Homemade Power Bars with Cranberries and Ginger

I made some super power bars for the exciting days ahead. I will drive down to Munich for the long weekend to see my younger sister and my friends and of course to go to the Oktoberfest. I am very excited to go.

I have never made power bars before and it’s not very difficult. I got the recipe from Heidi Swanson‘s book “Supernatural Cooking”. I varied the recipe slightly as I didn’t have all the ingredients at hand. I really love to eat dried cranberries and crystallized ginger as a snack. Combining these two in a power bar makes a really nice super-snack.

I always wonder who buys all these different power bars at the gym. They have a huge variety of power bars, but I would never buy one of those. Most have a shiny silver or ice blue packaging and the taste and ingredients don’t really sound natural. Not very attractive. I prefer mine.

Equipped with super powers I am ready for the weekend!

What you need for about 12 bars:

1 tablespoon coconut oil

150g rolled oats

150g unsweetened rice cereal

100g dried cranberries

50g chopped almonds

50g coconut flakes

4 tablespoons finely chopped crystallized ginger

120g rice syrup

30g cane sugar

Vanilla extract from 2 small vanilla beans

1/2 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt

Steps:

Grease a baking pan with coconut oil. The size of the baking depends on how thick you want your bars to be

Mix the oats, almonds, rice cereal, cranberries, ginger and coconut flakes in a large bowl

Combine rice syrup, sugar, vanilla extract and sea salt in a small saucepan, stir constantly and bring everything to a boil over medium heat

Pour over the oat mixture and stir well until the oat mixture and the syrup are mixed well

Spread everything into the prepared baking pan and cool down to room temperature before cutting the bars

My bars were a little bit instable. What did I do wrong? Do you have any advice on this?

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