Healthy Carrot Cake Bars
Healthy Carrot Cake Bars made with almond flour, no refined sugars, and all the carrot cake flavors and textures we love with a healthy cream cheese frosting to match!
Servings: 9 bars
Calories: 187kcal
Ingredients
- 2 large eggs
- 1/3 cup maple syrup or honey
- 2 tbsp any milk
- 1 tbsp any mild tasting oil
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cups super fine blanched almond flour
- 3/4 cups carrots shredded
- 1/2 cups walnuts or pecans + more for garnish chopped
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 3 tbsp unsweetened coconut flakes
- Cooking spray I use Misto
- 1 1/2 cups healthy cream cheese frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line square 8 x 8 baking dish with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, add eggs, maple syrup, milk, oil, vanilla, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Whisk. Add almond flour, carrots, walnuts, raisins and coconut flakes. Stir well to combine.
- Transfer batter into previosuly prepared pan, level with spatula and bake on a middle rack of the oven for 30-35 minutes or until edges and top are nice golden brown.
- While cake is baking, make the frosting and refrigerate.
- Remove cake from the oven, wait 5 minutes and then holding onto parchment paper flaps remove cake onto a cooling rack to cool off completely before frosting.
- Spread frosting on top of the cake and garnish with extra walnuts. Cut into 9 bars and enjoy!
Notes
- Store: Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
- Freeze: I like to freeze carrot bars on a baking tray (not touching) until solid and then transfer them to an airtight container for up to 3 months.
- Almond flour: I recommend sticking to this flour because it's quite different than others.
- Oil: I used avocado oil. Light olive oil, melted coconut oil or butter are great too.
- Sweetener: You can use honey or any other liquid sweetener (dry can work as well), just keep in mind taste might change (especially with honey).
- Add-ins: Like raisins, walnuts and coconut flakes are for flavor, customizable and can be omitted or swapped (allergies and taste).
- Frosting: You can also use my healthy buttercream frosting or all Greek yogurt frosting.
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar | Calories: 187kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 102mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 12g