Katinka's Nourishing Kitchen

16/12/2021

Gingerbread house or cookies need icing!
Cinnamon rolls need a glaze!

Yes, this is all extra sugar, but I had to realize they bring so much joy for kiddos!! I have some tricks for you to make them less evil and also more workable.

1) Use organic powdered sugar - save on the chemicals, pesticides, and GMOs (Family Baking Kit comes with organic powdered sugar)
2) Up to 50% you can substitute powdered sugar with tapioca flour

I get lots of questions how to decorate gingerbread cookies and houses so here are my secrets to the perfect icing. (Recipes also come with the Family Baking Kit bundle). TIP 1: Little lemon juice is the secret ingredient.
It will give a little zing to the flavor profile while also make your icing shinier.
TIP 2: If you wish to add some festive colors.....to make decorating even more fun for the kiddos ... we love using green spriulina or chlorella as green and beet powder for red.
TIP 3: As for piping..... well, we tried the good ol' ziplock bag version, and we had icing all over the place. They tend to be to thin, so when small hands work it they can apply too much pressure and blop there goes all icing on one cookie. So we have been using proper, one time use piping bags. I don't have any plastic in my kitchen - besides these babes. I really dislike to clean them... so we either use these or don't pipe around.

01/12/2021

Did you know that my makes incredible, like really really incredible grain free croutons?
I made it from leftover stuffing bread cubes… I couldn’t stop munching on them.
I didn’t even know that I have been missing croutons… added crunchiness for soups, salads and more is now solved!!
How would you use these babies?

11/10/2021

I was invited last week to Bloom TV, Tampa Bay's only daily lifestyle and wellness TV show to share about my new launch: Cinnamon Bread Rolls. I was excited to be back to the studio as a BLOOM contributor to share some fun with WFLA Gayle Guyardo, the wonderful host.
There Cinnamon Bread Rolls are so easy to make, I could whip them up in less then 5 minutes on set (plus baking time of course)! Watch this cooking segment for a little Fall scented inspiration!

Katinka Bencs of Katinka’s Nourishing Kitchen joins Gayle Guyardo the host of the nationally syndicated health and wellness show Bloom with a healthy spin on delicious cinnamon rolls. Bloom a…

28/09/2021

I am back and something else will be back soon too!!
Anyone who tried them loved it and asked to bring it back in stock.
You asked, I listened. 😍
Cinnamon Bread Rolls will be back in a few days!! 🎉🎉

07/04/2021

So this happened yesterday! We started our own girls scout cookie bake sale!
This is Zoe’s first year as a Girl Scout. I was one too so I was so happy when she expressed interest. The only one thing I was a bit nervous about is the cookie sales that I knew will come. We had so many sweet little girls knocking on our door during the descent years. I felt awful not being able to support them, but those ingredients just don’t belong to my house. This year we learned something new that just made it an absolute no go for our troop to sell these cookies. The use of palm oil. Not from sustainable sources. Not sustainably harvested palm oil includes child labor.
So our amazing troop leaders came up with the incredible idea to sell our own goods and use the profit to support and organization (IJM.org) that fights child labor. As baking is up in our alley in our family we decided to bake cookies - just better ones! Organic ones. Clean ones. We want to keep our neighborhood healthy!

If you would like to try them and be part of donating to a good cause I created a brand new, blend for you! Limited time offer! Order till Saturday and I will get them shipped to you on Monday. Link in bio.
50% of profits will go to IJM.org

25/01/2021

Something is in the works!!!
Can you guess what did we test today?
These two little ones gave me a huge thumbs up! Two other littles ones and a mama friend got to sample this first round today as well and they LOVED it too!! Am beyond excited!

25/12/2020

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!
We wish your celebration is filled with love, joy, laughter and nourishing food!

16/12/2020

A sight of cookies will surely bring a smile to the faces of all ages... 😊

Would you agree? 🙂

14/12/2020

By now you might know that I am in LOVE with gingerbread and all the sweet feels it brings to me. Yes, the the right amount of cinnamon, clove, all spice and ginger make the flavor just mouthwatering, but there is certainly something about the magic around it! As a child, I wasn’t much into desserts, especially (weirdly enough, I know) not into chocolate, but I will never forget the gingerbread cookies my mom's cousin made. I could not have enough of it!

We also had relatives living in Germany so I was introduced to lebkuchen. Oh, sweet amazingness! It is the German twist on gingerbread and soooo gooooood!

11 years ago I became gluten free and all the gingerbread fun was out the window… :disappointed: Until I became a Culinary Nutrition Expert and was brave enough to experiment and create my own recipes. The flood gates opened and I started to re-create holiday desserts both from my childhood and some American ones - all allergen and refined sugar free, clean and even nutritious!

These recipes are collected and put into a pretty e-book in my Holiday Treats Recipe Collection that is a free gift when you purchase two of my holiday bundles.

Check out the Holiday bundles here: www.katinka.org/gfholidays