Top Tips For Healthy And Delicious Home Baking

Here are some ingredients and substitutions you can make to create delicious baked goods that are also healthy.

Oh, the weather outside is (still) frightful, but these homemade treats are so delightful! Crank up the heat (on your oven) for these tasty baked goods using healthy ingredients.

Garbanzo Bean Spread - Banzo Butter

Banzo Butter is the newest plant-based healthy spread for just about anything, from bagels, breads and overnight oats to cookies, crackers and rice cakes. Banzo Butter spreads offer a unique take on classic nut butter, with a taste and texture similar to your favorite nut butters, but made from beans. In addition to healthy fats, plant-based protein and fiber, Banzo Butter spreads are vegan, gluten-free, and top-14 allergen-free.

Vanilla Extract - vnlla Extract Co.

Vanilla extract is at the core of delicious baked goods. The products from vnlla Extract Co. helps you to unleash your creativity. The Pure Vanilla Extract starts with Bourbon vanilla beans grown and harvested by its partner farmers in Madagascar, who carefully hand-pollinate each vanilla orchid. Then it is extracted and bottled in the U.S. to capture the essence of each and every bean.

Cookies and Cake Mixes - Eat G.A.N.G.S.T.E.R.

For those who want to eat wholesome, gut-friendly, delicious food, you don’t have to tough it out - eat G.A.N.G.S.T.E.R. Without grains, eggs, dairy or nuts, Eat G.A.N.G.S.T.E.R cookie and cake mixes will bring you joy while supporting you in your health journey. G.A.N.G.S.T.E.R stands for Grain-free, Additive-free, Nightshade-free, Gluten-free, Soy and Legume-free, Tree-nut and Seed-free, Egg and Dairy-free, and Refined Sugar-free. Cake mixes include Choconot Fudge and Cinnawin Spice, and Cookie Mixes include Oatmeal Schmoatmeal, 'Cut-Out' Sugar Cookie, and Caro'Bout Fudge Cookie.

Raw Organic Coconut Oil - Dignity Coconuts

Next time you grab a bottle of coconut oil, stop and think about how it’s sourced. You want to enjoy the benefits of this incredible superfood, yet at what cost? Reach for raw coconut oil from Dignity Coconuts and know that each jar is made with principle and respect for those that have worked hard to bottle up this much-used item that continues to grow in popularity. Each jar of its premium coconut oil has an actual signature by one of the proud workers. The brand exists to help communities overcome cycles of poverty and copra-slavery, a cycle of predatory loans and depressed prices which leads to sex trafficking. They do this by making the purest and delicious virgin coconut oil using a proprietary centrifuge extracted process, creating a genuinely raw product.

Cashew Butter - Once Again Nut Butter

Once Again Cashew Butter makes it possible for your plant-based baked goods to be fluffy, light, and delicious. When you experiment baking with cashew butter, you will be surprised that recipes that don’t include eggs or any oil at all, can work so wonderfully. Like other plant-based nut butters, cashew butter comes with a variety of health benefits. Slightly lower in fat than other nut butters, cashew butter is one of the best sources for monounsaturated fatty acids, essential amino acids, and magnesium. These nutrients benefit your metabolism, your sugar and cholesterol control, your bone health, and blood pressure.

Greek Yogurt - Oikos

Greek yogurt is the perfect substitution for butter or oil in healthy baking. Once you crack the code on Greek yogurt recipe swaps, you’ll never look at dairy the same way again. This stuff can literally do anything. Oikos Triple Zero has15g of high-quality protein and 0g of added sugar, 0 artificial sweeteners, and 0g of fat per 5.3oz., while Oikos Pro has with 20g of high-quality protein per 5.3oz.

Baking Mixes - The Vegan Knife

The Vegan Knife was formed to help those who suffer from food allergies and those that enjoy a vegan lifestyle. Try baking this delicious cinnamon sugar donuts using the donut mix. Just add non-dairy milk, oil, and vanilla to this gluten free blend of cinnamon and nutmeg to create a perfectly moist donut that will have you dancing for joy.