We are working on new eco-friendly packaging and on new labels, and are looking for ideas for product pictures. We'd love to learn how you like your buns! Toasted with some butter? With avocado? Lox? Jam? Cheese and cucumber? Reply to this post or click here to let us know which buns you like and how you like them! If you have a photo - even better! We will provide $1 off each bag of buns/ bread mixes to anyone who responds for your next Hävenly purchase.

Our friend Erika shared how she liked the the Rustic Buns she baked with Hävenly's bake-at-home bread mix. How do you like your buns? Please email us. Photos always welcome (and they don't have to be professional :).

Hävenly is proud to partner with Alpine Modern Café and to share the below Yelp review of our Nordic Paleo Buns!

Near the base of the Flatiron's of Boulder, you'll find Alpine Modern Café. The café is located in a beautiful old stone cottage with a long history of being a local community center - a place to gather and buy provisions. From 7 am - 2 pm seven days a week you can enjoy an exceptional cup of hot coffee, and grab a Morning Raisin Oat Bun or Nordic Paleo Bun to go with it. Or why not try a favorite: An avocado tartine served on Hävenly's toasted Love Bun!

Hävenly's Nordic Paleo Buns. Who would think it's gluten-free? Excellent when you are on a paleo or vegan diet, or simply because you love them! Enjoy these pure and simple ingredients: organic coconut flour, organic sunflower seeds, organic pumpkin seeds, organic flax seeds, organic raisins, organic psyllium husk, baking powder and sea salt. Gluten-Free, Dairy Free and Vegan!

Try an Avocado Tartine on Hävenly's Love Bun at Alpine Modern Café. Oh, so tasty! Let the friendly staff serve you a cup of hot chai or coffee in an intentionally designed space. Enjoy the great outdoor seating at Alpine Modern Café in the wonderful Chautauqua neighborhood!

We are grateful that we got to take a few days off and are now ready to bake again. A new year and a new beginning! Like many of you we will seize the opportunity to make some changes. We hope for more quality time with family and friends, for healthy eating habits, time to work out and more sleep. And healthy for us equals delicious, not just with respect to our own baked goods, but also when it comes to other recipes. We are excited to share the below mouthwatering raw truffle cake recipe with you. We have tweaked a recipe from the Swedish baking book "Smarta Sötsaker" (Smart Sweets - without sugar, gluten and dairy)). So easy to make, so yummy and yet so healthy. A great cake to start 2021 with!

Raw Truffle Cake
Be prepared for this reaction: "What?! No butter, no cream, no sugar? How?". And did you know that Brazil nuts are full of magnesium? A relaxing mineral. So let's chill in the new year!

Ingredients
For the base:
2 cups pitted dates
2 tbl coconut oil
0.5 cups cocoa powder
0.5 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla powder
pinch of salt

For the filling:
1 cup brazil nuts
2/3 cups coconut oil
3/4 cups cocoa powder
4 tbs honey, agave syrup or maple syrup (use more until the filling is sweet to your liking)
pinch of salt

Instructions
1. Start with making the base
Use a food processor to mix all ingredients into a smooth dough/paste. Use your fingers to press the paste into a springform cake pan.

2. Make the filling
Mix all the ingredients to the filling in a food processor until you have a smooth, brown cream. Taste to see that it's sweet to your liking, or add some more sweetner. Pour the cream into the form on top of the base paste. Place in freezer for about an hour.

3. Serve
Take out the cake 15-20 minutes before serving. Decorate with chopped brazil nuts or with raspberries. Serve as is or with some whipped cream or ice cream.

Enjoy!

The days can seem dark in many ways, and in Sweden we celebrate Santa Lucia on December 13. Traditionally children and adults gather to sing together in the early morning to bring joy and light to their neighbors, schools, workplaces and old age homes. This year it is of course a bit different, which is why we are sharing a short video from last year's celebration that SWEA organized in Boulder. We also hope you will enjoy the official annual Swedish Lucia broadcasted by Swedish television. Please know that we think of all of you, and that lighter days will come!

Ris a la Malta photo by Linda Lomelio

RIS A LA MALTA

Ingredients
1 cup jasmine rice
2.5 cups milk of your choice
8 ounces heavy cream
2-5 tbs powdered sugar or coconut sugar
pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cinnamon stick (optional)
toasted almonds or almond slivers (optional)
cuties or orange, or berries (optional)

Cooking Instructions
1. Place the rice, water and salt in a saucepan. Let come to a boil and let simmer with the lid on for 10 minutes.
2. Add the milk and cinnamon stick. Let mixture simmer gently on a low heat with the lid on until thickened, about 20 minutes, stirring every now and then to make sure it doesn’t burn. Let it cool completely.
3. Whip the cream. Add the vanilla extract and sugar. Mix with the cooled rice.
4. Serve with the Ris à la Malta with cuties/orange slices and toasted almond flakes. You can also try it with berry jam.
Enjoy!

Growing up my dad ate his potato latkes savory with lox, my mom sweet with sour cream and sugar. Our kids enjoy both! What is your favorite? We wish everyone brighter and lighter days!

MY MOM'S LATKES RECIPE

Ingredients
2.5-3 lbs potatoes (about 6 large)
1 yellow onion
2 eggs
1-2 tbs potato starch (you can also use rice flour)
1.5 tsp salt
pepper to taste
oil for frying

Cooking Instructions
1. Grate the potatoes and onion (we use organic potatoes and leave the peel on). Use the large shredding blade of your food processor. You can also use a box grater if you'd like to get your daily workout in while cooking!
2. Wrench the potatoes and onion. To get crispy latkes you need to get as much water out of those potatoes and onions as you can. We use a colander to press out the water; you can also try a salad spinner or putting the grated potatoes in a cheesecloth or clean kitchen towel that you squeeze firmly.
3. Add the egg, potato starch, salt and pepper to the potato-onion mix. The potato starch will want to stick to itself so be sure to work it into the mix.
4. Form latkes and fry them. Take about 1/4 cup of the mixture to form each latkes. Heat the oil in a frying pan (we prefer a cast iron skillet) until the latkes sizzle immediately upon entering the oil. Cook the latkes 2-3 minutes per side until brown and crispy. Cook 4-5 latkes at a time without overcrowding the pan.

Serving suggestions
Savory: Serve with sour cream, green onions, lox and tomatoes.
Sweet: Serve with sour cream, coconut sugar or apple sauce.

Enjoy!

These Swedish "pepparkakor" (kind of like gingerbread cookies but better) are amazing and we are excited to share the recipe with you! We just baked them with our kids and no one would have guessed they are gluten-free!

SWEDISH PEPPARKAKOR RECIPE

Ingredients
170 g coconut sugar (or sugar of your choice)
50 g agave syrup
75 g butter or coconut oil
2 tsp ground cardamom
3 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ginger powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp psyllium husk
45 g almond flour
90 g buckwheat flour
135 g oat flour
1 egg (or egg substitute)
(extra buckwheat or rice flour for baking)

Baking Instructions
1. Mix sugar and agave syrup in a small saucepan or smaller pot. Bring to a boil while stirring at medium heat. Add the butter/coconut oil and let it melt. Add the spices and remove pot from heat. Let it cool down until lukewarm.
2. Mix all remaining dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
3. Add the lukewarm sugar-mix in the dry ingredient bowl. We like to use a food processor or a hand mixer for a few minutes. Scrape down the sides or bottom of bowl if needed.
4. Add the egg and finish mixing.
5. Add some more flour if needed to get a pretty firm dough.
5. Place the dough in a container and let it stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Even better to let it rest in the refrigerator over night.
6. Roll out smaller portions of the dough at a time with a rolling pin. We like to have plenty of buckwheat or rice flour on our baking table and rolling pin. If the dough is difficult to work with try adding some more flour. Roll it out as thinly as you can (1/8'' or about 2-3 millimeters). Cut out your cookies and place on a baking paper on a baking sheet (smaller cookie cutter shapes are easier to work with).
7. Bake 6-9 minutes at 340F. Keep an eye on your cookies as they burn easily!
8. Let them cool. Enjoy!

Erika is baking together with Adelia and Nora!

We are proud to be part of SWEA’s annual holiday market “Julmarknad” - this year modified with online pre-order due to Covid. Buy Hävenly’s products on our website and choose SWEA’s holiday market as pick-up location under shipping at checkout. Don’t forget our bake at home bread mixes! Is there a better gift then that of new baked bread? PICKUP at Calvary Baptist Church parking lot, 6500 E Girard Ave, Denver, CO 80224  on Saturday December 5th between noon-2:00pm.

Check out other Swedish holiday treats and gifts at SWEA’s website. The Christmas market is SWEA Denver’s largest fundraiser and the money goes towards scholarships and donation to support the promotion of Swedish traditions, language and culture.

God Jul and Happy Holidays!

With so much turbulence in the world, it's a precious time to gather - may it be virtually or in small groups - to celebrate and give thanks.

We hope that our Love Buns and other baked goods will bring joy and sweetness to your Thanksgiving table. Take off some stress and place your order for an amazing Thanksgiving meal with Fresh Thymes Marketplace!

You can also include your Love Buns in your orders with Boulder County Farmers' Market, Nude Foods Market and with Hävenly.

““The best bread I’ve ever had!”
”

— Ivy S, Boulder.  A happy gluten eating 9 year old when tasting the Love Bun!

Love Buns = A delightful alternative to the standard dinner roll. They're light, slightly sweet, flavorful and surprisingly gluten free! Perfect for your Thanksgiving dinner (and any other day of the week according to our children). There is endless love poured into making these buns and we use only ingredients you can pronounce and enjoy: gluten-free brown rice flour, gluten-free sorghum flour, gluten-free organic buckwheat flour, gluten-free potato starch, eggs whites from humanely certified raised hens, organic coconut sugar, organic flax seeds, organic psyllium husk, sunflower oil, organic vinegar, salt, yeast, and xanthan gum.

At Hävenly we know what it was like not to be able to vote. Voting in a democratic election is a privilege that not all have. Have you voted? We celebrated all who voted by offering a discount on orders during election week!

The picture above shows Katarina, the founder of Hävenly, voting in a federal election for the first time since she became a US citizen! Her daughter Naomi captured this proud moment. The picture below shows Adelia, who is proud to be both a Swedish and a US citizen! The final picture spoke to us and was taken on Pearl Street in Boulder, CO.

Hävenly is excited to launch our bake mixes: Rustic Bread Mix and Morning Oat Bread Mix  - Who would have thought it can be this easy to have your Hävenly bread right out of the oven at home? Buy locally or have them shipped to your doorstep!

"Very excited how delicious it was and how easy to make" 
(Tracy P., Boulder, CO)

"The bread tastes great! The process is very easy and I love the no kneading part" (Kathy G., Boulder, CO)

Due to Covid19 we put the baking on hold in order to catch our breath and to attend to our kids' home learning. During this time our wonderful loyal customers reached out and asked if we could provide them with baking kits. In response we are delighted to provide a super easy baking process AND compostable packaging. It's easy, it's delicious and it's sustainable!

• Oh so easy to mix! You can mix all ingredients by hand within a few minutes (or use an electric mixer). 

• Rustic Bread Mix: All you need to have ready is some water and oil. Each package makes either 2 boules (1 lb. each), 1 loaf (2 lbs.) or 9 buns.

• Morning Oat Bread Mix: This will be a favorite for those who have longed for our Oat Buns and Oat Buns Raisins. Now with certified organic gluten-free oats that we take pride in grinding our self. All you need is water, and raisins if desired. Each package makes either 2 boules (1 lb. each) or 9 buns.

• Lots of bread? There might not be any left overs... because who can resist newly baked bread straight from the oven? However, we do realize you get a lot of bread from each bag. No worries, the bread freezes really well!

• Yes we ship!  Place your order online and have it shipped to your doorstep. We offer discounted shipping on smaller orders, and free shipping on orders over $50 with code FREESHIPPING. 
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• Yes we sell locally!

  • Savory Spice: Order online and choose curbside pickup at Savory Spice at 2041 Broadway,  downtown Boulder.

  • Fresh Thymes Marketplace: We are delighted that Fresh Thymes Marketplace at 2690 28th Street in Boulder will carry our bread mixes!

  • Boulder County Farmers Market: Include Hävenly's Bread Mixes with your farmers market order. Order BCFM2Go for a Sunday pickup at the Longmont Fairgrounds!  https://bcfm.localfoodmarketplace.com/