Yep. Cookies contain carbohydrates, and carbohydrates help provide energy when you’re working hard. Freshly baked cookies also contain more moisture than many dry, prepackaged bars, which can make them easier to chew, swallow, and digest when you’re on the move.

Turns out fuel can perform and taste like something you actually want to eat. Part of the rules of any product we make at Skratch.

We obsessed over the cookie part.

The base is deliberately simple: wheat flour, oats, brown cane sugar, cane sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, sea salt, and leavening. We did the measuring and balancing so you get a great homemade-style cookie without starting completely from scratch.

You add the butter, egg, and whatever makes the cookie yours.

One bag of Cookie Mix, 1 stick of room-temperature butter, 1 large egg, and up to 1 cup of mix-ins if you want them.

Chocolate chips, dried fruit, nuts, a combination thereof. We stop interfering at this point.

Preheat your oven to 350°F. Mix one bag of Cookie Mix with the butter, egg, and any mix-ins until the dough comes together completely. Scoop rounded spoonfuls onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet and bake for 9–14 minutes, or until golden brown.

Then let them cool completely.

Yes, waiting is part of the recipe. But ya know good things come to those who wait.

Whatever makes a good cookie in your world.

Chocolate chips, dried fruit, nuts, some combination of the above — or nothing at all. The mix is intentionally neutral enough to make your own, so consider this less of a flavor and more of a starting point.

Before activity, during long rides, runs, hikes, or adventures, after a hard effort, or whenever you want real food in your fueling rotation.

They’re especially useful for those moments when another packaged bar sounds considerably less exciting than finding a cookie in your pocket.

That’s the idea.

Once they’re completely cool, wrap them in Skratch paper or toss in foil or a baggie individually and stash them in a jersey pocket, running vest, hiking pack, or wherever your snacks live. The original Cookie Mix was designed to make moist cookies sturdy enough to travel without immediately becoming a bag of crumbs.

Yes. The Cookie Mix itself is listed as vegan, but the standard recipe calls for butter and egg. We have separate vegan baking instructions for making the swap.