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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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.
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.
Snickers Birthday + Recovery Tart
This is a crossover between a tart and brittle, using the comforting flavors from a Snickers bar. But instead of eating a recovery snack with processed ingredients and bad fats, this recipe has turned plant-based without any refined sugars. A healthy blend of carbs, fats and protein makes this a well-rounded snack to enjoy, whether it’s your birthday or not.
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.
Baked Raspberry Skillet Oatmeal With Chocolate Tahini Frosting
Oatmeal is an easy, versatile meal that can be served in a variety of ways. Here I use a cast-iron skillet to make basked raspberry superfood oatmeal topped with a yummy chocolate tahini frosting. This recipe is quick n’ easy and can be enjoyed for a pre-ride, post-ride or evening meal.
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.
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.
Baked Peaches N’ Oats For #BetterBreakfastMonth
September is #BetterBreakfastMonth! Start your day with this easy, whole-fruit breakfast crisp of baked peaches, oats, dried fruit, nuts, and spices. Top it off with yogurt and you have the ultimate morning meal.
Banana Coconut Breakfast Bars n’ Bites
Start your morning off on the right pedal with a well-balanced Banana Coconut Breakfast Bar or Bite. These grab n’ go breakfast treats are gluten-free and high in protein and healthy fats. They are slightly sweetened with honey and banana, making them a sustaining, healthy breakfast choice.
Colorado Trail Mix Muesli Cookies
Made with my favorite dry muesli mix, whole wheat flour, honey, peanut butter, butter, and coconut sugar. This is the definition of the perfect trail mix cookie, made to be enjoyed on the great Colorado Trail.
Sunrize Zucchini Banana and Oatmeal Muffins
These muffins are the perfect early morning ride bike snack. Made with zucchini, banana and oats along with a few other simple ingredients - these are made to help wake up your taste buds in no time.
Spring Strawberry Jammin’ and Rhubarb Oatmeal Bars
These bars are a hit of sweet, sour, sugary goodness wrapped in a blanket of crusted, rolled oats. Perfect for wrapping individually and stashing in your back pocket for a mid-ride fruity, snack.