Help! I am a bakeoholic

Healthier baking recipes?

60 calorie blueberry muffins:

Serves 19
Calories: 60/muffin

Ingredients
1 cup steel cut oats (soak in water at least 6 hours prior)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
1 teaspoon gluten free baking soda
1 tablespoon powdered stevia
2 eggs
1 cup unsweetened applesauce (I used TreeTop's Original)
¼ cup butter, melted (I used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - Light)
¾ Almond Milk (I used Unsweetened Original)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries (I used frozen)
optional: chopped nuts

Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a bowl stir together the oats, flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and powder, stevia.
Pour in the eggs, applesauce, butter, milk, and vanilla.
Stir well.
Gently mix in the blueberries.
Evenly pour the batter into silicone cupcake liners or regular liners. You will need to spray with cooking oil and dust with flour after spray to prevent sticking.
Add some chopped nuts if desired.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean. Mine were perfect at 25 min.

I am a very keen (and rather fabulous) baker if I don't say so myself!
this week alone I baked chocolate orange muffins (using olive oil and orange oil), blueberry and white chocolate muffins and a biscuity fudgey tray bake that's an old Scottish recipe.
Needless to say, I allow myself one bite of husbands portion and the rest he takes in to his office. He works in a massive shared office so everything gets eaten up really fast.
Also I freeze a few for later dates such as visiting friends or family.
Don't give up your baking, for me it's so relaxing and I love making others happy with my baked goods!

I’m a huge baker too. Some things do freeze pretty well so you can save some for later. Sharing with other people is what works best for me. I’ll bake something up if I’m having people over, or if I’m going out to somebody else’s house. I’ll ask my guests if they would like to take some of the baked goods home for later, and they usually always say yes, so I can burn through a whole cake in an evening pretty easily. I've actually invited people over for breakfast just so I could make croissants.

Healthier baking recipes?

60 calorie blueberry muffins:

Serves 19
Calories: 60/muffin

Ingredients
1 cup steel cut oats (soak in water at least 6 hours prior)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon gluten free baking powder
1 teaspoon gluten free baking soda
1 tablespoon powdered stevia
2 eggs
1 cup unsweetened applesauce (I used TreeTop's Original)
¼ cup butter, melted (I used I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - Light)
¾ Almond Milk (I used Unsweetened Original)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup frozen or fresh blueberries (I used frozen)
optional: chopped nuts

Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a bowl stir together the oats, flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and powder, stevia.
Pour in the eggs, applesauce, butter, milk, and vanilla.
Stir well.
Gently mix in the blueberries.
Evenly pour the batter into silicone cupcake liners or regular liners. You will need to spray with cooking oil and dust with flour after spray to prevent sticking.
Add some chopped nuts if desired.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean. Mine were perfect at 25 min.

I'm curious...why gluten free baking powder and soda? You've got whole wheat flour in the recipe.

I am also a bakeoholic. In the past few days, I've baked bread, pumpkin rolls, cookies, and banana nut bread. Tomorrow, I plan on baking a cheesecake. I manage to fit a lot of delicious baked goods into my calorie goal, but I tend to end up with a lot I can't consume myself. I do find it helps, as other posters have suggested, to freeze things or give them away. Or if need be, you can modify a recipe to reduce it's calories, bake a smaller batch or simply try to bake less. But I know how difficult that last one can be. When you feel the overwhelming desire to bake, it is a call you must heed.

I am too..I havent baked since I started in March. My poor kitchenaid looks longingly at me and sighs.

I know people who continue to bake, but they give their foods to their family & friends to enjoy! Afterall, isn't that a lot of the joy of baking?

I like to bake.

For quite a long time, I just couldn't. There was no way I would be able to make it without trying some cookie dough or having a piece of cake.

Now, I can bake for others, frost cakes, sprinkle sugar on the Hershey Kiss cookies, all of it. It took me a while to get there, though. Time, patience, determination.

I love trying new recipes with healthy ingredients. I really like cookies or mini cupcakes/muffins since they are portion controlled. I also like to make extra cookie dough and freeze it. If I really want a treat I have to take it out (in small portions)and bake it. It keeps me from just eating a whole plate full of cookie.

Try making half recipes, bringing some to work, or mailing it to me.

I love baking too! That, and running, keep me from killing people LOL

I went and bought a mini-muffin pan, and have been using my favorite cake recipes for mini-cupcakes. I use all the full-fat, full-flavor, full-calorie ingredients I always do, but when divided into mini cupcakes, even after frosting them, they come out to 69 calories each.

With a full cupcake, or a slice of cake ,you don't generally just take a few bites and walk away, but with a mini-cupcake, it's really easy to keep your portions under control.

I've also been baking much smaller cookies now, too! My kids have some "play" cookie cutters (smaller than "real" cookie cutters), that are actually functional, so I've been baking mini-cookies.

You could bake and deliver to local shelters.