Carrot Cake Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

These EASY Carrot Cake Oatmeal Breakfast Bars make a fast on-the-go breakfast, snack or healthy dessert made with zero refined sugar and drizzled with a scrumptious maple cream cheese frosting! 

You are going to like these cozy and scrumptious carrot cake oatmeal breakfast bars! I initially shared this recipe again in 2017, however through the years I’ve had a couple of complaints that the bars had been too crumbly and fell aside. SO I’ve examined and re-tested this recipe a couple of occasions, made some tweaks and I’m LOVING how they turned out! Cake-like with nice texture whereas nonetheless holding their form. The maple cream cheese drizzle on high is literal icing on the cake!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Super straightforward to make multi functional bowl!
• These bars are made more healthy with complete grain oats, almond milk and nil butter or refined sugar.
• Enjoy these bars as a grab-and-go breakfast, as a noon snack or perhaps a healthy dessert.
• Perfect for Easter brunch and full of an entire cup of grated carrots!

Ingredients You’ll Need

• rolled oats – we’re utilizing a mix of gluten-free oats together with some oat flour to get that scrumptious cake-like texture. See directions beneath on the best way to make your individual oat flour proper at house!
• baking powder – acts as a leavening agent to assist the bars rise.
• carrots – you’ll want one heaping cup of shredded carrots, about 2 medium carrots.
• egg – provides protein and provides these bars their fluffy texture and top.
• coconut oil – for extra moisture and fluffiness!  Feel free to substitute with one other sort of oil in the event you desire and even butter.
• milk – I used unsweetened almond milk in these carrot cake bars, however any sort of milk will work.
• maple syrup – naturally sweetens these bars with out utilizing any refined sugar, you could possibly additionally use honey or different pure sweetener.
• vanilla extract – additional increase of taste.
• spices – a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and salt

How to Make Carrot Cake Oatmeal Bars

1. Mix substances.  In a big bowl, whisk collectively the oat flour, rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.  In a separate bowl, whisk collectively egg, milk, maple syrup, coconut oil and vanilla and whisk till well-combined.  Pour the moist substances in with the dry substances, add within the shredded carrots, and blend till simply mixed.
2. Bake the bars.  Pour the carrot cake batter right into a ready 8×8-inch baking pan and bake within the oven at 350 levels F for 25 to half-hour, or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out clear.  Let the bars sit for five minutes then take away from pan and let cool fully on a wire rack.
3. Make cream cheese frosting.  While the bars are cooling, add cream cheese, maple syrup, milk and vanilla extract to the bowl of a stand mixer (or you need to use an electrical mixer) and whip on high till clean. Feel free so as to add in additional milk one teaspoon at a time till you may have your required creaminess. 
4. Prepare bars. Drizzle the cream cheese frosting over the bars as soon as they’ve cooled and lower into 16 items. Enjoy!

How to Make Your Own Oat Flour

To make your individual oat flour, you merely take quaint rolled oats (or prompt oats) and mix them in your food processor or blender for about 60 seconds till they resemble a fantastic, powdery flour – and that’s it!  You can in fact simply purchase your individual oat flour on the retailer, however this technique saves you cash and the flour will last as long as three months in your pantry.  The ratio for oat flour is one cup of oats = one cup of oat flour so it’s fairly straightforward to measure out.

Prepping and Storage

To Store: You can maintain these carrot cake oatmeal bars saved in a sealed, hermetic container for as much as 5 days within the fridge. I prefer to retailer them in a single layer to forestall the cream cheese from

To Freeze: These bars freeze rather well too!  I like to recommend freezing the bars individually and simply pulling them out to thaw as wanted.  When able to eat, simply pop them within the microwave for 3o to 40 seconds or just thaw out at room temperature.  These will maintain within the freezer for as much as 3 months!

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