The Baking Biker – fig and honey biscuits

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Getting fed up with the ubiquitous flapjack on your long rides? Our baking biker, Sarah Freeman, has come up with an interesting alternative to the usual oaty snack…

SARAH FREEMAN Our baking biker is not only a keen cook and cyclist, she’s also an active member of her local Womens Institute in Lincoln. Her delicious and nutritious snacks are certain to be a life-saver on many a long-distance slog.

INGREDIENTS ● 125g butter ● 125g sugar ● 3 tbsp honey ● 50g dried milk (I used skimmed) ● 50g oats ● 1 egg ● 300g flour ● Handful of chopped figs (to taste)

PEANUT AND BANANA VEGAN OPTION ● 50g peanut butter ● 125g sugar ● 3 tbsp golden syrup ● 50g desiccated coconut ● 1 banana ● 50ml sunflower oil ● 50g oats ● 200g flour ● Sunflower seeds for decoration ● Optional jam for mini bites

I was inspired to come up with the recipe after noticing some left-over Belvita breakfast biscuits on my boss’s desk. It occurred to me that something similar could be a good cycling food, and something a bit different from flapjacks. Fig and Honey Breakfast Biscuits

METHOD Cream the butter and sugar, add the honey, add the egg and then the dried milk and oats. Add the flour in batches to make it easier to be absorbed. Once you have a thick dough roll out to about the thickness of a pound coin and stamp out. Bake at 180c for about 10 mins in a preheated oven. This does make a huge amount of biscuits, so you can freeze the dough and use it for other rides. To make life easier roll it all out, stamp out all your biscuits and freeze them so all you need to do is defrost and bake.