Filled with wholesome ingredients, these fruit and nut muesli bread rounds are perfect for a healthy snack.
Do you ever struggle with what to eat for a healthy snack? I know I do. Sure, you can have some apple slices with almond butter or dried fruit and nuts, but that gets kind of boring after a while, doesn’t it?
One day, I was getting some coffee at Starbucks and saw this thing called a Protein Bistro Box. It had a hardboiled egg, some fruit slices, two little pieces of cheese, a little packet of peanut butter, and a multigrain muesli bread round in it. Genius, and so delicious!
My favorite part of the box was the muesli bread round. Muesli just means a combination of fruits, nuts, and seeds.
I had never had fruit and nut bread, let alone one portioned out in little rounds which would make them perfect for snacks.
But at over $5 per Protein Bistro Box, it is not all that feasible for me to get them more than every once in a while, and I wanted those muesli bread rounds in my life!
I searched far and wide for something similar to the fruit and nut bread rounds, but everything I found was either in the form of a whole loaf of bread (and sure, you can slice it, but it dries up quickly and is just not the same) or the taste was just off. So I set out to make my own!
Whenever I’m making bread with yeast, I use Red Star Yeast (as you already know from my sheet pan pizza recipe). There simply is no other brand of yeast I use, because Red Star Yeast truly makes bread baking successful. I tested this recipe with three of their yeasts, and honestly, they all worked GREAT! If you’re short on time, use the quick-rise yeast and cut the rising times in the recipe in half. Basically, you cannot go wrong using Red Star Yeast!
The end result of my recipe testing was amazing. These fruit and nut muesli bread rounds are so delicious. They’re slightly sweet, have a wonderful combination of dried fruit, nuts, and seeds in them (you can mix in different kinds of fruit and nuts depending on what you have on hand – i.e., walnuts in place of pecans, dried berries in place of rasins, etc. ) and they truly are perfect for healthy snacking. They freeze really well too, so you can make a batch and freeze what you won’t use, and then have fresh bread waiting for you in the freezer!
Baking bread can be a little intimidating, but making these bread rounds was really fun and not difficult at all. I baked them on a Sunday afternoon and it felt so good to have such healthy snacks made for the coming work week.
I’d love to know from you – what is your favorite kind of bread or healthy snack?
- Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups warm water
- I packet Red Star Yeast Active Dry Yeast (or you could use Red Star Yeast Instant Dry Yeast, or Platinum Yeast)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup oats
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cups whole wheat flour
- ¼ cup each: dried apricots, raisins, dried cranberries, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds
- Combine warm water (I warm the water in the microwave for 30 seconds-1 minute), yeast, salt, honey and oats in a large bowl, stir once, and allow to rest for 5-10 minutes, until the mixture is foamy on top.
- Slowly stir in the all-purpose and whole wheat flour and mix until dough just begins to form. You can do this with a stand mixer with a dough attachment set on low, or by hand (which is what I did for these bread rounds). It may seem like there is not enough water, but it is once the dough is mixed.
- Add in the chopped dried fruit, nuts and seeds and stir a few times.
- Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead for 5-8 minutes, until the fruit, nuts and seeds have really been incorporated into the dough. The dough should be in one big ball shape.
- Put the dough into an oiled bowl, cover with a kitchen towel or cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise for an hour.
- Turn the dough onto a floured surface and shape it into a large rectangle, then using a pizza cutter or a knife cut the dough into 18-21 squares.
- Line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper.
- One by one, take the dough squares and form them into rounds, then place on the prepared baking sheets. When all the dough has been made into rounds and on the baking sheets, cover the baking sheets with plastic wrap and allow to rise for another hour.
- Preheat oven to 375. Remove plastic wrap from the baking sheets, and bake the bread rounds for 15 minutes, or until the bottoms are slightly golden brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool before serving.
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I just tried the protein bristo and fell in love. You guessed it with the little muesli rounds. So when I found your recipe I was delighted can’t wait to try this out. Thank you
Yay! So glad you came across my recipe!! I absolutely love the little bread rounds and now make my own boxes to enjoy! I always freeze more than half the batch and then defrost them as needed
Thank you The recipe of Meusel bread rounds thank you so much I’m looking forward to making them
Hope you enjoy them!
This is fantastic!!! Thank you so much! I’ve recently re-committed to eating healthier and also found and;immediately loved the Bistro Box. Much like you, I was hoping to find a more wallet friendly solution. I haven’t found a recipe or product similar-until now!!!!
Thank you so much for your comment! I hope you enjoy these rounds as much as I do 🙂
Instant oats? Or steel cut? Making this tomorrow. Wanna get it just right! So excited!
Instant oats or rolled oats, not steel cut oats. Thanks! Hope you love these as much as I do.
Thanks for the recipe! I’ve been looking all over for something comparable to the Starbucks muesli bread. Instead of the oats and nuts I used Bob’s Red Mill Muesli. It’s fantastic!
Thank you so much for your awesome feedback, and YES! Bob’s Red Mill makes an awesome Muesli that can be used in place of making your own 🙂
So how much of the Red Mill Museli do you use?
Can I use all whole wheat flour? Or do I have to mix all purpose and whole wheat?
You can definitely use all whole wheat flour – they might be a little more dense though
When I mixed this together it was really too soft and sticky to knead. I used the measurements above. Is that normal?
Oh that is so odd, I’ve never had that happen. Did you use any different flours? I hope you added more flour to get it more dense so that it worked?
Thank you for the response! I did add more flour, but only a little at a time. I think I over kneaded after that. They’re a little tough but still tasty. Gonna try again this weekend.
Glad the flavor was there! Sorry they didn’t work the first time!
I like you have fallen in love with the Muesli Bread rounds in the Starbucks Protein Box…I had searched the web several months back for a recipe and found none available. This morning again I stopped at Starbucks and grabbed their box. So while eating it I searched again and found your recipe, will difiently be trying this. Thank you!
Thank you – hope you love this as much as I do 🙂
Can you use Gluten Free flour instead?
You most certainly can! I always have the best luck with Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking flour 🙂
THANK YOU. Off to the store I go!!!!
My family was recently given a package of commercially made muesli flatbreads that had raisins and nuts/seeds in it. They were so delicious! Sadly, I ate the last one for breakfast this morning, they are now gone and I miss them already. Equally sadly, I am diabetic, which means I have to be careful about what I eat, so regular flour is not recommended by my Dr. I do have an unopened container of coconut flour, and was wondering if you might have some suggestions as to how to convert your recipe to one that uses coconut flour. We live on a very limited budget, so I can’t afford to make “oopsies” and waste food. Thanks in advance!
Hi Cyn, sorry, I don’t know how to use the coconut flour in this recipe…coconut flour is really weird to cook/bake with, a little goes a long way, and it ends up having a weird texture in many recipes, so I’m not familiar with it, sorry!
Well, I decided to go for it and have a batch doing the rising phase of the recipe. I made a few changes to the recipe (based on recommended usage of coconut flour) which are as follows:
1 ½ cups warm water
1 packet Red Star Yeast Active Dry Yeast
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup honey
¼ cup oats
2/3 cup coconut flour
1 ¼ cups almond flour
3 eggs
¼ cup each: dried apricots, raisins, dried cranberries, chopped pecans, sunflower seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds
Other than the coconut and almond flours, and the addition of walnuts, pumpkin seeds and eggs, I basically stuck with your recipe. The dough is very moist, and looks like it won’t need to be kneaded. Hopefully I will be able to find my way back here to let you know how they turned out!
Thanks for giving your recommendations, hope it all goes well
My teenager is a huge fan of the protein boxes but making a special trip to Starbucks isn’t always possible. And, to be honest, I always feel like homemade is best but, with one of her favorite parts being the muesli bread, wasn’t sure what to substitute. I am so happy to have found this recipe to day. They JUST came out of the oven and are GORGEOUS! The smell amazing, and I am so excited to be able to create a homemade version of her favorite treat. Bonus points that they can be frozen – nice and easy and should be thawed just in time for lunch. Thank you, thank you!
Thank you so much for your awesome comment!! So happy you enjoyed these!
Like you, I enjoyed the bread from the protien box and wanted to see if I could find a recipe, THANK YOU. I hope to make this for the work week coming up.
Part of my weight loss plan is calorie counting, so I used your recipe and put it in the recipe analyzer at VeryWellFit. I did used the whole recipe, in case I don’t make exactly 21 pieces, I can divide the #’s by how many I make.
Here is what the analyzer said: for 21 pieces they are 44 calories each! This is wonderful for me.
I will come back and post my thoughts after I try your recipe.
I was just about to do the same – holy smokes! I ended up making 18 – that’s still only 51 calories each! Thanks of doing the math.
Thank you so much for your comment and doing the math, hopefully you love them as much as I (and everyone else) 🙂
I made these and they turned out so good. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you so much for commenting, so glad you liked them!
I made these for the first time today! They are wonderful, thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for coming back and commenting and letting me know you liked them!!! I love these fruit and nut rounds too, you’ve inspired me to go make another batch!
Just waiting for my dough to rise and I’m wondering after you roll the balls and let them rise- do you press them “flat” before baking? I want more discs than balls.
I do make them flat before baking, hope you loved these.
I do love them! I’ve been giving them to friends who love them too. I flattened mine a bit but I think I’ll flattten them more next time. Thanks for the recipe!
Was looking for a recipe for the little bready thing in the starbuck protein boxes and came across this recipe. These are INSANELY good. I have been struggling with ready to go breakfasts and now I’m STOKED to eat this will the rest of my protein box in the morning. Thank you thank you for this recipe! It was also so easy to make! (I subbed in the Bob’s Red Mill Muesli).
So excited that you like these, thank you so much for commenting. I love Bob’s Red Mill Muesli!
I can’t wait to try these bread rounds! I love the Starbucks protein boxes, but they are expensive. I am also tracking my calories, carbs, fats, and protein. I added all of the ingredient nutrition amounts and divided by the 21 servings. My calculations are for each piece to be 118 calories, 2 grams fat, 22 grams carbs, and 3 grams protein. Still very reasonable and you could make the pieces smaller if you want fewer calories. Thanks so much for posting this recipe.
Hi Janice, hope you love them as much as other readers have!
I think hat Muesli Bread is the only reason I buy the box. 🙂 Cant wait to try this recipe.
Haha, that’s totally why I buy them too 😉 I think you’ll love these!