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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🇮🇹 Italian Fruit + Ricotta Toast 🍞
A super easy breakfast, snack, or even dessert that can be made in under 10 minutes. Creamy ricotta is paired with ciabatta toast, fresh berries, and a drizzle of honey for a satisfying bite.
Quick Packed Lunch for Cyclists: Apple, Nut Butter, and Date Sandwich
Your new favorite way to sandwich. Featuring a soft, chewy, and crispy combo of apple, dates, and nut butter wedged between two whole-grain pieces of bread. Made to keep you full and power you through your next long-haul 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.
Tart Cherry and Banana Post-Ride Smoothie
This delicious post-ride smoothie recipe is made with tart cherries, bananas, and almond flavorings. Tart cherries provide potassium and anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties to help with recovery and sleep. Bananas provide an extra boost of carbs while yogurt and almond butter provide protein - all to help refuel depleted muscles.
Chocolate Quinoa Breakfast Bowl (or mug!)
Chocolate and quinoa pair up in this easy-to-make dish that can be eaten for breakfast or as a post-ride meal.
Chocolate Muesli Date Shake
Using a Chocolate Muesli Bircher Recipe for this shake provides the ideal base for what you need when it comes to recovery: Carbs and protein. Adding in the banana and dates provides another layer of carbs while cinnamon contains anti-inflammatory properties, which can help ease swelling.
Rice Pudding with Cinnamon Sugar Syrup
This is a quick and healthy breakfast or recovery meal recipe you can make on the stovetop in as little as ten 10 minutes. Choose your desired toppings and drizzle on top with cinnamon sugar syrup for a satisfying sweet snack.
One-Pot Blueberry and Banana Coconut Quinoa Porridge
I was inspired to recreate this recipe after visiting Cool River Coffee in Breckenridge for breakfast after a cool and crisp morning spent nordic skiing. Quinoa is a great alternative to oatmeal for a hot, toasty breakfast. In this recipe, the quinoa is boiled with coconut milk and served with two kinds of fruits and seeds for a sweet, filling start to your morning.
5 Cozy Recipe Ideas For Cyclists During the Off-Season
The nutritional offseason gives us a period of time to slow down, get back in the kitchen, and incorporate more whole foods, veggies and fruits back into our diets. This post gives you 5 recipe ideas to help kick-start your nutritional offseason. It's filled with whole food recipe ideas to get your body and mind ready for the upcoming 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.
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.
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.
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.
Team Summit: A Look Back at A Summer Full of Cycling, Food and Family
When I first signed up for the XC MTB head coach job at Team Summit, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. In the end, getting the opportunity to coach this team has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. From practices and races to team camp trips and plenty of good food, this post gives a recap of the AMAZING bike season we had together as a team and sums up the mission behind Biked Goods: Creating community through cycling, nutrition and youth development services and experiences.
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.
Fall Classic AppleDoodle Cookies
These Fall Classic Appledoodle cookies are the perfect bike snack to give you a little warm-up as you're out on a fall bike ride. They’re made with Pamela’s Pancake and Baking flour mix, coconut sugar, cinnamon, Granny Smith apples hand-picked from Paonia Orchard and a little melted butter to start fattening you up for the winter ;)
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.