For my longer hikes I always make home made energy bars. It would off course be easier to just bring a bag of nut mix with me but, I find nuts quite boring to eat. Furthermore I find them try and they often make me thirsty. Making my own müslibars is not necessarily much cheaper than buying them, but this way I know exactly what is in my bar and what is not.
During the years I have experimented with may different recipes for müslibars and raw bars. Sadly for some reason I always forget to write down the recipe 😦 . So before a long hike I always have to search the internet for a recipe that seems good and then end up improving it some how to make it awesome 🙂
I made some müsli bars for the Großglocknerer hike last weekend and this time I actually noted down the recipe!! Here it is:
- 90g Dried Apricotes
- 50g chopped almonds
- 30g chopped Pumpkin seeds
- 40g chopped cranberries
- 20g sesame seeds
- 30g sunflower seeds
- 100 g oats
- 50 g butter
- 60 g fibre syrup
- A little salt.
Melt the butter together with fibre syrup. Mix all the dry ingredients a bowl and add the fiber syrup and butter. Mix well until you get a sticky dough. Let it rest for 20 minutes. Then cover a oven form with aluminium folio or plastic and press the dough into the form as hard as you can. It really should be compact. Then put it into refrigerator over the night. Next day take it out, cut it into a suitable müslibar size and pack each bar into aluminium folio. Store in the refrigerator. I have had mine in refrigerator for 2 weeks without them getting bad. You can also freeze the bars for later use.
These bars are totally raw and therefore not really suitable for very warm hiking days. In colder temperature they are amazing. They are also not too sweet so they don’t make you thirsty.
Enjoy 🙂 .
