Dinner Rolls

Thanksgiving NEEDS rolls! Use our bread kit to make your own warm soft gluten free rolls! To use this recipe you will need our specially blended Bread flour mix kit. These flours are not your average rice and tapioca flours so they cannot be bought in a store. But the mix can be bought here.

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Rosemary Focaccia

As you know our bread at the bakery is pretty unique.  And our at-home bread baking kit is getting a fun following. So as promised, to all of our followers, here’s a great recipe for focaccia with our kit. It makes wonderful sandwiches.  Arek loves in cut into thick squares and dipped in his soups!…

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Celine’s Grain Free Paleo Granola

Looking for a great Grain-free Paleo granola? This version is my copycat to Paleo Hero’s Primal Granola except vegan with no honey. It’s very easy to just mix the ingredients and toast in your oven. Makes about 5 cups in about 30 minutes

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Fat Bomb (Keto) Chocolate Mint Brownies

I know the holiday’s have had me posting all sorts of recipes for my Vegan GF baking fans. And now that January is upon us, the fat loss coach in me will take over! It’s time to buckle down and it’s time for some low carb goodies! I love chocolate mint things – everything chocolate…

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Making Karma Baker’s Bread at home.

Welcome to the bread class! If you are here, you’ve have probably bought our new home bread kit and want some extra instructions and tips! Celine’s Gluten Free Bread Loaf Ingredients 18 oz warm water (110° to 115°) 3 tablespoons sugar ¼ cup olive oil or canola 1/2 ounce active dry yeast (use entire packet…

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Christmas Sugar Cookies!

My grandma Lucy was the queen of sugar cookies. At Christmas she would make hundreds of thin crispy santas, bells and candy canes. I took for granted that each one was hand cut and ate them like crazy… but seriously what a job! hundreds! I dont know how she had the time. She had a job…

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Traditional Pumpkin Pie … vegan & gluten-free

If you love to bake and want to make your own pies this year, here’s the recipe you need! there are so many recipes out there. Most have amazing pictures and the recipes just don’t measure up. I know I’ve been sucked into a pretty picture or 2 just to have a total recipe fail…

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Vegan Paleo Keto Whipped Cream

This whipped cream may change your life! Not all coconut cream is the same or works as well. Use one from Thailand for best results. To make this Paleo, omit the cane sugar and use a 1/2 tsp stevia

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Jackfruit Turkey & Gravy… Thanksgiving 2019

Hi All! It’s been recording breaking busy at the bakery! Just so busy with many moving parts! Our new KarmaBoxes going out, Cakes being shipped, supplying to our wholesale grocery stores and cafes and of course… our store front! We make around 600 pies in November… it boggles my mind that that is even a…

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Vegan Tofu Frittata Low Carb Breakfast

Being vegan means sacrificing some things. I have sacrificed many things and don’t regret any of it ~ at all. Talk about worth it!! My health and the lives of the animals and the environment are way more important than my tiny momentary ideas of happiness. That being said – I do miss the convenience…

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Meat Loaf for Vegans!

As many of you know from my personal instagram, I’ve been living and eating the FASTer Way to Fat Loss lifestyle since January 2019!  I finally found something to help me get rid of these vegan carb pounds! I know – I know… most people switch to vegan and BOOM!!!… they get all stick like.…

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Paleo Sugar Free Vegan Almond Fat Bombs

My Favorite Fat Bombs… so far 😉

Welcome to my new world of FASTer Way To Fat Loss®! You’ll be hearing a lot about it if you hang around here. The items I’m blogging about here aren’t available at the bakery so please don’t even ask. They are a gift to you and my coaching clients. As I sift through all of…

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Herbed Goat Cheese (Cashew & Almond Blend)

I thought I’d create a post with this recipe since everyone at the bakery is asking for the recipe! love sharing this kind of stuff with my peeps! Enjoys loves! xxx This version with half chashews, half almonds, is a little lighter than how I used to make it with 100% cashews. The almonds take…

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Karma Cookies (Vegan & GF Oreo dupe!)

I first had a “homemade” oreo-style cookie in the late ’90s at the original La Brea Bakery. It was indeed on La Brea Ave next door to Campanile, the amazing Italian restaurant started by Nancy Silverton’s then-husband where she was the Pastry Chef and the Head Baker at the bakery next door. The now very…

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Thanksgiving at Celine’s House!

We had the best thanksgiving this year!  my whole family came to my house in honor of my sweet Grampa Louie who is having trouble this year – his forgetfulness has gone off the charts.. it’s pretty bad 🙁 He had a good day tho and we all just found the light in being together.…

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Pumpkin Crumb Cake ~a love story~

It’s Aidan’s birthday party. He’s turning 7. I brought my vegan gluten-free pumpkin crumb cake, Alison’s favorite. Vegan. Gluten-free. Trying to satisfy everyone’s food issues. It’s not famous yet. Just really good. It surprised us all how moist it turned out the very first time I made it. She requested I bring it. I told…

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Vegan Mascarpone Fruit Tart

Vegan Mascarpone Fruit Tart This beautiful tart is a show stopper! And will blow people’s minds when they learn it’s vegan! The mascarpone filling is so dense and creamy. The crust uses our traditional graham cracker recipe, which can be made ahead of time. This is my easy “at-home” version, it comes together super quick!…

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Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cupcakes

These rich chocolate cupcakes have a surprise inside… sweet liquidy cherries! We make these at the bakery for the holidays… with our fool proof gluten free flour and the best organic cocoa powder you can find. It matters.      Buy Our Organic Gluten Free flour here… Save

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Buttermilk Donuts

Direct from our kitchen… these are our newest donuts. Vegan and gluten free light and moist donuts. We use oat flour in these ones to give them a unique taste. Scroll down for the Cinnamon Sugar recipe.  

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At last! Vegan buttercream truffles!

These smooth and creamy butter-creams were inspired by Miyoko’s Vegan Butter. It’s so nice to have beautiful organic products to create with… it means I don’t have to make it myself. Thank you Miyoko’s Kitchen! 🙂

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Valentine’s Day at KB and our sugar cookie recipe!

It’s too much fun around here – i had to share… here’s what’s coming up for Valentines day! Lots of sweet cookies in the bakery AND now you can ship a box of beautifully decorated cookies to your sweethearts! here’s the skinny…! show your luvs how good vegan can be! ship a box of these…

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Cinnamon Roll Protein Waffles!

We’re pretty excited about the newest addition to the Karma family; Waffles! AND not just regular waffles, but protein waffles… 7g per waffle! Made from all organic plant-based protein powders. We use the cleanest and best tasting Brown Rice and Pea Proteins. Arek and I make protein shakes at home regularly. I’m in love with…

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Sofia’s Brownie … the beginnings of Karma Baker

At our bakery, people ask me all of the time why I started Karma Baker. Of course there were many inspirations; loving to bake for others, the increasing prevalence of food allergies, my own food allergies! But the story that most illustrates the Karma Baker mission, the story that never fails to inspire me again…

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Gluten Free Graham Crackers

S’mores and cheesecake are the 2 things that NEED graham crackers. Nothing really compares. We created this recipe for our cheesecakes and key lime tarts! Magic! Karma Baker’s Graham Crackers To get that great graham flavor, use Grade B Maple Syrup, it has more flavor. I love the flavor of Vietnamese Cinnamon too! A little…

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Vegan Caramel

Vegan Caramel – The Ultimate Tutorial I finally got it down on paper… It took me a few weeks of trials, a whole day with my lovely young assistant, my daughter Ruby, and the hot Southern California weather to finally chill out a bit; and now here’s my recipe for Vegan Caramel Sauce! Get ready…

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The holidays mean … Pie!

Yay! it’s holiday season! As a baker that means lots of baking. And as a pie girl- that means pie crust! I have to admit I’ve always been a lazy baker. Back in the easy (non Vegan &Gluten-Free) days of boxed mixes and frozen pie crusts, I would cut corners where it wouldn’t matter too…

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The Best Organic, Vegan and Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake

Don’t you hate a recipe that tells you to use any old Gluten-Free Flour? I really do. Especially when it comes to Vanilla Cake. Vanilla cake did not come easily to me when I started this crazy business of a vegan and gluten free bakery. It took over 2 years to perfect it. The attempts that…

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Enlightened Sprinkles: The Karma Way

Let’s talk about sprinkles… Sprinkles are just plain fun! Fun on cupcakes, trans-formative on cookies, and duh on donuts!!! And don’t get me started on funfetti cakes!! Sprinkles rock the baking world. They can turn a plain cupcake into a party. There are 2 kinds of sprinkles.  First, “traditional” sprinkles…they are made with confectioners sugar,…

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Vegan & Gluten-Free, Halloween Brain Cake

  I was totally inspired by a french blogger and her amazingly beautiful photos of this brain cake. I chose to use the brain as a topper for a tiered white fondant cake with slashes cut into the fondant and blood running out and down the sides. IT turned out very cool … maybe a…

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