So....I ride my bike a lot. As such, I go through a lot of Gatorade and Clif Bars. These things are generally about $2 if you grab one from the local bike shop and no cheaper than $1 each if you dig around online. I figured they couldn't be all that complicated, so I went online to find out what's in these things.
From the Clifbar.com website; the ingredients for Apricot bars (my fave).
Ingredients: Organic Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Rolled Oats, ClifPro (Soy Rice Crisps [Soy Protein Isolate, Rice Flour, Malt Extract], Organic Soy Flour, Organic Roasted Soybeans), Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Dried Apricots (Sulfured), ClifCrunch (Apple Fiber, Oat Fiber, Organic Milled Flaxseed, Chicory Extract, Psyllium), Organic Dried Apples, Fig Paste, Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Colored With Annatto.
Okay, so I don't have a lot of the nitpicky ingredients like "soy protein isolate", but I figured I could basically wing it with whatever was in the kitchen and probably not poison myself. Here's what I did.
Ingredients for Fausto-Snax©:
[*]Apricots and raisins (chopped tiny in a Cuisinart)
[*]Organic unbleached flour
[*]Organic rice flour
[*]Molasses
[*]Honey
[*]Grapeseed oil
[*]Rolled oats
[*]Rice crispies
[*]Whey protein powder
I put the fruit, oats, flour, crispies, protein powder and about a 1/4 cup of the oil in a bowl. I then added molasses and honey (in about a 3:1 ratio) to the stuff while stirring with an electric hand mixer (you'll want to use the beaters for bread dough as this stuff gets damn sticky) until everything was sticking together nicely and I couldn't detect and dry flour or oats. I then formed the goop into a bunch of small patties (about 3" diameter, 1cm thick) and stuck them in the oven at 350F until the tops started to brown a bit. They're a tad chewy, but really not bad at all for a first effort. I'll play around with the ingredients and post an "official" recipe with amounts of each ingredient if I can improve upon last nights bars.
Note: the bars are mostly comprised of the fruit and oats. I really only added enough flour to give them some body where they'd hold together once cooked. You'll have to mess around with the proportions as I just eyeballed everything.
From the Clifbar.com website; the ingredients for Apricot bars (my fave).
Ingredients: Organic Brown Rice Syrup, Organic Rolled Oats, ClifPro (Soy Rice Crisps [Soy Protein Isolate, Rice Flour, Malt Extract], Organic Soy Flour, Organic Roasted Soybeans), Organic Evaporated Cane Juice, Dried Apricots (Sulfured), ClifCrunch (Apple Fiber, Oat Fiber, Organic Milled Flaxseed, Chicory Extract, Psyllium), Organic Dried Apples, Fig Paste, Natural Flavors, Citric Acid, Colored With Annatto.
Okay, so I don't have a lot of the nitpicky ingredients like "soy protein isolate", but I figured I could basically wing it with whatever was in the kitchen and probably not poison myself. Here's what I did.
Ingredients for Fausto-Snax©:
[*]Apricots and raisins (chopped tiny in a Cuisinart)
[*]Organic unbleached flour
[*]Organic rice flour
[*]Molasses
[*]Honey
[*]Grapeseed oil
[*]Rolled oats
[*]Rice crispies
[*]Whey protein powder
I put the fruit, oats, flour, crispies, protein powder and about a 1/4 cup of the oil in a bowl. I then added molasses and honey (in about a 3:1 ratio) to the stuff while stirring with an electric hand mixer (you'll want to use the beaters for bread dough as this stuff gets damn sticky) until everything was sticking together nicely and I couldn't detect and dry flour or oats. I then formed the goop into a bunch of small patties (about 3" diameter, 1cm thick) and stuck them in the oven at 350F until the tops started to brown a bit. They're a tad chewy, but really not bad at all for a first effort. I'll play around with the ingredients and post an "official" recipe with amounts of each ingredient if I can improve upon last nights bars.
Note: the bars are mostly comprised of the fruit and oats. I really only added enough flour to give them some body where they'd hold together once cooked. You'll have to mess around with the proportions as I just eyeballed everything.
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