Easy Carrot Cake Oatmeal Recipe in Less Than 10 Minutes

This Carrot Cake Oatmeal recipe transforms a decadent dessert into a healthy breakfast. It helps you get your vegetables in early, keeps you satisfied until lunch, and squashes a sweet tooth craving. Dessert for breakfast, anyone?

Special days require cake for breakfast, like birthdays or holidays.

Other days (you know those cold, dark, or stormy winter days), the allure of cake for breakfast is the only thing that will get you out of bed in the morning.

Either way, cake for breakfast should be embraced instead of frowned upon. After all, cake can be healthy, right?

This beautiful bowl of oatmeal sure is. It’s full of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein, and won’t leave you crashing off a sugar high mid-morning the way normal cake would.

In fact, the sweeteners I used come straight from nature: carrot, raisins, and honey. This oatmeal will leave you feeling happy and energized straight through until lunchtime.

So go ahead and indulge!

And the next time someone jokingly mentions cake for breakfast you can let them in on your little secret.

The Best Carrot Cake Oatmeal Recipe

This breakfast tastes like you’re sitting down to a slice of Carrot Cake!

But one of the best things about this indulgent breakfast is that it’s full of nutrients to nourish your body and keep you full and satisfied until lunchtime.

Here carrot, raisin, and honey add natural sweetness. And if you like your sweets on the less sweet side, feel free to omit the honey and taste the Carrot Cake Oatmeal before you add it.

Carrot Cake Oatmeal Ingredients

• Carrot
• Water
• Quick-cooking oats
• Raisins
• Unsweetened shredded coconut
• Pecans or walnuts 
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Cloves
• Ginger
• Sea salt
• Honey or maple syrup 
• Pure vanilla extract
• Heavy cream or coconut milk

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Finely grate a small carrot.
2. Add the grated carrot and water to a small saucepan. Bring the carrot and water to a boil, and then let it boil for 3 minutes.
3. Stir in the oats. This recipe uses quick-cooking oats.
4. Cook the oats for about 1 minute, stirring constantly. The oats will absorb the water and get a creamy consistency.
5. And then add in the goodies! Our Carrot Cake Oatmeal Recipe has raisins, shredded coconut, pecans, and spices added for flavor and texture.

Tips

• If you want to use old-fashioned rolled oats, you can increase the amount of water and increase the cooking time.
• To make this vegan, use maple syrup instead of honey and coconut milk instead of heavy cream.
• Make this into overnight oats! Simply mix everything together, and refrigerate overnight instead of cooking it.

Healthy Oatmeal Recipes

When we hear the word oatmeal, a lot of us immediately think healthy. But that’s not always true! Depending on your add-ins, you can turn a healthy bowl of oats into something that will leave you sugar crashing mid-morning and famished well before it’s time to sit down to lunch.

That’s not the case here! This Carrot Cake Oatmeal is sweetened naturally and has a decent amount of fiber to help sustain you.

This recipe is also gluten free (look for oats that are certified gluten free if necessary), and it’s vegan-friendly (use maple syrup instead of honey and coconut milk instead of heavy cream).

More Oatmeal Recipes to Try

• Irish Oatmeal with Hot Buttered Cinnamon Apples
• Oatmeal in a Little Black Dress
• My Favorite Noatmeal (AKA Low Carb Oatmeal)
• Savory Oatmeal Breakfast Bowls with Smoky Garlic Greens and Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette
• The Ultimate 90 Second Microwave Oatmeal
• Strawberry and Coconut Cream Overnight Oatmeal Parfaits

This post was first published on An Edible Mosaic on January 24, 2010. I updated it with more information on March 12, 2021.