Apple cinnamon quinoa oat bites

Apple cinnamon quinoa oat bites

Eat them as a snack or for breakfast! (Note: somehow these are nicer a couple of ours out of the oven instead of eating them straight after baking them!)

I found the recipe on ‘Andtheycookedhappilyeverafter’ and converted and amended it from there as you can see below!

Ingredients (serves 1-2, makes 10-12 bites)

• 90 grams of cooked quinoa (is about 35 grams dry)
• 40 grams of oats

• 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

• 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg (I used allspice)

• 1,5 tablespoons of brown sugar (note: I only used about half)

• 1/2 tablespoon of granulated sugar (note: I only used about half)
• 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup (I used honey)

• 65-ish grams of chopped apple

• 1 lightly beaten egg

How to cook 

1. Cook the quinoa according to instructions and drain well. Even easier if you cook a bunch of it in advance to use for lunches an dinner that week!
2. Pre-heat the oven to about 175 degrees celsius.
3. Mix the spices together in a bowl and add in the quinoa and oats.
4. Add in the maple syrup/honey, apples and your lightly beaten egg and mix it together with a for.
5. Spray your muffin tin or lined oven tray with a bit of oil (line your oven tray with aluminium foil to reduce washing up!)
6. Add about a tablespoon in each muffin cup and spread it out evenly. If you are using an oven tray: scoop a bit of the mixture in your ice scoop (load it up about half full) and release on the baking tray. It should be a slightly domed shape. You can squash it down a bit to get more of a flat cookie shape.
7. Bake your bites for about 15-20 minutes in the oven. Keep an eye on them towards the end. You don’t want to burn them!
8. Once you have taken them out of the oven, let them cool down a bit and then transfer them onto a plate to cool them down a bit more. You probably need a knife if you’ve used a muffin tin to release the bites from the sides of the tin.
9. Leave them for a while and store them in a tupperware container.
10. Enjoy!

Additional notes

• First time I made them I ate one immedately after they came out of the oven and was pretty disappointed. It was a bit cruncy in a way that made me feel like I burnt them. When I’d left them overnight in a tupperware box however they had gone moist again and they were yummy!
• Shaped them in the muffin tin the first time, used a ice scoop the second time.
  Although the ice scoop is easier I found the texture of the muffin-tin ones nicer as they were a bit thinner. The ice-scoop ones were a bit too gooey to my taste. Maybe only fill half the ice-scoop next time!
• Not quite sure how long you can save these for but at least 4 days or so!