Carrot Cake Oatmeal (Stovetop or Microwave)

This Carrot Cake Oatmeal recipe takes all the flavors of a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting and then made into a nutritious and delicious breakfast!. It is like having dessert for breakfast (stove top and microwave instructions included).

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Keyword Carrot Cake Oatmeal, carrot cake oatmeal recipe, carrot cake oats, carrot oatmeal, carrot oats

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 7

Additional Time 3

Total Time 15

Servings Servings

Calories 460kcal

Author Maria Doss

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

1 cup milk
1 cup water
1 cup grated carrot about 1, grated in the fine side of box grater
2 pinches salt

Additional ingredients

1 cup old fashioned oats
¼ cup golden brown sugar or more if needed
¼ cup chopped walnuts
3 tablespoons golden raisins
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Yogurt topping

½ cup plain greek yogurt
1 tablespoon sugar or more if needed

Instructions

Stovetop instructions

Add milk, water, grated carrot and salt in a medium saucepan, give a good stir and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir in oats and reduce heat to medium-low, and cook for about 5 minutes or until oats has softened and absorbed most of the liquid. (Measure all remaining ingredients in the mean time)
Remove from heat, stir in brown sugar, chopped walnuts, raisins, ground cinnamon and vanilla extract. Cover and let stand for about 3 minutes.
Ladle hot oatmeal into serving bowls and top with sweetened greek yogurt. Enjoy!

Microwave instructions

Place grated carrot, milk, water, salt and oats into a large microwavable bowl and stir together.
Heat in the microwave (uncovered) on high for 3 minutes and 30 seconds and then add 15-second increments, until oatmeal is puffed and softened.
Remove from microwave, stir in all remaining ingredients and let stand for a few minutes, until thickened, before serving with yogurt.

Notes

To make sweetened greek yogurt - Stir plain greek yogurt and sugar. Keep refrigerated until serving time.

We recommend serving the carrot cake oatmeal as soon as it is done cooking. Any addition of more liquid tends to move away from the exact carrot cake taste, still delicious though!

Grate carrots in the finer side of your box grater. This helps to cook it faster.

Use greek yogurt – Only greek yogurt along with plain sugar gives the traditional cream cheese frosting taste.

To make it gluten free, use gluten free oats

If you are using Quaker oats, old fashioned oats is same as rolled oats.

Old fashioned oats offer the best consistency. Steel cuts are much harder and will benefit from a different cooking procedure whereas quick cooking will yield a mushy texture.

Do not use store-bought vanilla yogurt instead.

We recommend using golden raisins instead of black raisins for the traditional carrot cake taste.

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