making energy bar

Today is the first time our group try to make an energy bar. We planned to mix oat, raisins, dried banana pieces, and nuts together and then use malt sugar to fix it into a bar shape. So we first poured right amount of oat, raisins, dried bananas and nuts into a bowl and mix it together, then we started to cook malt sugar in a pot. Because the malt sugar was too sticky to make it spread in to bowl. But it turns out the malt sugar started to scorch and stick on the pot, so we changed our mind and added some water in there, wanting it to be a sugar water instead of liquid malt sugar. And then we poured the malt sugar water into the bowl, the mixture of oat absorbed all the sugar water and turned into a half-oat meal state. So we pressed the mixture with sugar water into a bar shape, and we were finished.

We learned that next time we shouldn't boil the malt sugar in water, instead we will put the malt sugar in a bowl and boil the bowl of malt sugar in a pot of water. That will make the malt sugar become liquid instead of sticking onto the pot. We will also add more malt sugar then last time, because it didn't taste so sweet.