Soft, cake-like ginger bars are the perfect occasional treat. Try for breakfast, dessert, or a snack.
Best Healthy Bakery Spa Recipes
Baked Ginger Bars – Skyterra Recipe
Lake Austin Spa Cornmeal Raisin Scones
The spa’s executive chef developed cornmeal raisin scones to serve a hearty but low-fat breakfast treat to guests.
Pritikin Healthy Banana Bread
This delicious and hearty banana bread is a guest favorite at the Pritikin Longevity Center.
Golden Door Zucchini Banana Bread
This moist quick bread is rich with zucchini, bananas, nuts and dates. Golden Door Spa serves it as a part of a hearty breakfast.
Lake Austin Spa Maple Walnut Squash Muffins
The spa’s executive chef created maple walnut butternut squash muffins as a low-fat breakfast treat. Packs well for hiking, too!
Whole Wheat Applesauce Bread
This Whole Wheat Applesauce Bread recipe takes advantage of low-fat low-sugar applesauce, whole wheat, Greek yogurt, and walnuts.
Pumpkin Pecan Oatmeal Snack Bars
These soft, cake-like Pumpkin Pecan Oatmeal Snack Bars pack well for a portable breakfast, dessert, or snack.
Carrot Cake Donuts with Lemon Cashew Icing – Ranch Malibu
Serve these sweet and tart little donuts for breakfast, dessert, or a coffee break. Naturally gluten free and vegan.
Three Ingredient Pretzel Buns – Skyterra Recipe
This family and kid-friendly recipe for High Protein Pretzel Buns is from Skyterra Wellness Retreat in North Carolina. This bun has more protein than a traditional dough recipe, no yeast is required, and it’s quick to prepare.
Lighter Whole Wheat Cinnamon Rolls – Hilton Head Health
These lighter version of a favorite treat lets you enjoy a whole wheat cinnamon roll with cream cheese icing for less than 150 calories.
Lemon Almond Breakfast Cookies
Lemon Almond Breakfast Cookies store well, travel well, and are better than an additive-filled “snack bar” for sure!
Pritikin Whole Wheat Oatmeal Bread
This delicious and hearty bread is a guest favorite at the Pritikin Longevity Center.
Gluten Free Blueberry Lemon Bundt Cake
This is a tasty Blueberry Lemon Bundt Cake created by the chefs at Utah’s Red Mountain Spa. It uses Cup4Cup brand gluten free flour, fresh or frozen blueberries, and tangy lemon, to create a simple dessert, or a sweet breakfast treat.
Golden Door Focaccia Bread
The spa uses this savory bread recipe for grilled sandwiches, as baguettes, hamburger buns, and skinny bread sticks.
Low Fat Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins
These golden and Autumn spiced Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins are served at the Blue Mountain Mist Inn in the Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee.
Low Fat Lime Coffee Cake
This wonderful low-fat lime coffee cake is great for breakfast, or as a luncheon or tea bread. Try it with a sprinkle of unsweetened coconut as a topping.
Fat Free Sugar Free Cornbread
This recipe for lighter cornbread is veggie rich, but free of oil, sugar, and cholesterol (what you’d find in many cornbread recipes), and still offers that classic, delicious cornbread flavor.
Gluten Free Quinoa Blueberry Muffins
Quinoa Blueberry Muffins are both gluten-free and dairy-free, and make for a nutritious, light and flavorful addition to the breakfast bread basket.
Canyon Ranch Buttermilk Raisin Bread
Canyon Ranch has been serving this coarse-textured, low-fat bread since the day it opened in Tucson. It is so popular with guests that many of them order loaves of it to take home with them when they leave.
Canyon Ranch Low Fat Cornbread
Spa style Low Fat Cornbread. Is there such a thing? A lower fat healthier cornbread which doesn’t require a greased cast iron skillet? You bet there is.
Pumpkin Cranberry Quick Bread Recipe
We find most of the pumpkin offerings at our local chain coffee stop or warehouse stores to be dry, artificial tasting, loaded with sugar, and generally abysmal. We want a moister, more flavorful version, enhancing the flavor of SuperFood pumpkin and healthful cranberries — and this fits the bill.
Green Mountain Carrot Cake
This simple recipe for carrot cake is courtesy of Green Mountain at Fox Run, Vermont, a health retreat for women. How can cake be healthy? Well for one thing, it doesn’t need heavy cream cheese frosting. Just trust us on this one.
Zucchini, Cranberry and Walnut Cake
This slightly sweet loaf is perfect with a cup of tea, or as part of a light lunch with a salad and iced tea. It fits the bill for both something bread-like and dessert-like and it isn’t difficult to have these ingredients on hand if you use “craisens” or dried cranberries.
Heartland Spa Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
This guest favorite Peanut Butter Banana Muffin is from the Heartland Spa Recipe Collection.
Refrigerator Bran Muffin Batter Recipe
Even resorts love this time-honored method of having muffin batter on hand. These Refrigerator Bran Muffins are a guest favorite at Hyatt Regency Kauai.
Saffron Orange Pine Nut Bread
This is Rancho La Puerta’s agave-sweetened take on a traditional Swedish treat — Saffron Buns.
Golden Door Blueberry Bread
This quick blueberry bread is rich with blueberries, orange zest, bananas, and has a nice texture from the cornmeal. Try it toasted for breakfast.
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Cranberry Orange Muffins with Walnuts – Recipe courtesy of The Heartland Health Spa
Rancho La Puerta Spa Chocolate Banana Bread
This is a lighter, leaner version of chocolate-flavored banana bread, courtesy of Rancho La Puerta Destination Spa.
Gluten Free Almond Flour Blueberry Muffins
Blum Center for Health Cooking Classes include Nutrition in the Kitchen as well as cooking gluten free, and cooking with children. Guest favorite recipes includes Gluten Free Almond Blueberry Muffins.
Whole Wheat Lemon Berry Muffins
This healthy recipe for Whole Wheat Lemon Berry Muffins by Green Mountain at Fox Run, a health retreat for women, are a wholesome breakfast treat.
Old World Black Bread
This is a dense, whole wheat dark bread which stands up well to veggie toppings. A slice of this bread, toasted, is excellent with a topping of blended cottage cheese, herbs and vegetables. Avocado Toast is a natural. It’s also good mixed with a lighter whole wheat dough recipe to make a swirl bread.
Getting tired of these brown bananas, and banana bread, but still needed a lower sugar recipe. Thanks!
I wanted to leave this comment to thank you for gathering so many healthy recipes from spas and resorts so that we can recreate this “better versions” at home. Do you have an ebook of all of them in one group for downloading? or by category?
Wanda, we don’t, but what an interesting idea. Perhaps we should create one with the recipes we have permission to share. Thanks for the idea and enjoy your culinary creations.