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Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal

March 24, 2016 by jessfuel 6 Comments

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal

This Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal is the breakfast version of a favorite seasonal dessert, complete with a cream cheese icing glaze. Packed with cinnamon, carrots and nuts, you’ll feel like you’re having dessert for breakfast!

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese Icing Glaze

Every year for his birthday, Nick asks for a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. In December.

I suppose you can eat carrot cake all year round, but it sort of seems like a spring time dessert to me. So even though we’ve had it every December for the past few years (because of course I oblige!), it kind of just seems wrong. I always use this Betty Crocker recipe, with one modification of subbing coconut oil for the vegetable oil, and it’s really good! Even in December! Betty knows her stuff, after all.

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese Icing Glaze

Now that it’s spring, I’m thinking about carrot cake again. And since we don’t really need cake when summer clothes are just around the corner, why not turn that carrot cake into breakfast!? This Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal is the perfect way to get all those seasonal flavors in a healthier way. Breakfast packed with veggies, nuts and oatmeal is the perfect way to the start the day.

I added a little cream cheese icing drizzle for fun, and because it completes the carrot cake flavor profile. Plus, cream cheese is a breakfast food, right?

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese Icing Glaze

This super yummy and filling baked oatmeal is perfect to make ahead and keep in the fridge all week for easy breakfasts. It would also be perfect for your Easter brunch! Or you can be a crazy pants and make it in December… because who doesn’t want carrot cake all year all round?

Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal
 
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Author: Flying on Jess Fuel
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Oatmeal
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • 3 cups old fashioned oatmeal
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1½ cups milk
  • ¼ cup butter, melted and cooled slightly
  • 1½ cups grated carrots
  • ¾ cups roughly chopped walnuts or pecans
  • For the Glaze:
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • ¼ tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Preheat over to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch square baking dish with nonstick spray and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together oatmeal, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
  3. In another bowl, whisk together eggs, brown sugar and vanilla. Then whisk in milk and melted butter.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir until combine. Fold in the carrots and nuts.
  5. Pour into prepared baking dish and bake 30-35 minutes until center is set and edges are just beginning to brown.
  6. Meanwhile, to make the glaze, whisk all ingredients together in a bowl.
  7. Drizzle glaze over baked oatmeal and serve warm.
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Carrot Cake Baked Oatmeal with Cream Cheese Icing Glaze

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Comments

  1. marcie says

    March 28, 2016 at 1:24 pm

    Carrot Cake baked oatmeal is such an awesome way to start the day! This looks absolutely incredible and I’m loving that glaze!

    Reply
  2. Stacey @ Bake.Eat.Repeat. says

    March 29, 2016 at 6:18 am

    This looks like oatmeal that I could get on board with! I’m not generally a fan, but healthy carrot cake for breakfast sounds pretty fantastic so I may need to try it! Plus, the rest of my family would love it cause they’re oatmeal fanatics! 🙂

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      April 5, 2016 at 11:22 am

      Thanks, Stacey! It’s definitely way more fun and tasty than plain old oatmeal. 😉

      Reply
  3. Lydia @ Thrifty Frugal Mom says

    June 1, 2017 at 1:40 pm

    Yum! This looks and sound delicious. We love baked oatmeal around here and I can’t wait to give this version a try.

    Reply

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