Now many people are becoming aware of the harmful effects of maida and white sugar. Some of my friends told me that they already eliminated Maida and white sugar from daily cooking. But what about bakery items? Like birthday cakes, breads etc. Not everyone has time to make their own bread. So I suggested them to buy from reliable bakeries which bakes with wholewheat flour & other white sugar substitutes(but not sugar-free, honey etc) or from home-bakers who bakes the same for their friends and families too.

For the past few birthday gatherings, we bought cakes from home bakers who does healthy baking. I thought of adding the list of home bakers from Bangalore city alone.

• Healthy oven – Run by Saranya. She started baking for her kid and later expanded her art of baking to Wake and Bake Bakers. Along with birthday cakes, she bakes cookies, cupcakes & brownies too. She has a wide range of millet cookies for selection, all with organic ingredients. You can also customize according to your taste and needs. Once I got a baking recipe from internet and asked her to bake with minor changes which she made without any flaws. I have ordered multiple times from her and she has never disappointed us 🙂 Location – Bannerghatta Road

• Baker by the night – For the lovers of handmade & customized paper & clay jewelries, there is no need to introduce Pritesh Dagur, the owner of Art’zire. She started baking for her kid Anvesh and later explored and expanded her hands in baking. She bakes all sorts of breads & Buns, pizzas, cakes, brownies, rusks, cupcakes etc. If you are searching for gluten-free breads & pizzas, please end your search here. Last year, I ordered a cake from her and it was delivered on-time and with perfection, despite of the struggles she had to go through which only another baker can understand( Power failure in middle of baking, a bharat bandh, and an unwell child). Location – Bellandur

I did not get a chance to order from the below home bakers to share the reviews. I listed down these bakers recently during my healthy-bakers-hunt.

• Ovenderful – Simran Oberoi’s venture is all about making healthy and organic bakes which are free from preservatives, artificial colors and flavors. They bakes tea cakes, tarts, quiches, cupcakes,muffins, loaf cakes, scones with a wide range of ingredients to choose like wholewheat/ragi/semolina/rice/flour/almond flour/barley flour/buckwheat flour/amaranth flour bakes as well as eggless/nut free/butterless/ kid friendly options also available. There are selected vegan and gluten free options also.
  Simran Oberoi is one among the motivators for me. Not for baking(as I am yet to learn the art), but for the kindness she radiates. A facebook group, Ovenderful Mom Bakers Community(OMBC) was started by her in 2014 for sharing ideas and information related to healthy baking. The main difference here is they follow a zero-maida and zero-refined white sugar rule. OMBC also combines healthy baking with social impact to make a wider community impact by conducting fund-raiser events etc.
  Location – Rustam Bagh layout

• Taantraa Organic Handbaking – Unlike others who turned bakers in out-of-need, Chaitali Raizada started baking when she was a kid 🙂 She uses almond flour, multigrain, jaggery and only organic ingredients in her bakes. Apart from the cakes, she also offers nuts & seed breads, nut butters, energy bars, cookies and lite granola. Taantra is widely appreciated by various nutrition experts, diabetes,gluten-allergic people too. The publications like Femina and Vogue, have covered Taantra bakes. Location – Indiranagar, Double road

• Gluten free Bread Boutique – Shweta specializes on gluten-free,vegan,lactose-free, soy-free,eggless,no-corn, no-processed sugar,non-GMO breads,cakes, cookies, pizzas etc. Few ingredients include millets, bean flour, amaranth flour, tapioca flour, flaxmeal, honey etc. She conducts baking classes too on demand.
  Location – 100Feet Road, Indiranagar

• Krumb kraft – Samrudhi Nayak bakes and teaches healthy baking too. Specialized in breads with sourdough base* and wild yeast(European bakes). She also spreads her knowledge by conducting workshops across the cities. Bread is not just bread for Samrudhi, its an art and there are techniques which have to be followed for each bread. She has been featured in The Hindu. So what are you waiting for? You won’t get much better crumbs than in Krumb kraft
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  Website – http://krumbkraft.in/

Did you say what’s bread without the spread?

• Arti’s Jams & Sauces – Arti Vineesh Kumar got introduced to jam making recently. She started with strawberry jam and never stopped making till now 😉 . She uses the best quality seasonal fruits and vouches on no-artificial colors/favors/preservatives being added to her products. They can be safely consumed by kids as well as elders. Since there is zero preservative, the products have a lesser shelf life when compared to year long shelf life of store-bought products which is made with all the types of preservatives, colors and flavours(and oh yeah added vitamins). All her jams and sauces are filled nicely in glass bottles which can be upcycled/reused. You can place orders via her Fb page or buy from QTrove website. Relish the Jamun, Mango , Jackfruit jams, mango spreads , squashes , raw mango murabba and more.
  Location – Mahadevapura

Note- The pictures used in this post are taken from Facebook pages of respective bakers. I have given due respect to their effort by adding stamps to it. In case you are copying them as pictures or as a reference model for your bakes, please share the source and respect their creativity and effort they are putting behind.

They may arrange delivery via various ways(Dunzo, Uber, etc) in Bangalore so please don’t hesitate to place the order because of location 😉

*Sourdough base – Please ensure the proportion/ingredients if you are looking for zero-maida breads.

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