# Recipe for those dense, puck-like oat cakes found at coffee houses/health food stores **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699 "2004-10-17T19:07:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/1 "2004-10-17T19:07:56Z")
These are popular on the west coast but are turning up other places, too. They’re dense, slightly sweet, hockey-puck-like oat cakes sometimes made with dried fruit and nuts. They don’t look very difficult to make and have few ingredients, but are so dense, they almost seem compressed. The ones I buy are cylindrical, with the circumference of a typical food can (like Boston brown bread in that regard), and are about an inch and a half thick. They aren’t mass produced–they’re made locally. It’s clear that the oats are pulverized in a food processor first, and there seems to be very little moisture added. I’d like to find a recipe if anyone has one. Or, barring that, is anyone else out there eating these things? ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/2 "2004-10-17T19:42:36Z")
Google has thousands. Try these searches: [“Oat cakes” recipe](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22oat+cakes%22+recipe&btnG=Search) [Oatcakes recipe](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=oatcakes+recipe&btnG=Search) The first search seems to give results I’d probably prefer, but the second may be closer to what you want. I don’t go to health-food or coffee shops very often, and haven’t noticed oatcakes. (I usually go for the [Nanaimo bars](http://www.city.nanaimo.bc.ca/visitors/index_inside.asp?id=189&parent=7&sub_collection=11) instead of anything the least bit healthy. Check your blood sugar at the door.) ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/3 "2004-10-17T20:38:37Z")
Thanks, but I’ve already done those searches. There a million kinds of “oat cakes,” and none of those are the ones I’m talking about. The closest I found was by a woman who tried to “reverse engineer” the oat cakes in question. ---
**Author:** ![Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Live_Better_Electrically)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/4 "2004-10-17T20:41:30Z")
[Here](http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/desserts/apricot-oat-cakes) is the recipe in question, for anyone who’s interested. IMO, this recipe seems to have too many ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/5 "2004-10-17T20:50:14Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > Google has thousands. Try these searches: > > [“Oat cakes” recipe](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22oat+cakes%22+recipe&btnG=Search) > > [Oatcakes recipe](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=oatcakes+recipe&btnG=Search) > > The first search seems to give results I’d probably prefer, but the second may be closer to what you want. I don’t go to health-food or coffee shops very often, and haven’t noticed oatcakes. (I usually go for the [Nanaimo bars](http://www.city.nanaimo.bc.ca/visitors/index_inside.asp?id=189&parent=7&sub_collection=11) instead of anything the least bit healthy. Check your blood sugar at the door.) Something’s wrong with the recipe-I don’t see hay and cow patties listed!! :eek: :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![plantdevotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@plantdevotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plantdevotion)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/6 "2012-11-16T16:47:44Z")
For years I searched for this recipe myself… failed countless times trying to recreate it… and now finally I’ve created a recipe that works!! You can find it here, with a step-by-step photo-guide: [Oat Cake Recipe at Plant Devotion](http://plantdevotion.com/oat-cake-recipe/) I hope it works for you, too! \<3, ally. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-those-dense-puck-like-oat-cakes-found-at-coffee-houses-health-food-stores/269699/7 "2012-11-16T19:20:37Z")
> [@Live\_Better\_Electrically](#): > > [Here](http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/desserts/apricot-oat-cakes) is the recipe in question, for anyone who’s interested. IMO, this recipe seems to have too many ingredients. Not really. The recipe holds together well for what it is. Looks good, though I might use dried cranberries instead, not fond of the whole apricot/peach/nectarine stonefruit family when dried.