Trail Food: Cereal Bars
Posted on 25 Februar 2011
Bars are the best snack over a long day of hiking and backpacking. They need no preparation, give you fast energy and they have a pretty good pack size. The market with cereal bars is very big and most of those who taste well are very expensive. This can be very expensive for a longer trip because you eat more than one bar per day. So I decided to make my own bars with my favourite cereals, fruits and nuts. Another reason is that I wanted to have a 100% organic product according to my ideas. I have used an easy recipe and the bars taste excellent.
Now I want to show you how easy it is to make these bars. First of all you need some basic ingredients:
- 500g oatmeal
- 150g brown sugar
- 300 butter
- 60g syrup or honey
- a bit cinnamon
For the fruity and nutty taste, I have taken the following ingredients:
- 35g dehydrated apricots
- 50g dehydrated cranberries
- 50g dehydrated raisins
- 35g dehydrated apples
- 50g sunflower seed
- 100g chopped hazelnuts
Put the oatmeal, brown sugar and the cinnamon in a mixing bowl
Heat the butter and the honey till it is liquid
Fruit and nut mix
Mix the oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon and the fruit/nut mix together and pour the liquid honey and butter over it
Mix everything with the foor processor or by hand
Spread out this mass on a baking sheet which is laid out with pan liner. After that put the baking sheet into the oven for 15-20 minutes with a temperature of 160°C
Take out the baking sheet and cut the warm cereal mass into short pieces and let these cool down. Put the cool cereal bars into a box and store them into your refrigerator.
Last but not least enjoy the cereal bars with a coffee or on trail. If you want another taste you can add other ingredients. This is your decision. Hope you like this short instruction. Have fun and try it.
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Please,send me some cereal bars… 🙂
What is inside the cup?
@rio
he rio sorry but the bars are empty. made them last weekend, but they were excellent. will test some other ingredients at the weekend.
there’s a normal coffee in my kupilka cup
I’ll definitely try that – thanks. For really high calorie content try Logan Bread – which I got from Sectionhiker.com:http://sectionhiker.com/logan-bread-recipe/
Great photos, Benjamin. Looks delicious, must try these for my April skiing trip.
These look great, I’ll have to try and make my own.
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