Category: Homemade

Honey Dipped Donuts with Bee Harmony Honey

4/3/2019

HONEY DIPPED DONUTS WITH
BEE HARMONY HONEY

“This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Bee Harmony® Honey. The opinions and text are all mine.”

Baking with honey isn't always straight-forward when you’re substituting for refined sugar. You often have to slightly adjust the amount of liquids and dry ingredients in the recipe to support the added moisture and softer texture, but it is one of my FAVORITE things to sweeten with! Honey adds a lightness and sweetness to baked goods that is simply unparalleled, and using responsibly sourced honey is GOOD for the bees!

Right now bees everywhere are facing serious threats - and so are we! Things like widespread pesticide use, habitat loss (think expanding road construction + land development) and parasites all threaten bee health and populations. For honeybees in particular, these threats lead to something called Colony Collapse Disorder which occurs when the worker bees disappear from the hive. With no mature bees to bring nectar and pollen back to the queen and younger bees, the colony collapses and dies. And without these important pollinators, our food supply and ecosystems are in big trouble. Plants don’t get pollinated, flowers don’t grow, animals that eat those plants lose their food sources…you get the idea.

So how can you help? A few great ways! First, plant some flowers! Start a bee-friendly garden (tips at beesponsible.com) that encourages these natural hard-workers to hang out and pollinate your plants! And remember, don’t use pesticides in your garden. Second, start buying responsibly sourced honey that supports a bigger effort to save the bees. After doing my research, Bee Harmony Honey really is the best. Their honey comes from bees drawing nectar from wildflower blossoms across superior forage lands, tended by trusted beekeepers, using responsible practices that respect the environment. This stuff is the real deal, and you can purchase based on the varietal you prefer (which depends on the flowers bees gather nectar from) or the region you live in. And best of all? Every jar of Bee Harmony Honey is traceable to the source; just head to their website and type in the 8-digit code on the bottom of your honey! Mine traced back to where I had hoped it would - my (current) home state of California! That means that I'm taking in honey with more local pollen from local plants, increasing my chances of combating seasonal allergies to those plants and staying healthier year round. Good for the bees, and good for me.

Plus, all the honey comes in reusable, recyclable glass jars, making this sweet company even more sustainable and worth your dollars. Want to try some Bee Harmony Honey for yourself? Use code GOODSAINT15 to save 15% on your order at beesponsible.com!

I'm a huge fan of supporting companies that are working to better our planet, so today I'm teaming up with Bee Harmony Honey to share one of my favorite honey-sweetened recipes: Honey Dipped Donuts! The base is simple, sweet, and satisfying every time. The glaze adds a layer of sweet, sticky goodness that goes far beyond your typical donut glaze. Rich, a little buttery, and hard to share so you might want to make extra - these donuts are a serious crowd pleaser! Recipe is below. Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:
HONEY DONUTS
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup macadamia nut milk (almond + coconut work great here, too!)
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
2 eggs OR 1/3 cup aquafaba
1/2 cup Bee Harmony Honey (I used Local Raw California)
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
HONEY GLAZE
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons macadamia (or your choice of non-dairy) milk
2 tablespoons Bee Harmony Honey (I used Local Raw California)

DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

In a small bowl whisk together the milk and apple cider vinegar and allow to curdle, about 5 minutes.

In a separate, larger mixing bowl beat together the eggs or aqaufaba and honey. Add in the coconut oil and vanilla and beat again until fluffy. Pour the milk mixture into the wet ingredients, stirring to combine. Pour the wet mixture into the dry and mix until just combined. Some small lumps in the batter are okay!

Pour your batter into greased 6-donut pans and bake for 13-15 minutes. Pull when golden and let cool completely on a wire rack. While donuts cool, prepare the honey glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar, milk and honey. Whisk or beat together until smooth.

Once the donuts have cooled, gently dip one side of the donut into the honey dip mixture and then set back, glazed side up, onto the wire rack. Drips will happen, so I recommend placing some wax paper underneath your rack while they settle. Once the glaze has set - ENJOY! Leftovers can be saved on the counter for 2-3 days. (SCROLL FOR PRINTABLE VERSION!)

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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Barkman. The opinions and text are all mine.

Baking with honey isn't super common. You often have to slightly adjust the amount of liquids and dry ingredients in the recipe to support the added moisture and softer texture, but it is one of my FAVORITE things to sweeten with! Honey adds a lightness and sweetness to baked goods that is simply unparalleled, and using responsibly sourced honey can be GOOD for the bees!

Right now bees are facing a serious threat - and so are we! This threat is called Colony Collapse Disorder and it occurs when worker bees simply disappear from a hive, leaving behind the queen bee, a few nurse bees, and countless baby bees. With no mature worker bees to bring nectar and pollen bak to the hive, the colony collapses and dies. The main causes of CCD are loss of habitat (think expanding road construction + land development), parasites and diseases, air pollution and pesticides. Without bees, everything sort of ceases to function. Plants don't get pollinated, flowers don't grow, animals that eat those plants start to die off - according to the BBC in 2014, a world without bees would struggle to sustain the global human population of (now) over 7.7 billion.

So how can you help? A few great ways! First, plant some flowers! Start a bee-friendly garden (tips at beesponsible.com) that encourages these natural hard-workers to hang out and pollinate your plants! Second, start buying responsibly sourced honey that supports a bigger effort to save the bees. After doing my research, Bee Harmony Honey really is the best. Their honey comes from bees drawing nectar form wildflower blossoms across superior forage lands, tended by trusted beekeepers, using responsible practices that respect the environment. They're not churning out cheap, sugar-filled, honey-flavored crap - this stuff is the real deal, and you can purchase based on the flavor you prefer or the region you live in. And best of all? Every jar of honey you buy from Bee Harmony Honey is traceable from the source; just head to their website and type in the 8-digit code on the bottom of your honey! Mine traced back to where I had hoped it would - my (current) home state of California! That means that I'm taking in honey with more local pollen from local plants, increasing my chances of combating seasonal allergies to those plants and staying healthier year round. Good for the bees, and good for me.

Plus, all the honey comes in reusable, recyclable glass jars, making this sweet company even more sustainable and worth your dollars. I'm a huge fan of supporting companies that are working to better our planet, so today I'm teaming up with Bee Harmony Honey to share one of my favorite honey-sweetened recipes: Honey Dipped Donuts!

The base is simple, sweet, and satisfying every time. The glaze adds a layer of sweet, sticky goodness that goes far beyond your typical donut glaze. Rich, a little buttery, but hard to share - these donuts are a serious crowd pleaser! Recipe is below. Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:

HONEY DONUTS

1 cup all purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup macadamia nut milk (almond + coconut work great here, too!)

1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar

2 eggs OR 1/3 cup aquafaba

1/2 cup Bee Harmony California Honey

2 tablespoons coconut oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

HONEY GLAZE

2 cups powdered sugar

2 tablespoons macadamia (or your choice of non-dairy) milk

2 tablespoons Bee Harmony California Honey

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large mixing bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

In a small bowl whisk together the milk and apple cider vinegar and allow to curdle, about 5 minutes.

In a separate, larger mixing bowl beat together the eggs or aqaufaba and honey. Add in the coconut oil and vanilla and beat again until fluffy. Pour the milk mixture into the wet ingredients, stirring to combine. Pour the wet mixture into the dry and mix until just combined. Some small lumps in the batter are okay!

Pour your batter into greased 6-donut pans and bake for 13-15 minutes. Pull when golden and let cool completely on a wire rack. While donuts cool, prepare the honey glaze by whisking together the powdered sugar, milk and honey. Whisk or beat together until smooth.

Once the donuts have cooled, gently dip one side of the donut into the honey dip mixture and then set back, glazed side up, onto the wire rack. Drips will happen, so I recommend placing some waxed paper underneath your rack while they settle. Once the glaze has set - ENJOY! Leftovers can be saved on the counter for 2-3 days.

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Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

8/29/2018

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Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

I have always been the kind of person who LOVED birthdays. I would celebrate as long as possible - the whole month if you'd let me! If you listened to the latest episode of my podcast, you know that I'm a total PITTA and that fire in my belly keeps me craving attention, so it makes sense that I would love a day centered around celebrating ME! I've had a pretty great last few birthdays, but this year totally snuck up on me. I have been so insanely busy between the blog, podcast, and new promotion at the yoga studio (studio assistant what whatttt) that I literally didn't realize until just a few days ago when my husband reminded me that we needed to figure out how we were going to celebrate. YIKES! (I must be getting old guys - I'm already forgetting my OWN birthday! 🙈)

It's the Thursday before my Saturday birthday and I still don't know how I want to celebrate (taking suggestions!) but I DID know what I wanted to eat on my birthday. I love sweets but I'm all about that low-sugar life, so I created the birthday cookie cookie of my dreams - an Organic Funfetti Sugar Cookie that hold its shape when it bakes, so you can cookie cut them into whatever cute shapes you like! They're light, sweet, and the PERFECT cookie to splurge on for your birthday - because you can eat as many as you want without having to worry about your sugar intake! Also it's your damn birthday and SOMEONE better make you cake, so let these be your at home treat. I had 6 yesterday. No regrets - bring on 28!

Turning 28 isn't a huge milestone, but 27 was a pretty great year for me. I had a lot of great experiences, made new forever friends, found some workouts that have kept me sane + feeling confident about my health and my body, and did some serious traveling. I made so many great memories and proved to myself how much growth I could experience in a year. 26 was hard, 27 was great, and I expect 28 to be filled with even more opportunities and positive memories! These cookies totally fit for who I am now - obsessed with eating as many cookies as possible as healthfully as possible! A few years ago I would've made a huge, triple layer cake or fudge-filled brownies but these days I'm all about indulging in a guilt-free way - and these cookies rival any cookie with 3x the sugar, guaranteed. I didn't write any long words of wisdom about this birthday, but a few years ago I did come up with 25 Things I'd Learned at 25 and they still stand pretty true. Maybe I'll make another list at 30. For now - let's bake, babes!

INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 cup organic all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup non-dairy butter
1 cup monk fruit sweetener (I used this brand, but you can always use sugar or your fave sub instead. If you choose to use stevia, I would recommend only subbing half the amount for taste.)
1 egg (or vegan egg substitute - a chia egg works great here!)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup sprinkles

DIRECTIONS
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a medium sized mixing bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

In a separate, larger mixing bowl beat the butter and sugar (or sweetener) together until fluffy. Add in the egg and the vanilla and beat until the mixture becomes fluffy again. Pour in the dry ingredient mixture, continuously mixing until a dough forms.

Pour in the sprinkles and use your hands to mix them evenly into the dough. Refrigerate the dough, covered, for 20-30 minutes. While the dough chills, lay out some parchment paper and grab a rolling pin. When your dough is ready, roll it out to about 1/4 inch thickness and use a cookie cutter to cut out your favorite shapes.

Place cut cookies onto a lined baking sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool before enjoying. Leftovers save well in a sealed container for up to a week - if they last that long!

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My Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe + Top Tips for Making Pizza at Home!

5/2/2018

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My PERFECT PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE +
TOP TIPS FOR MAKING PIZZA AT HOME!

For one whole summer, Alex worked as the head pizza chef at a local farm and cafe and their Friday night pizza night got POPPIN'! And I don't want to brag too much, but it was absolutely because his pizza was the best pizza around. My husband makes a mean pie, friends. It's one of the reasons I married him! Seriously - who doesn't love a man who can cook?! His pizza skills were so good that literally the whole town would come out to party, commune, and share a slice each week and he became kind of small town famous for his crispy, chewy, thing crust pizzas with creative, straight-from-the-farm toppings. He would take whatever local and seasonal produce was around and make a pie worthy of a trip out even in blizzard weather - and he still makes me those fresh, creative pans weekly. I'm a very lucky lady. When we started sharing his creations at mealtime on IG, we got a ton of positive feedback! People wanted our PIZZAS! And while we haven't quite figured out how to get them to you directly through the internet, I can share our homemade crust recipe and some of top tips for homemade pizza making so you can have as much success as possible when you're trying it at home.

Alex is the king of all things 'za in this house, and he has officially declared this the ‘perfect pizza dough’. So who am I to argue? It comes together pretty easily, makes a great crispy, chewy crust and makes enough dough for two pizzas - so you don’t have to share. It's the same recipe he used to wow all the fans at the Friday night pizza parties, so you can be sure it'll make a fool-proof, crowd pleasing crust! And that makes it pretty perfect to me. Enjoy, babes! And be sure to let me know what you think - and what you top it with - in the comments below. Keep scrolling for my top pizza-makin' tips!

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Okay, babes - before we get to the magical dough recipe itself, let's go over a few top tips for making your homemade pie the best it can be! Write 'em down or print 'em out - these tips are about to seriously improve your pizza game!

1. Don't over-handle the dough! Keep your handling of the dough to a minimum until you're ready to stretch it out, and even then don't fold the dough in on itself after separating into two doughs, even though it's tempting. You want your dough to have some lightness and air or you'll have a stiff, too chewy crust.

2. Bake your pizza at 450 degrees F or more. The higher the temperature, the better. Seriously - if your oven gets to 700 degrees, go for it. You'll adjust cooking times properly, so start with about 10 mins and go from there. When the crust is golden to preference and lifts in one solid piece from the pan, you're ready to eat.

3. Shred your cheese, or break in into smaller pieces to ensure even melting - especially if you're using vegan cheese, which tends to be less melty. Our favorite brand to use is Miyoko's Vegan Mozzarella.

4. Once your crust is tossed and spread onto your baking surface, use a fork to poke small holes evenly around the crust to reduce air bubbles forming in the crust.

5. Use a high-quality baking surface. We use a large steel pizza pan, but anything that will heat and cook evenly will work great! We use flour to prevent the dough sticking to the pan.

Now, let's EAT! Scroll on for my dough recipe - there's a printable there version, too!

PERFECT PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE

INGREDIENTS
2 1/4 teaspoons (7 g) active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups (360 ml) warm water
3 1/2 cups (525 g) all purpose flour, plus more as needed
2 teaspoons (6 g) salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons (30 ml) olive oil, plus more for greasing

DIRECTIONS
Pour the yeast and warm water into a small bowl and stir. Set aside for 5 minutes.

In a stand mixer combine the flour, salt and sugar. Pour in the yeast mixture and the olive oil and using the bread hook attachment, knead the mixture together until it comes together and forms a ball. If the dough seems too sticky, add flour as needed. If it’s too dry, add a bit of water.

Move the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead into a smooth, firm, ball. Grease the inside of the mixing bowl lightly and place the dough back inside. Cover with plastic wrap or a clean dishtowel and place in a warm place to double in size, about 1-2 hours.

When ready, turn the dough to a lightly floured surface and, handling as little as possible, cut the dough into 2 equal pieces. Let them rest for 10 minutes before tossing and stretching for pizza!

NOTES
Makes 2 doughs.

Dough can be refrigerated up to two days or frozen indefinitely.

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Honey Dipped Donuts with Bee Harmony Honey

HONEY DIPPED DONUTS WITH
BEE HARMONY HONEY

Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

My Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe + Top Tips for Making Pizza at Home!

My PERFECT PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE +
TOP TIPS FOR MAKING PIZZA AT HOME!

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G O O D S A I N T

S T A Y F R E S H + S U B S C R I B E

Honey Dipped Donuts with Bee Harmony Honey

HONEY DIPPED DONUTS WITH ​BEE HARMONY HONEY

Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

Organic Funfetti Cookies for my 28th Birthday!

My Perfect Pizza Dough Recipe + Top Tips for Making Pizza at Home!

My PERFECT PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE + ​TOP TIPS FOR MAKING PIZZA AT HOME!

tags

G O O D S A I N T

S T A Y F R E S H + S U B S C R I B E

HONEY DIPPED DONUTS WITH
BEE HARMONY HONEY

My PERFECT PIZZA DOUGH RECIPE +
TOP TIPS FOR MAKING PIZZA AT HOME!