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Welcome to Blake's Bakes.
I'm not gonna be doing any baking today.
These are four great super simple trail snacks
you can make under 20 minutes.
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First up, let's start with the first one,
and it's the easiest one, it's the most common one,
and that's the trail mix.
I love a trail mix.
You can personalize this to your heart's content,
so you want to get your ingredients.
You want to get your Smarties looking things,
or M&M looking things.
You mix fruit, your salted peanuts,
you got your gogi berries.
You can put anything you want in this,
any sort of peanut, any sort of cashew nut, any nut,
any chocolate, any sweety goodness.
It's just up to your imagination
how you want to make your own trail mix.
I've got frog heads, I like frog heads.
All right, you need a mixing bowl,
so you can get all mixed up.
Get yourself a mixing bowl,
and you're gonna put all your ingredients into here.
Just mix it all up.
And it's so easy, super quick to do.
Take a look at this.
Get your mixed fruit, you put that in there.
It doesn't matter what order you do it in,
but I'm gonna go with the peanuts.
These are slightly salted peanuts
to give it a little bit more of a salty texture
when they hits the sweet, chocolaty goodness
of the other ingredients.
So I've got some nice salted peanuts.
Put those in there.
This is my favorite one.
These are the little circular goodness
of chocolate sweetness.
These are to die for,
especially when you've got the salty texture
of those peanuts.
Put them in there.
Now, I'm going for goji berries,
and this is a personal thing because you can stick
whatever you want in it.
These things are cool.
Get all of them in there.
Alright, next up, I'm gonna put my froggies in there.
Look at that.
Now, it's all about mixing it all up together.
Just mix it up.
Look at that!
Hey!
Trail mix!
Easy, simple way to get good enough protein
with the peanuts, the sugary goodness energy boost
with the chocolate, and then you've got the nice fruit.
The chewy bits.
Perfect!
You're gonna get your hands dirty with this one,
but this is for the vegan option out there.
And this is the fig-filled peanut butter bites.
Super easy to make, and the great thing
about these is the figs aren't that sweet.
They're not gonna overpower your peanut butter
when you're doing it.
And the good thing about the figs is they're hollow inside,
so, you wanna get yourself a knife,
and you just wanna make a little insertion
into the fig.
Look at that sticky goodness.
And in there, you're gonna put your peanut butter.
There's no easy way of doing this,
and no clean way of doing it.
Just wanna get your butter,
just plunk it in there.
Just make it all nice and good.
They are gonna be messy, trust me,
but what's mess when you can have a nice good trail snack?
And when you've done filling your figs,
it depends on how many figs you wanna make,
but you can put these in the fridge
and let them frost over a bit
so they're a little bit harder
and you can chuck them in the bag.
A plastic bag.
Great to share with your mates,
great to get some energy on the trail.
Now let's move on to the next one,
which is not as messy as this one.
Alright, this next one's called the nut clusters,
and you're gonna need a little bit of heat
to melt down a substance,
and that little substance is dark chocolate.
You've got roasted nuts and dark chocolate.
Over here, this is just an example,
I've got a hundred grams of dark chocolate.
This is seventy percent dark choc, and roasted nuts.
It's one-to-four.
So one is the chocolate and four part
is the roasted nuts.
So, depending on how many nuts you wanna coat
in chocolate, just go to your heart's content.
You wanna break up your chocolate into small chunks.
This is gonna help speed up the process
for the chocolate to break down
and melt into liquid form.
I've got the whole bar in it, some water boiling
over there, putting it into a glass bottle, yeah?
So that's the good consistent, the good kind
of liquid form we're looking for.
All the chocolate chunks are melted down.
Time to put in the nuts.
Think that's ready.
This time you're gonna be quite quick.
You wanna be quite quick with this part
because you don't want that chocolate
to go cool down quickly.
Right.
Take her off the heat.
Just be careful, it's a bit hot.
Put it on a nice surface like this,
get your nuts, and put a two cup nut in here.
Look at that.
I think that, yeah, I'm gonna chuck all of them in there.
Right.
Mix it up, spoon it out, get all that chocolate
covering those peanuts.
It smells good.
That dark chocolate smells amazing.
Look at that.
Yes.
These, I tell you, are amazing when you're
on the trail.
Now you wanna get your grease-proof paper.
You wanna put this on, so I'm gonna put that to the side.
Got a piece here ready.
Spoon them out, and get as much chocolate
as you can.
You want all that chocolate.
Look at this.
Now you just wanna spread this out.
Doesn't matter, you don't have to individually put them down
because you can just let this dry,
then you crack it, and that's gives you those clusters.
Here, you wanna put this in the fridge.
Let it cool down to a solid state.
You don't wanna be liquid-y, you don't wanna be too soft.
So leave it in there as long as possible
til you feel like it's rock solid.
Then you can take it out and smash it apart.
Hey, last step, you're just gonna break them up.
Look at this.
This is what you call nut clusters.
Look at that.
Nut clusters, perfect energy for the trail,
and they're so good.
Let's move on to the next one.
Okay this next one you need four ingredients
to make this whole thing, and those four are
you want one and a quarter cup of rolled oats,
one tablespoon of apple sauce, unsweetened.
Then you want one cup of nut butter, any peanut butter.
I have almond butter.
The next is one and a quarter cup of raisins.
Next step, and the only step, is one step.
Get your favorite mixing bowl.
Now you wanna chuck all four of those ingredients
into the bowl and mix them together
til it's a nice stodgy, sticky form.
Bit like cookie dough.
So, let's get started.
One is the rolled oats.
That is one and a quarter cup of rolled oats.
Next, is one and a quarter of raisins.
Cup.
Look at that, all shriveled-up grapes.
Put those all in there.
Next, is one tablespoon of your applesauce.
Chuck that in there.
Next is to put the one cup of nut butter.
Any butter that you prefer.
I went for almond butter because it's my favorite.
Chuck that all in there.
Now you've put all four of your ingredients
into the bowl, and now it's time to mix it all together
into a nice cookie dough kind of substance.
So I got my favorite blending slash processing machine.
Let's get it on.
Okay, at this point right now, if you are
under the age, I know, these things are sharp.
These things can cut your little fingers open,
so you wanna have parental guidance
or someone that is at the right age
to work one of these things or to give you
a little bit of an oversee when it comes to it.
And you don't wanna get hurt.
Okay, so when you're about halfway through
blending your whole mixture together,
it gets a little bit dry so I kinda recommend
putting two to three tablespoons
of water in there, depending on how liquid,
you don't wanna put too much in there
'cause you don't want it to be runny.
Look at that.
Now that looks like cookie dough from heaven.
Look at that!
So that's a good consistency.
As you can see it's quite thick and nice.
Look at that, it's thick, good.
Okay this next step is you wanna spoon out
your mixture onto your nice grease-proof paper right here.
This is good, because you don't want this mixture
to stick down to any other surface.
This is gonna be perfect for you
to just peel off and put into a bag and get onto a trail.
So, get your mixture and spoon it
onto your grease-proof paper.
Bit like little bites, really.
And the jelly, you're probably wondering,
there is no jam in that.
No, that's what the applesauce is for.
That is your jelly.
And it's natural sugars.
You haven't got artificial sugars from jam.
You can put vanilla essence into this,
vanilla extract, as an optional extra if you want
to have a bit more of a vanilla-y taste.
I didn't do it this time.
I did it last time, and I thought,
let me try it without.
But you can put it in if you want.
Perfect!
Perfect little things!
Now, next thing is to put them into the fridge
just to freeze them up a bit.
There you go, little peanut butter jelly bites.
You can take these things out the fridge straightaway,
put them in a little bag,
put them in your backpack like everything else,
and have a nice lovely snack on the trail
just as a little pick-me-up.
These things taste so good.
So you guys, these are my peanut butter jelly bites.
These things are to-die for.
Taste so good, full of energy, full of protein.
A great pick-me-up when you're out on the trail
and you need a bit of a boost.
So there you guys are four great, super simple recipes
that take under twenty minutes to make in your kitchen.
You don't have to go out to the shops and buy your stuff.
You just have to get these quite simple ingredients
and make them yourself in your own kitchen.
I'll leave all four recipes in the description
down below so you can copy and paste
and print them off and put them
in your own recipe book at home.
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