Energy Bar Test #1

The Way You Is 

An energy bar by Vivian, Vincent, Augustine

We made our first energy bar with the following ingredients: marshmallows, oatmeal, raisins, dried bananas, and red bull. What we did is, is that we first heated the marshmallows with a heated pan over a fire. Then we added a small amount of red bull into the melted marshmallows and then added the rest of the ingredients. Since red bull is liquid, our product was sort of in a liquid form. So, we let the liquid evaporate a little in the added heat, over the fire. But eventually we decided that we weren't going to bake it, but we would try freezing it instead. So we put it in the freezer after forming a general bar shape (a rectangular prism) and placed it in the freezer. The next day when we took out our frozen bar, it was indeed frozen and remained it's rectangular prism form, but after leaving it out in room temperature, although it remained bar form, it was squishy. 

 

We decided that we will alter the recipe a bit. Since our biggest concern was that the texture of the bar was squishy rather than a firm texture, we think we need to focus more on how to keep a bar form. So, we are going to use gelatin as a factor to help maintain to form. And maybe try blending the ingredients in a bender. 

 

We are still in the laboratory testing...