyfreealaska.com/2012/12/06/guilt-free-pecan-pie-cookies/

    http://detoxinista.com/2014/07/the-healthiest-cookies-ever-paleo-vegan/

    Thank you :)
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    I just choose the recipes that I think look nice and then swap out ingredients.
    I don't buy white flour so I swap that for wholemeal spelt flour for 75% of the weight and add ground flax seed for the other 25% of it.
    I swap the sugar out for xylitol or agave nectar as we always have those in.
    I use coconut oil or hemp oil in the place of butter as I rarely have butter in the house. You can also use apple sauce but I always seem to forget this until after I've baked lol.

    You've made me want a baking day now :)

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