bird bar

Love the internet!

I've been searching for this recipe for forever.

(A bird bar is what I often buy from Down to Earth in Hawaii, it has lots of seeds in it)

And somehow I stumbled on the recipe on Wanda Adams' blog

which was posted back in 2011?!…who somehow found it online from a man in NYC who reprinted the recipe from Down to Earth from a very old article from HMSA's Island Scene magazine...

Makes about 40

1.5 cup turbinado sugar (raw sugar or brown sugar)

1/4 cup + 2 Tablespoons canola oil

2 Tablespoons unsulfured molasses

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 Tablespoon egg substitute + 5 Tablespoons water OR  2 egg whites, whisked until foamy

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups uncooked rolled oats

1.5 cup unbleached flour

1/3 cup uncooked millet

1/3 cup sesame seeds

1/3 cup flax seeds

1/3 cup unsalted sunflower seeds

1/3 cup unsalted pumpkin seeds

Lightly grease 12" x 17" jelly roll pan

Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C)

Whisk sugar, oil, molasses, vanilla, egg substitute or egg white

Mix dry (flour, seeds, salt, baking powder, oats)

Combine the dry and the wet and spread evenly in pan

Bake for 18-20 minutes

Cut while warm

NOTES: Because I don't have a jelly roll pan or an oven big enough to bake a jelly roll pan in, I cut this recipe down to make only 10.

I used brown sugar. 

Didn't have molasses so I used honey instead.

wasn't sure if my oats were rolled or not.

wasn't sure if my flour is unbleached

didn't have millet so I left it out.

I only have ground flax seeds so that is what I used

Since I usually bake on my round pizza stone like thingy, I lined it with parchment and scooped out ten-tablespoon scoops

The mixture is quite sticky

My scoops were uneven so some were thin and others were not

AND because the parchment paper was a little oversized, my turntable didn't turn, so the ones at the back of the oven were a little "darker" than the ones in the front

The thicker ones are "chewy" and the thinner ones are "crispy"

The taste is similar to the Down to Earth Bird Bars, will try again and instead pour it out onto my parchment instead of portioning it out before baking