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

You are going to love these cozy and delicious carrot cake oatmeal breakfast bars! I initially shared this recipe once more in 2017, nonetheless over time I’ve had a variety of complaints that the bars had been too crumbly and fell apart. SO I’ve examined and re-tested this recipe a variety of events, made some tweaks and I’m LOVING how they turned out! Cake-like with good texture whereas nonetheless holding their kind. The maple cream cheese drizzle on excessive is literal icing on the cake!

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Large easy to make multi perform bowl!
• These bars are made extra wholesome with total grain oats, almond milk and 0 butter or refined sugar.
• Get pleasure from these bars as a grab-and-go breakfast, as a midday snack or maybe a healthful dessert.
• Glorious for Easter brunch and filled with a complete cup of grated carrots!

Substances You’ll Need

• rolled oats – we’re using a mixture of gluten-free oats along with some oat flour to get that delicious cake-like texture. See instructions beneath on the best way to make your particular person oat flour correct at dwelling!
• baking powder – acts as a leavening agent to help the bars rise.
• carrots – you’ll need one heaping cup of shredded carrots, about 2 medium carrots.
• egg – offers protein and offers these bars their fluffy texture and high.
• coconut oil – for additional moisture and fluffiness!  Be comfortable to substitute with one different kind of oil in the event you occur to decide on and even butter.
• milk – I used unsweetened almond milk in these carrot cake bars, nonetheless any kind of milk will work.
• maple syrup – naturally sweetens these bars with out using any refined sugar, you’ll moreover use honey or completely different pure sweetener.
• vanilla extract – extra improve of style.
• spices – a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg and salt

Straightforward strategies to Make Carrot Cake Oatmeal Bars

1. Mix substances.  In an enormous 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 until well-combined.  Pour the moist substances in with the dry substances, add inside the shredded carrots, and mix until merely blended.
2. Bake the bars.  Pour the carrot cake batter proper right into a prepared 8×8-inch baking pan and bake inside the oven at 350 ranges F for 25 to half-hour, or until a toothpick inserted inside the coronary heart comes out clear.  Let the bars sit for 5 minutes then take away from pan and let cool totally on a wire rack.
3. Make cream cheese frosting.  Whereas the bars are cooling, add cream cheese, maple syrup, milk and vanilla extract to the bowl of a stand mixer (or you might want to use {an electrical} mixer) and whip on extreme until simple. Be comfortable in order so as to add in extra milk one teaspoon at a time until you’ve got obtained your required creaminess. 
4. Put collectively bars. Drizzle the cream cheese frosting over the bars as quickly as they’ve cooled and reduce into 16 objects. Get pleasure from!

Straightforward strategies to Make Your Private Oat Flour

To make your particular person oat flour, you merely take quaint rolled oats (or fast oats) and blend them in your meals processor or blender for about 60 seconds until they resemble a efficient, powdery flour – and that’s it!  You could actually merely buy your particular person oat flour on the retailer, nonetheless this system saves you money and the flour will final so 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 pretty easy to measure out.

Prepping and Storage

To Retailer: You could maintain these carrot cake oatmeal bars saved in a sealed, airtight container for as a lot as 5 days inside the fridge. I want to retailer them in a single layer to forestall the cream cheese from

To Freeze: These bars freeze very properly too!  I wish to advocate freezing the bars individually and easily pulling them out to thaw as wished.  When capable of eat, merely pop them inside the microwave for 3o to 40 seconds or simply thaw out at room temperature.  These will maintain inside the freezer for as a lot as 3 months!

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