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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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!
Apple French Toast Cakes
A Fall-inspired portable snack made with warming flavors from maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, and apples.
You can eat these Apple French Toast Cakes warmed up with a little nut butter as an early morning snack before a ride or pack them with you and eat on the go!
Bread Omelet Recovery Sandwich
French toast meets grilled cheese in this Bread Omelet Recovery Sandwich. This recipe is a fun and unique way to quickly construct a breakfast sandwich. It’s filling and satisfying, yet light on the stomach, and can be made in just 10 minutes. Customize the fillings to your liking and recover from you ride like a pro!
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!
Breckfast Biscuits for Bruce
These biscuits are made with all-purpose flour, sourdough discard, plenty of butter and lots of love for a friend, coach and mentor that has taught me so much about coaching, cycling and youth development. Read more about our ride together in Breck and how to make this recipe to enjoy during your next ride.
Grilled Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Sandwich with Peanut Butter and Banana
At this point, my tapering period for the Breck Epic race has begun. This means less training and increasing my carb intake before the race. So what better than a Grilled Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Sandwich with Peanut Butter and Banana Slices to kick off this carb increase period? Let’s get baking!
Lazy Sunday Morning Muesli Toasting Bread
The name is implied when it comes to this Muesli Toasting Bread. It’s made with simple ingredients including pumpkin seeds, almonds and dates. Make this Biked Good for a comforting treat to indulge on a lazy Sunday morning after a hard weekend of riding.
3 Ingredient Flatbreads For The Carb Lovin’ Cyclist
As carb lovin’ cyclists, there’s nothing more comforting than bread. These 3 ingredient flatbreads are the perfect complement to a bowl of rice, falafel, hummus, eggs and much more!
How to Make Mini Sourdough Popover Loaves + Sandwiches For Your Next Bike Ride
Soft, chewy, and tangy. These mini sourdough popover loaves and sandwiches make the perfect bike ride snack companion. Learn how to make yours in this how-to guide.
The Best Peary Cherry Zucchini Bread You’ll Ever Eat
Tuck a piece or two of this Peary Cherry Zucchini bread into your back jersey pocket for a fun summertime bike ride snack. It’s full of natural sweeteners, spices and veggies that will have you eating more once you get back home.
5 Ingredient Sourdough Pop-OH-vers
A combination of crisp crust and soft inside makes these sourdough popovers a wonderfully comforting treat for us carb lovin’ cyclists. 5 ingredients. Mix the batter together. Put them in the oven and POP! OH MY!