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10 BAKING ESSENTIALS If your healthy diet is boring, you’re doing it wrong! There’s never been a better time to whip up healthy recipes. Discover the 13 most popular ingredients for healthy baking recipes (then get cooking with inspiration from recipes on The Core).
If you’ve never tried using your protein supplements and Active Foods in home baking, you’ve been missing out! Our healthy ingredients are amazingly versatile, lending themselves to healthier, protein-packed versions of your favourite treat recipes. 10 INGREDIENTS YOU NEED IN THE KITCHEN Pure Whey Protein Our best-selling Pure Whey Proteinpowder comes in 20 flavours (for now!) making it the perfect protein powder ingredient for healthier cookies, bars, cakes, and muffins. Organic Virgin Coconut Oil Organic coconut oil is a great ingredient for greasing and lining baking tins, adding moisture to recipes, or even spreading on hot, fresh baked goods. Yum! Because coconut oil is a healthy MCT fat, it’s a popular choice of fat ingredient for health-focused bakers. VitaFiber If you haven’t tried VitaFiber yet, you need to get on it! It will transform your protein baking. With just two ingredients (Pure Whey Protein and VitaFiber) you can create tasty, low carb cookies like these VitaFiberProtein Cookies Liquid Egg Whites Keep at least one bottle of liquid egg whites on hand (bonus: they don’t need to be kept in the fridge until they’ve been opened). You’ll have the option of adding loads of protein (and practically zero carbs or fats) to baking recipes, omelettes, frittatas and more. If a recipe calls for several whole eggs, replace one or more with liquid egg whites to suit your macros. Chia Seeds Chia seeds swell up in water, making them a fantastic binding ingredient for healthy baking. You can also make them into Chia Pudding, add them to your morning oats, use as a granola ingredient, or pop some in your shake. Chia seeds add healthy fats, fibre, and some extra protein. Peanut Butter Nut and seed butters add flavour and fats to your recipes, and you can spread them onto your homemade breads, cakes, and muffins. Liquiflav Sugar-free sweeteners are an excellent way to flavour your sweet recipes without adding any calories or macros. Use in recipes, in oats, with plain Greek yoghurt or cottage cheese, or in your coffee. ModCarb. Use this super grains powder in your baking recipes to add essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals alongside protein, carbs, and fibre. ModCarb is a blend of organic oatbran, amaranth, quinoa, millet, chia and buckwheat. You can use it in place of flour in any recipe. Why not try your hand at this Protein Banana Loaf recipe? Stevia Extract If you like your sweeteners to be all-natural, keep a bag of Stevia extract in your baking cupboard. Stevia is a non-sugar sweetener derived from the Stevia leaf. It is macro and calorie free, and delivers a lot of sweetness. Ideal in any recipe, coffee, tea, and porridge. Quinoa Flour Quinoa flour is a low-GI source of carbohydrate which has the added bonus of being gluten free, and suitable for vegans. You can use quinoa flour in place of other flours in any sweet or savoury recipe. It’s ideal for protein mug cakes. Here’s one of my favourite recipes on the Vegan Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Stuffed Cookie. |