Love carrot cake? Then make this Carrot Cake Overnight Oats tonight and they'll be ready for breakfast tomorrow.
Sometimes, I just love a quick breakfast in the mornings and overnight oats are perfect for when you know you have a busy day ahead.
You can mix all your ingredients together in a jar or glass, add to the fridge and then all you need to do in the morning is take out and enjoy.
When I say mix though, I don't mean mix everything together so it is just a gloopy coloured tackiness, you can still make it pretty by adding layers. It looks so much more appetizing this way. Our eyes really do play a big part in us enjoying our food. If it looks good and tastes good, then you are really going to enjoy it all that more.
The best part of all with this Carrot Cake Overnight Oats is that it includes a good amount of vegetables, something that can be hard to add to your plate, especially at breakfast time. I go for a mixture of apple and carrot, the apple adds some speedy sweeteners while the carrot adds some speedy veg, and well it is Carrot Cake Overnight Oats, so it would just be wrong if it didn't contain the main ingredient, right?
I also like to crumble a biscuit on the top of the Carrot Cake Overnight Oats. You can omit the biscuit if you want, but the cookie just bumps it up to the next level in deliciousness. It is totally up to you what kind of biscuit you go for.
This Carrot Cake Overnight Oats, I found sweet enough with the yoghurt and fruit. I recommend tasting the oat and yoghurt mixture before you begin the layering, just to ensure it is to your required sweetness, as you can always add a little bit of a a natural sweetener like Sukrin:1, if it isn't sweet enough for you.
I also add a little bit of cashew milk to the mixture, just to thin it out a bit, as with just the yoghurt it can be quite thick, you can use any milk of choice here, but again, you may need to adjust if you use a different one to me. I love Silk Cashew milk which we get here in the US and Canada as it is super creamy.
Try using a sweet apple like a honeycrisp or similar in this Carrot Cake Overnight Oats, rather than an apple like a golden delicious. You want the lovely combination of a sweet crunchy apple in the layers.
This recipe is also gluten free when using gluten free oats and is vegetarian friendly.
Recipe Card
Carrot Cake Overnight Oats
This recipe is gluten free, vegetarian, Slimming and Weight Watchers friendly
WW Smart Points - 9Gluten Free - use gluten-free oats
Ingredients
- 40g (1.5 oz) of oats
- ½ cup (120ml) of fat free vanilla yoghurt (not Greek)
- 3 tbs of cashew milk
- ¼ cup (60ml) of grated carrot
- ¼ cup (60ml) of finely chopped apple (like a honey crisp)
- ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon of all spice
- 7g of raisins -
- ⅓ cup (80ml) of cubed apple for the top
- little lime juice
- 1 cookie -
- 3 tbs of fat free vanilla yoghurt
- 1 tbs of low fat cream cheese
Instructions
- Add to a bowl the yoghurt, cashew milk, oats, cinnamon, all spice, finely chopped apple, carrot and raisins and mix well to combine.
- Spoon into a glass.
- Mix 3 tbs of yoghurt with the low fat cream cheese and spoon this on the top.
- Gently tap glass on a hard surfect to layer evenly.
- Add the ½ cup of cubed apple to a bowl and toss in a little lime juice (this helps prevent browning)
- Add to the top of the cream cheese/yoghurt mixture.
- Refrigerate and then when ready to enjoy, crumble on top the cookie.
Notes
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Nutrition Information
Yield
1Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 332Total Fat 5.5gSaturated Fat 1.5gCholesterol 5mgSodium 242mgCarbohydrates 60.6gFiber 7.4gSugar 26.1gProtein 11.6g
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