There are several recipes on the CTC website under tramplore. I usually start with one of these recipes and change it depending what ingredients I have. The point is to make a tasty, energy-filled biscuit that is robust enough to not fall apart in your pack. The following is the recipe I have been using lately.
Butter 150 g
Golden syrup 1 tablespoon
Peanut butter 1 tablespoon (optional)
Baking soda 1 teaspoon
Flour 1 cup
Rolled oats 1 cup
Oatmeal or oatbran ½ cup (optional)
Sugar ¼ cup (less or more if you have a sweet tooth)
Salt ½ teaspoon
Sunflower seeds ¾ cup (optional)
(You can put fruit in but I find the lumps of fruit compromise the structural integrity of the biscuits)
Spices to flavour – my favourite is cardamom.
Melt together the butter and golden syrup (in microwave, it doesn’t need to be very hot). Add the baking soda. Add everything into a large bowl. The original recipe says press into a tray, bake and cut while hot. I prefer to give everything a good mix in the bowl and then roll out all the mixture and cut out circles with a glass so they all end up all the same shape and are more efficient to pack. To do this you need to get the mix to the right consistency so I add more flour or milk until I can press/roll it onto a floured bench and it stays together. I then press a glass in to it and cut out circular biscuits about 1 cm thick. I re-roll the scraps and cut out more biscuits.
Bake 180 degrees C for 30 minutes. Sometimes I leave the biscuits in the warm oven as it cools down to make sure they are as dry (light ) as possible.