Real-Food Recipes for Cyclists
Find delicious, easy-to-prepare, real food recipes to help your performance on and off the bike. Each recipe includes ingredient lists, simple instructions, and baker’s tips and tricks to make baking in the kitchen a joy. New recipes are added every other week. Subscribe to the Bakin’ Biker’s Sampler Club get new recipes + nutrition resources.
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4-Ingredient Salted Date Caramel Energy Chews
These Salted Date Caramels are a naturally sweet, chewy treat packed with quick-digesting energy and a touch of salt to replenish electrolytes lost during rides.
The combination of Medjool dates, tahini, and honey creates a balanced blend of carbohydrates, healthy fats, and natural sugars, making these caramels an ideal pre-ride snack or mid-ride fuel.
Simple to make, easy to store, and perfect for on-the-go fueling - go make them!
Happy Ginger Coconut Cashew Bars
A spiced-up twist on the original Happy Biker Bars, these Happy Ginger Coconut Cashew Bars bring together the warming zing of ginger, the nutty richness of cashew butter, and the tropical sweetness of shredded coconut.
With a chewy, golden-brown texture, these bars are designed for easy packing—perfect for fueling your next adventure, whether on the bike or on the go!
Chocolate Sweet Potato Kick Cakes
Filled with sweet potato, Medjool dates, almonds, and ground espresso, these tiny little cakes pack a punch!
Whether you're looking for a nutrient-dense snack to fuel your cycling adventures or a midday snack, these Chocolate Sweet Potato Kick Cakes deliver on all fronts.
Happy Biker Energy Bars
Introducing The Happy Biker Bar.
A versatile, wholesome bar packed with cashews, cashew butter, oats, natural sweeteners, and a choice of mix-ins. A sweet, yet subtly savory bite baked for pure happiness.
Enjoy as a mid-morning snack, portable ride snack, or evening dessert.
Eat Good. Be Happy :)
Date and Pecan Coffee Bread
In celebration of the launch of the Bakin’ Biker ’25 Cookbook, I’d like to share one of my favorite recipes from the new edition: Date and Pecan Coffee Bread. This delightful quick bread is perfect for early mornings, snacks between meals, a portable snack for your rides, or even as a comforting nighttime dessert.
With its sweet juicy Medjool dates, freshly brewed coffee, and crunchy pecans, this bread brings warmth and joy to any moment.
Go make this recipe, NOW!
Sweet Potato Almond Butter Cake
This Sweet Potato Almond Butter Cake features a simple and irresistible combination of sweet potato, almond butter, and maple syrup, resulting in a lightly sweet cake. Adding lemon zest and dried fruits gives this cake a refreshing twist.
It’s best enjoyed as a pre or post-ride snack or shared around the table during Thanksgiving festivities.
Granola Cashew Cream Bars
My Granola Cashew Cream Bars are made with a crunchy granola base, filled with a smooth and creamy cashew cream, and topped with a layer of dark chocolate. They are perfectly sweet, combining three delicious layers for a homemade alternative to store-bought candy bars.
The Ultimate 5-Minute Cycling Ride Pie
Ride Pie. A pie you make, bake, and take with you on a cycling ride. A Ride Pie isn’t your ordinary pie, though. It’s a pie made from sliced bread and your choice of filling, baked to buttery perfection. The best part? It takes only 5 minutes to prep so you can spend more time riding, and less time pie-ing!
20 Homemade Cycling Snacks + Recipes To Fuel Your Next Ride
Since starting Biked Goods, I’ve been on a quest to bake, eat and share good homemade foods with the cycling community. Along my journey, I’ve made different cycling snacks for races, adventure trips, and the kids I mountain bike coach for at Team Summit. Here are 20 of my homemade cycling snacks + recipes to give a try on your next ride.
Puffed Rice Cakes with Maple Balsamic Strawberries, Goat Cheese, and Basil
A quick, easy snack featuring puffed rice cakes and strawberries roasted over the stove in a maple balsamic glaze. Eat as a busy morning breakfast, a snack between meals, or a pre or post-ride snack.
10 Indoor Cycling Nutrition and Hydration Tips
With the rise of technologies like Zwift, Rouvy and TrainerRoad, many of us have been churning out our miles on the indoor trainer. But are you getting the best out of each session with your nutrition and hydration? This blog features 10 indoor cycling tips to help dial in your nutrition, hydration, and recovery to make the most of your indoor training.
Take 5 Date “Candy” Bars
A quick n’ easy pre-ride or post-ride snack that tastes like a Take 5 Candy bar, but BETTER! They have a chewy, caramel-y, and crunchy texture with just the right amount of sweetness and saltiness to satisfy your “candy” bar cravings.
Smart Bellies Holiday Fundraiser: Baking For 400 Kids In Summit County, CO
More than 1 in 6 children don’t have consistent access to nutritious food. Smart Bellies and Biked Goods are not okay with that. So we teamed up to provide nutritious baked goods to over 400 children in Summit County, CO this holiday season.
Blueberry and Banana Superboost Muffins
These muffins offer a convenient source of carbs that's perfect for a pre-or post-ride snack to give you an extra boost. They're packed full of fruits and are sweetened with maple syrup and apple juice instead of refined sugar. In addition, almond meal, brown rice flour and whole-grain oats replace nutrient-stripped white flour. These are one of my go-to muffins—nourishing and sweetly satisfying for an easy grab-n-bike snack.
Bestslope Breakfast Cookies
When I walk into Bestslope Coffee Company in Fruita, CO I am greeted by the aromas of freshly roasted coffee, friendly staff and one of their staple baked goods: Breakfast Cookies! On a quest to re-create this cookie, I reached out to Devan, the bakery manager at Bestslope, to find out the ingredients she used to make her breakfast cookies. Find out how they turned out.
Figgin’ Awesome Date Bars
I had an itch to use this unique plant to bake me some goods for my trip out west to Fruita and out of the oven came these Figgin’ Awesome Date Bars. Oats, spices, flour and brown rice syrup come together to create a brownie-like crust. Then dried mission figs blended together with dates, orange zest, coconut sugar and some more spices made the middle filling for these friggin delicious bars.
No-Bake Date “Macaroons”
These No-Bake Date “Macaroon” Cookies are a magical, versatile snack made for munchin’ on however you’d like. Using ingredients similar to the well-known macaroon cookie, this version adds a few alternatives to make a guilt-free, no-bake cookie.
Apple Pie Stuffed Muesli Cups
After a stop to a local farm stand, I came home with a bushel of apples from Palisade. From there, the Apple Stuffed Muesli Cup Pie was born. Made with a fresh apple filling stuffed into the middle of muesli bite made with rolled oats, honey, coconut sugar and butter. MMMMM.
Mountain Sunrise Date Cereal Bars
These cereal bars are made with 6 simple ingredients and can be whipped up in 10 minutes. They wrap easily for an on-the-go bike breakfast snack that will help you catch plenty of early morning mountain sunrises.