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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Bike Crispy Bar(s)
As cyclists, we want to look forward to the food we are fueling with and making sure it’s meets our nutritional needs. So what is something that is energy packed, easy to digest and enjoyable to eat? Bike Crispy Bar(s)! They are light and crispy, made with sprouted brown rice cereal and natural sweeteners.
Mini-Baby Spiced Donuts
What’s cuter than a 1-year-old baby enjoying a mini donut you made for an early morning treat? Her coming back 5 TIMES for more! These mini baby spiced donuts are made with real, simple ingredients, healthy fats and no refined sugars that will keep you coming back for more.
No Fuss Chia Seed Pudding
This no-fuss recipe is one of my favorite bulk food items to prepare. Just 5 ingredients and 10 minutes are required for this tasty breakfast, recovery snack, or dessert! Add granola, fresh fruit, nuts, seeds, and/or jams to top this one off.
Sweet Potato Banana Date Energy Dip & Spread
When you’re in need of a quick pre-ride or recovery snack you make this energy and recovery dip. Filled with a variety of carbs and a little protein and fat, this is an easy-to-digest source of fuel that provides quick and long-lasting energy.
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.
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.
Race Nutrition And Hydration Plan: Firecracker 50 Breckenridge, CO
Over the July 4th weekend I took on the Firecracker 50 race in Breckenridge, CO. Inside you’ll find my race nutrition and hydration plan, including pre-race, during the race nutrition and recovery.
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.
Apple-Saucy Pancake Muffin Minis
Feel like getting saucy on your next ride? Whether you want to impress someone with your skills or bike snack baking abilities, these pancake muffin minis will help give you an edge. They’re sweet, cinna-spicy, and super portable.
The Best Chocolate Chunk Kid Cookies EVER!
When life hands you 24 kids on a Tuesday night mountain bike practice, you give them these cookies. Made with the perfect combo of carbs and healthy fats. Plus, the chocolate chunks will never, ever fail a hungry kid after a day of practice out on the trails.
PB & J Banana Thumbprint Cookies
These PB & J Banana Thumbprint Cookies are made with all the great PB & J flavors you love in cookie form. One bite and you’ll be smiling and grinning all ride long.
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.