I like to Bake

ZeeShay

So during the holidays I love to bake. And I make tons of stuff... Cookies, Cakes, Pies and anything else I find yummy. Any other fellow bakers out there??? any healthy alternatives or recipes???

fldiver97

So during the holidays I love to bake. And I make tons of stuff... Cookies, Cakes, Pies and anything else I find yummy. Any other fellow bakers out there??? any healthy alternatives or recipes???

I wish I'd be good at baking cakes, pies and cookies. I can cook some but am still a bit domestically impaired when it comes to baking :ohwell: You should be able to find some good recipes though in the 'recipe section', folks seem to come up with all kinds of good ideas here

AllTehBeers

I love making pie during the holidays, apple and pumpkin for sure. I don't have any healthy alternatives though, I go all out for decadent dessert with full fat ice cream or whipped cream.

ZeeShay

Thanks! I bake well but i cant really cook much... just basic things like eggs spagetti and pancakes haha

ZeeShay

I love making pie during the holidays, apple and pumpkin for sure. I don't have any healthy alternatives though, I go all out for decadent dessert with full fat ice cream or whipped cream.

Yeah my stuff is definitely high cal hahah but its soo good, but im trying not to sabotage myself or my family. hahaha

SPNLuver83

I love to bake!!

You can healthify just about any recipe by replacing the white flour with wheat, sugar for stevia, oil and/or butter for applesauce/smashed banana/pumpkin puree, milk chocolate for dark chocolate... Makes a big difference!

jmariscal3

The way that I found new recipes is going to google and typing in my favorite foods. I put "clean eating" i front of them all and came up with great new receipes! Hope that helps.

katcunock

nutella banana bread! if you want the recipe PM me

ZeeShay

I love to bake!!

You can healthify just about any recipe by replacing the white flour with wheat, sugar for stevia, oil and/or butter for applesauce/smashed banana/pumpkin puree, milk chocolate for dark chocolate... Makes a big difference!

Awesome thanks!! :]

caseyjade88

Try substituting your sugar with Agave. It tastes just as amazing and you don't have that weird taste that most sugar substitutes have...plus it's natural!

jmariscal3

The Naked Kitchen web page also has great info!

ZeeShay

The way that I found new recipes is going to google and typing in my favorite foods. I put "clean eating" i front of them all and came up with great new receipes! Hope that helps.

Awesome thanks for the tip!!

ZeeShay

Try substituting your sugar with Agave. It tastes just as amazing and you don't have that weird taste that most sugar substitutes have...plus it's natural!

never heard of that, I will look in to it! thanks :]

ZeeShay

nutella banana bread! if you want the recipe PM me

Thanks sounds great!!!!!

LeighAnna115

This is such a hard part of the holidays. I LOVE baking, my great grandmother taught me and because of her wisdom I can actually bake well. During the holiday season people are always asking me to make their favorites for them, it's so hard not to sample! I intentionally make lots of peanut butter based cookies and desserts because its a common favorite ingredient and I despise peanut butter!! Yuck!!!

marycmeadows

I have been making tons of yummy goodies.... I have a blog - marysforkandspoon.blogspot.com - would love for any other fellow bakers to friend me!!

ZeeShay

This is such a hard part of the holidays. I LOVE baking, my great grandmother taught me and because of her wisdom I can actually bake well. During the holiday season people are always asking me to make their favorites for them, it's so hard not to sample! I intentionally make lots of peanut butter based cookies and desserts because its a common favorite ingredient and I despise peanut butter!! Yuck!!!

thats quite smart! lol so you wont be tempted... too bad my family and friends love chocolate almost as much as i do hahaha. Thats awesome that your great grandmother taught you!

ZeeShay

I have been making tons of yummy goodies.... I have a blog - marysforkandspoon.blogspot.com - would love for any other fellow bakers to friend me!!

nice site, definitely saving it to my favorites!

hellonheels88

I bake a *kitten* ton.....and then I take it in to work and force it on my coworkers :devil: :bigsmile:

jgsparks89

I also love my holiday baking, and it's just not the same if I don't use my family favorite recipes that include full-flavor EVERYTHING. But, to combat the desire to over indulge, I bake, enjoy and then give the rest to family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, the local firefighters, my son's Kindergarten class. etc. That way, I get to do my baking, have a treat, and feel good about spreading some joy around too.

Edit: I bake every Sunday fro Thanksgiving til New Years...so I plan ahead and make room for a treat each Sunday. One cookie won't kill your diet, but 20 might. So yeah, plan ahead, adjust, enjoy!

FrancesGallagher

I do quite a bit of baking and I would miss not having something "home-baked". As already suggested there are ways to cut calories and make the baked things more healthy. The sugar in most recipes can be reduced without affecting the taste. I use 1/2 cup of sugar (or less) in nine inch Blueberry, pumpkin or apple pies. (recipes usually call for a cup of sugar). Quick breads do not need all the sugar stated in those recipes, neither do muffins. Also watch for too much shortening, most do fine with Canola oil. If you like soft cookies the canola oil works well and if the recipe has l cup of chocolate chips, 1/3 cup will still give an interesting cookie, adding oatmeal (uncooked) with the same amount of flour works, and the flour can be different blends of whole wheat and white. Mostly it is trying some different ways to get something good and not overly calorie laden so you can feel good about eating it yourself or giving it to your family. Hood lite vanilla ice cream goes well with blueberry or apple pie, 1/2 cup is about 110 calories. It isn't that you need treats everyday but if you watch the calories you can have "home cooked" good food.

beattie1

I love to bake too, but I've managed to change to making soup instead. The peeling and chopping of all the veg, sweating them gently in a pan and adding more things (pulses, chopped bacon) is therapeutic and the results are much healthier.

BTW Agave is just a syrup like ordinary golden syrup, maple syrup or honey. Sugar is sugar is sugar. Agave is just an expensive way of adding sugar.

LindaSueBakk

Check out skinnytaste.com.

uteeckstein

I just signed up on here and baking was my biggest concern also. I love to bake and make candy. I am worried about gaining weight during the holidays. Maybe we can exchange some good recipes and encourage each other.

mgobluetx12

Check out www.skinnytaste.com Lots of great low cal and super tasty recipes for cakes, cupcakes and other desserts.


Darn, I just saw someone else posted this before. me. Well, I 2nd the idea.

RobynC79

I love baking too - I live on my own and I go through at least one cake and one batch of cookies per week. I've never bothered trying to make things 'healthier' by substituting artificial ingredients. I just bake, eat a little per day, and enjoy! I just took a batch of shortbread out of the over for Melting Moments biscuits (an aussie favorite). I think I ate about half a cup of the dough too.

My cooking motto - Life's too short for sucralose and eggwhites! Make good food from real ingredients and enjoy it.

XXXMinnieXXX

Look up Nancy Clarke banana bread on here. Healthy and super yummy. You can add anything you like too really x

XXXMinnieXXX

Chocolatecoveredkate has some great recipes and single serving ones too x

jesusislove1526

I love to bake also, especially during the winter months. I have been kind of apprehensive about doing it this year because I am on this journey now, so I will be on the lookout for healthier alternatives.

Nurturegirl

Hi

I've just got in to baking again with my children. We made a Victoria sandwich during the week and a chocolate tiffin today and during the week I hope to make homemade pizza and next weekend flapjacks. Apart from pizza, the other choices are definitely high fat and sugar but I am trying to teach my children that a moderate amount in an otherwise well balanced diet is ok, rather than eliminating food groups. I have allowed myself small amount of the cake and tiffin but definitely counted this on MFP!

ncbill

If you have strong will power bake whatever you like;

However if you're like me and would snack at night and grab a cookie when walking by, maybe another one because the first was so good...

then,

Leave out the sugar and and flour I like banana bread but I had to give that up, and pumpkin bread. I bought sub rolls for my son this weekend and ate one today and think I should throw them out but I hate to be wasteful. But I hate being overweight too...And personally for me I'd eat everything baked at night.

I'm not trying to be a jerk with my reply... it's only based on my lack of will power. It's easier to resist what's not in front of you