Paleo and Grain-Free Baking Supplies for the Holiday Season!

Everyone knows that holidays can be challenging for those following a Paleo or a Grain-Free diet. All the classic holiday baked goodies - gingerbread cookies, holiday bark, pumpkin pies, cranberry bread and more - are not typically made to suit the paleo or grain-free diet, leaving you out of the fun of eating all the holiday treats. 

 

So, don't risk it! You don't have to be left out this holiday season! Not everyone understands the Paleo or grain-free lifestyle, but we do. And, we're here to help you get through the holidays, one baked good at a time. 

Here are the top baking supplies for paleo and grain-free holiday baking with a touch of holiday baking inspiration:

Flours:

• For all your basic baking needs, Bob’s Red Mill Paleo Baking Flour is an essential for your kitchen!
• Add a touch of coconut to your holiday cinnamon cakes with Nutiva Organic Coconut Flour.
• Make Holiday macarons with Bob’s Red Mill Almond flour.
• Ecoideas Organic Tigernut Flour is a diverse paleo-friendly flour that offers a sweet & nutty flavour to your holiday cookies, cakes, and other baked goods!
• Bake a delicious cranberry and walnut bread loaf with Bob’s Red Mill Cassava Flour

Chocolates:

• Pascha Unsweetened Chocolate Chips have just 1 ingredient, organic cocoa mass!
• Hu Simple Dark Chocolate bar  is perfect for melting to use for your favourite chocolate peppermint bark.
• Hu Kitchen Dark Chocolate Gems is an essential ingredient for making those perfect dark chocolate holiday truffles!

Fats & Oils:

• Replace butter with Chosen Foods Avocado Oil for any of your recipes! 
• Artisana Raw Vegan Cashew Butter to make shortbread cookies for Santa.
• Use Nutiva Organic Coconut Oil to make delicious gingerbread fudge.

Sweeteners:

• Sweeten any treat or drink with Sweetleaf Organics Organic Stevia Sweetener.
• Make a sweet glaze or a Honey cake with Wedderspoon Manuka Honey!
• Bake warm, toasty cinnamon Top buns with Swerve Brown Sugar Replacement.
• Create the perfect icing with Swerve Confectioners (Icing) Sugar.

Milk Substitutes:

• Use Califia Farms Unsweetened Almond Milk or Elmhurst Unsweetened Almond Milk for a Dairy-Free Milk Substitute for baking!
• Try Nutpods Caramel or Pumpkin Spice to make a perfect salted caramel or pumpkin spice latte. (though these come in many other flavours)
• Use Thai Kitchen Unsweetened Coconut Milk for a moist, delicious coconut cake!

Spices & Flavouring:

• Keep Primal Palate Organic Vanilla Extract in your pantry for any holiday baking. 
• Make your favourite peppermint hot cocoa with Navita Organics Cacao Powder
• Use Simply Organic Cinnamon for your famous snickerdoodle recipe.
• Build a gingerbread mansion with Simply Organic Ginger Root.
• Bake the tastiest apple pie with Primal Palate Organic Apple Pie Spice.

Baking Mixes:

Whether you’re a new baker, your treats don’t turn out as planned or your feeling a little lazy, use a baking mix to make tasty holiday treats:

• Simple Mills Pumpkin Muffin Mix for those perfect Grain-Free Pumpkin Spice Muffins!
• Bob's Red Mill makes an amazing Paleo Grain-Free Brownie Mix!
• Impress with amazing home-made french toast using Simple Mills Artisan Bread Mix.
• Chebe has released an awesome Cinnamon Roll Mix, for those gooey, sticky cinnamon buns!

 

Toppings / Miscellaneous: 

• For that delicious Chocolate Pretzel Bark, try Quinn Grain-Free Pretzel Chips!
• Coconut recipes made easy, with Let’s Do Organic Unsweetened Coconut Flakes!
• Use Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Vegan Egg Replacement in case you had too much eggnog and dropped one too many eggs.

By using any of these products, your holiday desserts will turn out just right! Whether it's Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Eid, or New Year's Eve, there’s always holiday feasting to be had! And, with so many eating-focused traditions, you might be relieved that you have a secretly healthy, no-guilt, low-calorie, paleo and grain-free holiday treat to indulge in. So, don't be left out this holiday season! Pick up your paleo and grain-free baking supplies today!

Need Recipe Inspiration?

Check out these easy, fun, and quick, paleo and grain-free recipes that are sure to please a whole crowd!

Tigernut Paleo Mini Muffins: a little treat with a lot of flavour! These paleo mini muffins are made with fresh bananas and pumpkin seeds for a little extra fibre and have no sugar added. They are small but mighty, and easy to transport to holiday parties. Easy to make and ready in just 30 minutes!

Low Carb Pumpkin Pie Squares: These bars are low-carb, using almond flour and coconut flour for the crust, and powdered stevia to sweeten! No trying to create the perfect pumpkin spice blend here! We used Primal Palate Pumpkin Pie Spice, which did all the work!

New to Paleo or a Grain-Free? Check out the diet pages for these for some other products, and helpful tricks and tips!

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