This carrot cake baked oats recipe is not to be missed! It tastes like you are having carrot cake for breakfast! What’s not to love about that?

We have put our spin on baked oats by adding the wonderful flavors of carrot cake to them. Plus, this recipe is healthy and the perfect easy breakfast. Just grate a carrot, blend all of the ingredients, bake in the oven, and enjoy! Also, this would be delicious topped with our cream cheese carrot cake frosting!

What Are Baked Oats?

Baked oats have become increasingly popular on TikTok and social media because they are super easy to make and are the perfect healthy breakfast. It’s also a perfect gluten-free recipe! To make them, just blend all of the ingredients and bake the batter in the oven. Then, you have the most delicious baked oats that taste just like cake. We put our own spin on this trend by making carrot cake baked oats!

Why You Will Love Carrot Cake Baked Oats

They are an easy and healthy breakfast.
Everything comes together in the blender.
Just bake and enjoy!
You can make a single serving or as many as you would like.
Best of all we have added the flavors of carrot cake to these baked oats!

Carrot Cake Baked Oats Ingredients

Rolled Oats Or Quick Oats: The rolled oats or quick oats will be blended to make oat flour and are the base of this recipe.
Baking Powder: To help the baked oats rise in the oven.
Nutmeg, Salt, Cinnamon, Sweetener of Choice, Vanilla: To help give the baked oats delicious flavor and sweeten them.
Unsweetened Applesauce: This is used in place of oil to keep this recipe lightened up and healthy.
Milk Of Choice: Feel free to use your milk of choice in this recipe. We used unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
Egg: To help the baked oats batter come together and rise in the oven.
Freshly Grated Carrots: This is to make carrot cake baked oats!

How To Make Carrot Cake Baked Oats

These carrot cake baked oats are easy to make! First, clean, peel, and carefully grate one carrot. Then, place the rolled oats or quick oats in a blender and blend them until you have oat flour. Next, add the baking powder, nutmeg, salt, cinnamon, and sugar or sweetener of choice to the blender and blend.

After that, add the unsweetened applesauce, vanilla extract, freshly grated carrots, unsweetened vanilla almond milk, and egg to the blender and blend until everything is combined.

Then, lightly grease an oven-safe ramekin and pour the baked oats batter into the ramekin.

Bake the carrot cake baked oats and enjoy!

Carrot Cake Baked Oats Toppings

These carrot cake baked oats are perfect on their own or with some toppings. Feel free to add some whipped cream to the top along with a dash of cinnamon. We love using dairy-free coconut whipped cream, TruWhip, and CocoWhip because they have better quality ingredients. We especially love Cocowhip because it has a light coconut flavor, is organic, non-GMO, and vegan. Additionally, feel free to top these oats with some 0-fat Greek yogurt, walnuts, or your favorite toppings. For an extra treat, spread some of our cream cheese carrot cake frosting on these baked oats!

Are Baked Oats Healthy?

Yes, baked oats are healthy. We have lightened up this carrot cake baked oats recipe by using unsweetened applesauce in place of oil. Also, we used unsweetened vanilla almond milk instead of regular milk.

How Long Does It Take To Cook Baked Oats?

Bake these baked oats in the oven at 350 degrees F for 27-30 minutes. You will know that your baked oats are done when they have risen and a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the oats. Make sure the center of your baked oats is cooked and isn’t soggy.

How Many Carrot Cake Baked Oats Servings To Make?

This recipe is great because you can make as many servings of carrot cake baked oats as you would like. This recipe makes one serving of baked oats, but feel free to make as many as you would like. These carrot cake baked oats are the perfect easy breakfast.

What Blender To Use For Carrot Cake Baked Oats?

I have been obsessed with my Blendtec Blender for years – I think it is magic! I seriously use it every day. It’s perfect for this carrot cake baked oats recipe. It is such an amazing blender the motor is very strong and will literally blend anything. A regular blender over time does not have the power to last.

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How To Grate The Carrots

We used one medium-sized carrot in this recipe, which is about 1/3 cup of finely grated carrots. Make sure to clean, peel, and carefully grate one carrot. If your carrots are very finely grated you can mix them into the batter once all of the other ingredients are combined as opposed to blending them in. However, if your carrots are not very finely grated, just blend them with the rest of the ingredients. This is important because you want the carrots to be fine enough to cook. You don’t want raw carrots in your baked oats.

Which Milk To Use

This baked oats recipe works with your milk of choice. We like to use unsweetened vanilla almond milk, regular unsweetened almond milk, or unsweetened oat milk in this recipe.

Which Oats To Use For Baked Oats

Baked oats can be made with old-fashioned oats, rolled oats, or quick oats. Also, feel free to use oat flour if you have it on hand. If not, you will blend the rolled oats to make oat flour. Keep in mind that steel-cut oats do not work well in this recipe as they do not blend into a fine enough consistency. We like using quick oats because they have produced the fluffiest baked oats.

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