Carrot Cake Oatmeal – Chocolate Covered Katie

Just like real homemade carrot cake, this healthy carrot cake oatmeal recipe is sweet, flavorful, and absolutely delicious!

Breakfast carrot cake oatmeal

Filling and nutritious, Carrot Cake Overnight Oats give you all the flavor of real carrot cake, with more than half your daily requirement of vitamin A and over nine grams of heart-healthy fiber.

But the best part is that it tastes like eating carrot cake for breakfast!

Oatmeal carrot cake is easy to make at home. It can be made the night before or up to three days in advance, and is an instant healthy breakfast option when you’re short on time.

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Above – watch the Homemade Carrot Cake Oatmeal recipe video

Healthy oatmeal ingredients for carrot cake

Here’s everything you need: rolled oats, cinnamon, yogurt, your choice of sweetener and milk, a pinch of salt, and grated carrots.

For vegan carrot cake oatmeal, use non-dairy yogurt and plant-based milk. The recipe can also be low-fat, low-calorie, and gluten-free.

I like to stir in about a tablespoon of softened coconut butter for richness or almond butter for extra protein.

Sometimes I even add a spoonful of homemade Nutella.

If you only have quick oatmeal on hand, those will do as well. I haven’t tried this oatmeal recipe with steel oats, so I have no idea how this substitute might work.

The carrots can be either large carrots or baby carrots. Feel free to go with orange, yellow, or purple carrots.

Use leftover carrots to make carrot bread

How to make carrot cake oatmeal overnight

Peel the carrots if they are not already peeled. Chop with a vegetable peeler or in a food processor. I like to use the food processor to shred carrots because I find it’s a lot easier and quicker than doing it by hand.

For the carrot oatmeal, mix all the ingredients in a glass. Shake the jar very well, then cover tightly with a lid and refrigerate overnight.

The oatmeal will soak up all the liquid while it sits, and this thick carrot cake breakfast is ready to eat the next morning.

Enjoy cold, or you can reheat the carrot oatmeal in the microwave or on the stovetop. The recipe makes one serving.

If you prefer a baked version, try these Carrot Cake Baked Oats

Adding oatmeal and topping ideas

raisins

grated coconut

Chia seeds

coconut butter

almond butter

walnuts

Or you can crumble healthy carrot cake cupcakes onto the oatmeal.

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