This carrot cake oatmeal is full of spices and great for weekly meal prep. Top with vanilla yogurt and pecans for that carrot cake vibe, but in a breakfast! Batch cook these yummy oats with shredded carrot for the week and you'll have breakfast ready to go.
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🧄 Very useful ingredient notes
- Carrots - Shredded with a box grater on the side with the small holes. If you can find big juicing carrots, they're often the sweetest!
- Rolled oats - Old-fashioned rolled oats is what I used here. But, you can use quick oats or quick-cooking steel cut oats. If you wanna use standard steel cut, cook them first most of the way, then add the carrots and spices.
Toppings
To make it taste even more like carrot cake, add these toppings:
- raisins
- pineapple tidbits
- vanilla dairy-free yogurt (mimics the sweet creaminess of frosting)
- pecan pieces or walnuts (dry roast them in a pan for a few minutes to bring out more flavor)
This is also really delicious (and beautiful!) with thawed frozen cherries and a little flaxseed on top.
🔄 Variations
Do half carrot, half apple
Instead of using all grated carrot, use half grated carrot and half grated or chopped apple.
Switch up the toppings
Switch out the toppings different weeks or spread out an oatmeal bar, so everyone can add whichever topping they like best.
Some good choices are:
- diced apples
- sliced banana
- diced pineapple
- frozen cherries
- frozen berries
- dried cranberries
- slivered almonds
- pepitas
Change up the spices
Instead of just cinnamon and nutmeg, try adding ground allspice, ground cloves or ground cardamom!
Change up your morning oatmeal
If you're looking for ways to spice up your everyday morning bowl of oatmeal, check out this article → 10 Ways to Spice Up your Oatmeal.
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📖 Recipe
Carrot Cake Oatmeal (vegan)
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 large carrots grated on small holes of a box grater
- 4 cups water
- pinch sea salt
- 2 cups rolled oats old-fashioned
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Bring water to a boil in a medium pan.4 cups water
- Add grated carrot, oatmeal, spices and pinch of salt to water. Stir, bring back to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low. Stir regularly to prevent oats from sticking to the bottom of the pan or from boiling over.2 large carrots, pinch sea salt, 2 cups rolled oats, ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Cook until the oats are thick, about 10 minutes, and the carrots have cooked and are soft. Stir in vanilla extract.½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Top with vanilla yogurt, pecan pieces, raisins and pineapple tidbits for that full carrot cake vibe. Or, choose your own toppings! (see notes for ideas)
Notes
- frozen sweet cherries, thawed, with juice
- diced apple
- diced or crushed pineapple
- sliced banana
- raisins
- flax seed (ground or whole)
- maple syrup or other sweetener
- almond milk or vanilla soy yogurt
- walnut pieces
- pecan pieces
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