Max S. Dunn

Blog: MaxBars

Posted by: Max Dunn on August 6, 2010 16:16:18

I used to eat a lot of Balance Bars but got tired of paying $1 each. So I came up with my own recipe for gluten-free bars and, naturally, call them MaxBars. Sometimes they actually turn out okay and occasionally friends will ask for the recipe, so here it is:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups non-gluten oats
• 2 cups corn meal
• 2 cups protein powder
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/3 bag of chocolate chips
• 2 cups peanut butter
• Some soy milk

Directions:

Add all the dry ingredients to a powerful mixer and mix them up a little. The actual amount is not very important and you can substitute freely. Use more sugar for tastier ones; eliminate the chocolate chips for more utilitarian bars you will only eat when really hungry.

Next, heat up the peanut butter until runny and blend it in. Finally start adding the soy milk slowly and stop just when the mixture starts to ball up. It is important to not add to much soy milk, otherwise, the mixture gets sticky and hard to work with. Enough soy milk has been added when the mixture will just hold together when squeezed. 

Butter a cookie sheet, cutting board and square or rectangular cookie cutter. Mold the dough on the cutting board about 1 inch thick. Cut out the pieces and move to cookie sheet. Bake at 225 for one hour.

Comment

A new record! 15 minutes from start to end, including cleanup (but not baking time). It costs about $10 in ingredients to make them versus buying BalanceBars for about $30. So the $20 savings for 15 minutes of time works out to $80 per hour - not bad!