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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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.
Midnight Minute Mug Chocolate Recovery Cake
Pull together this Midnight Minute Mug Chocolate Recovery Cake together in 5 minutes or less. This recovery treat is made with almond flour, natural sweeteners, Skratch protein powder and plenty of love to help you recover from a hard day’s work.
Coconut Cherry Plum Compote Toast
This toast with cherry and plum compote makes for a quick and easy sweet breakfast bite! Slather it with goat cheese, yogurt or cream cheese and top with vanilla honey, dried fruit, fresh thyme and/or your favorite nuts.
Strawberry Shortbread Cookie Dough Jam Sandwiches
Mouths were WIDE open for these cookie dough sandwiches over the holiday weekend. Take gluten-free almond flour shortbread cookies, add in the middle a base of strawberry almond shortcake cookie dough and slather on a layer of strawberry compote to make this into one BIG cookie dough sandwich.
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.
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.
Zippity Zucchini Tahini Brownies
Chocolatey, melty and gooey - These Zippity Zucchini Tahini Brownies are sure to bring you back to life during or after a hard, demanding ride.
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.
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!
Almond Cornbread with Homemade Peach Ginger Chia Jam, Grilled Stone Fruit and Almond Whipped Cream
Nothing screams summer like this “sweet” of desserts. A little hearty, a little sweet, and a whole bunch of YUM make this a fantastic treat to serve guests post-ride hangout.
Sweet Potato Banana Espresso Recovery Smoothie With Homemade Chocolatey Maca Granola
This recovery smoothie bowl + granola combo is blender-licking-worthy. It gives coffee lovers a hint of their morning brew + sweet breakfast lovers a chocolatey granola to satisfy their needs as well.
Five Minute Breakfast: Peachy Molasses Quinoa Bowl
Good and nourishing food does not have to be time-intensive or intimidating. A little prep work can go a long way and take our bodies along for the ride vs feeling two steps behind. That’s what you’ll get with this five-minute Peaches and Molasses Quinoa Bowl.
Date Turtles With Tahini Maple And Chocolate Drizzle
You’ll be shell-shocked at how easy this Date Turtle recipe is. All you need are some dates, nuts, tahini, chocolate and a few other ingredients to pull this on-the-go bike snack together.
Race Nutrition and Hydration Plan: Co2Ut 100 Mile Gravel Race, Fruita CO
This post includes my race weekend nutrition plan, including pre-race meals, during the race nutrition and hydration, and recovery for the Co2Ut 100 mile gravel race. Get some insights from this plan to help fuel your next big ride or race.
Cashew Butter, Strawberry Jam and Hazlenut DREAM Recovery Breakfast Quesadilla
When I say easy, I mean easy. And when I say delicious, I mean MORE than delicious. There’s nothing more you want than an easy and “more” than delicious recovery breakfast after a ride. That’s what you get with this gooey and sweet breakfast quesadilla.
Adventures & Stories: Miche Loaves, Ciabatta, Hand-Pies and Miles of Riding in Salida, CO
A personal letter to Salida. Dear Salida, you have won over my heart and stomach. Please keep sending hungry cyclists your way so they, too, can take in the endless joys of homemade baked bread, coffee, pie, honey, epic trails, adventures and much more. Yours, always. - Tyler
The Ultimate Trio Of Sweet Spreads + 15 Ideas For Using Them In Your Biked Goods 🍓🌰🥜
These 3 sweet spreads are meant to slather on bread, add into oatmeal, or enhance your baked goods. Learn how to make them in a few simple steps along with 15 ideas for using them in your Biked Goods.
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.
This Mexican Inspired Menu Will Feed A Hungry Cyclist for An Entire Week (Maybe Longer)
Green chile rice, quesadillas, horchata recovery drinks, a variety of sauces, desserts and more. As you know, we cyclists can EAT! So I put together this Mexican-inspired menu you can go off of to FEAST for the entire week.
3 Bike Snacks Featuring Maple, Pecan and Chocolate To Restock Your Fuel Supply
Running low on fuel supply? Make these 3 bike snacks featuring maple, pecan and chocolate for an irresistible lineup of biked goods.