Dec 18th, 2009
Do-It-Yourself Power Bars
I love recipes like this! Take a list of base ingredients, plus what you need to stick them all together, and then play around with the flavours. Ok, so that’s not exactly what it says in the recipe, but that’s essentially what you can do… similar to the granola recipe.
Here, oats, toasted walnuts, oat bran (I didn’t have any so used sunflower and pumpkin seeds), and brown rice cereal make up the base. For flavour the recipe calls for cranberries and crystallized ginger, but I’m not a fan of crystallized ginger so I added some raisins instead. All of these ingredients are held together by a mix of brown rice syrup and sugar mixed with vanilla and some salt. Easy! Took me about 10 minutes to make. The bars are pretty sticky, but they are very tasty and would definitely settle a grumbling stomach. Will definitely do again… maybe with apricots and almonds? I nearly threw in some chocolate chips this time around, but decided to save that for another go – maybe along with some banana chips? Lots of options!
