healthy carrot cake bars with greek yogurt frosting

Healthy carrot cake bars with greek yogurt frosting is a Mediterranean recipe that serves 13. One serving contains 323 calories, 7g of protein, and 13g of fat. For 71 cents per serving, this recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Plenty of people really liked this side dish. A mixture of ground nutmeg, greek yogurt, coconut, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. This recipe is liked by 108 foodies and cooks. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Easter. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a lacto ovo vegetarian diet. It is brought to you by Greens And Chocolate. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 54%. This score is good. Try Healthy Carrot Cake Mug Cake with Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting, Carrot Cake Donuts with Yogurt Frosting, and carrot cake greek yogurt pancakes for similar recipes.

Servings: 13

 

Ingredients:

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

4 cups grated carrots

2 tsp cinnamon

1/2-1 cup shredded coconut, depending on how much coconut you like

1/4 cup coconut oil, melted

8 oz cream cheese

4 eggs

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

8 oz Greek yogurt

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1 cup powdered sugar (or more if you want it sweeter)

1 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

1 cup unsweetened applesauce

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

Equipment:

whisk

bowl

oven

frying pan

toothpicks

Cooking instruction summary:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9x13" pan with cooking spray. Set aside.In large bowl combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir well to combine.In smaller bowl, whisk together sugar, applesauce, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract. Fold in carrots.Add wet carrot mixture to flour mixture and stir until just combined.Fold in coconut. Pour into prepared pan and spread out evenly.Bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out of the middle clean.Let cool completely.Beat together cream cheese, Greek yogurt, powdered sugar, and vanilla until well combined.Spread or pipe over cooled bars.Enjoy!

 

Step by step:


1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 9x13" pan with cooking spray. Set aside.In large bowl combine flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir well to combine.In smaller bowl, whisk together sugar, applesauce, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract. Fold in carrots.

2. Add wet carrot mixture to flour mixture and stir until just combined.Fold in coconut.

3. Pour into prepared pan and spread out evenly.

4. Bake in preheated oven for 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out of the middle clean.

5. Let cool completely.Beat together cream cheese, Greek yogurt, powdered sugar, and vanilla until well combined.

6. Spread or pipe over cooled bars.Enjoy!


Nutrition Information:

Quickview
323k Calories
7g Protein
13g Total Fat
46g Carbs
7% Health Score
Limit These
Calories
323k
16%

Fat
13g
20%

  Saturated Fat
8g
53%

Carbohydrates
46g
16%

  Sugar
29g
33%

Cholesterol
70mg
23%

Sodium
386mg
17%

Get Enough Of These
Protein
7g
15%

Vitamin A
6895IU
138%

Manganese
0.79mg
39%

Selenium
17µg
24%

Phosphorus
181mg
18%

Fiber
3g
14%

Vitamin B2
0.21mg
13%

Vitamin B1
0.15mg
10%

Potassium
334mg
10%

Calcium
92mg
9%

Folate
33µg
8%

Vitamin B6
0.16mg
8%

Magnesium
31mg
8%

Iron
1mg
8%

Vitamin B3
1mg
7%

Vitamin K
6µg
6%

Copper
0.12mg
6%

Zinc
0.9mg
6%

Vitamin B5
0.6mg
6%

Vitamin B12
0.3µg
5%

Vitamin E
0.61mg
4%

Vitamin C
2mg
3%

Vitamin D
0.38µg
3%

covered percent of daily need
Widget by spoonacular.com

 

Suggested for you

How to Make The Ultimate Slow Cooker Potato Soup
Mexican Dogs
German Chocolate Cake Roll
Sesame Almond Slaw
Dutch Oven Paella
Jumbo Molasses Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ina Garten Lasagna
Flourless Smoked Sea Salt and Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crockpot Short Rib Tacos with Salted Lime Cabbage and Queso Fresco
Whole Wheat Banana Nut Bread
Food Trivia

Cooking food is one of the great revolutionary innovations of history because it not only transformed the way we prepare food, but because it also became a center of cultural communion and organized society.

Food Joke

I tried not to be biased in hiring a handicapped person, but his placement counselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable busboy. I had never had a mentally-handicapped employee, and I wasn't sure I wanted one. I wasn't sure how my customers would react to Stevie. He was short, a little dumpy, and had the smooth facial features and thick-tongued speech of Down Syndrome. I wasn't worried about most of my trucker customers because truckers don't generally care who buses tables as long as the meatloaf platter is good and the pies are homemade. The four-wheeler drivers were the ones who concerned me; the mouthy college kids traveling to school; the yuppie snobs who secretly polish their silverware with their napkins for fear of catching some dreaded "truck stop germ;" the pairs of white-shirted business men on expense accounts who think every truck stop waitress wants to be flirted with. I knew those people would be uncomfortable around Stevie so I closely watched him for the first few weeks. I shouldn't have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my staff wrapped around his stubby little finger, and within a month my truck regulars had adopted him as their official truck stop mascot. After that, I really didn't care what the rest of the customers thought of him. He was like a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes, eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to his duties. Every salt and pepper shaker was exactly in its place, not a bread crumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got done with the table. Our only problem was convincing him to wait to clean a table until after the customers were finished. He would hover in the background, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, scanning the dining room until a table was empty. Then he would scurry to the empty table and carefully bus the dishes and glasses onto a cart and meticulously wipe the table up with a practiced flourish of his rag. If he thought a customer was watching, his brow would pucker with added concentration. He took pride in doing his job exactly right, and you had to love how hard he tried to please each and every person he met. Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who was disabled after repeated surgeries for cancer. They lived on their Social Security benefits in public housing two miles from the truck stop. Their social worker, who stopped to check on him every so often, admitted they had fallen between the cracks. Money was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between them being able to live together and Stevie being sent to a group home. That's why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie had missed work. He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a new valve or something put in his heart. His social worker said that people with Down Syndrome often had heart problems at an early age so this wasn't unexpected, and there was a good chance he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back at work in a few months. A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery and doing fine. Frannie, my head waitress, let out a war whoop and did a little dance in the aisle when she heard the good news. Belle Ringer, one of our regular trucker customers, stared at the sight of the 50-year-old grandmother of four doing a victory shimmy beside his table. Frannie blushed, smoothed her apron and shot Belle Ringer a withering look. He grinned. "OK, Frannie, what was that all about?" he asked. "We just got word that Stevie is out of surgery and going to be okay." "I was wondering where he was. I had a new joke to tell him. What was the surgery about?" Frannie quickly told Belle Ringer and the other two drivers sitting at his booth about Stevie's surgery, then sighed. "Yeah, I'm glad he is going to be OK," she said, "but I don't know how he and his mom are going to handle all the bills. From what I hear, they're barely getti.

Popular Recipes
Ginisang Munggo at Chicharon (Mung Bean Soup with Pork Crackling)

Kawaling Pinoy

Mushroom and Spinach Sauté with Shaved Parmesan

For the Love of Cooking

Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, and Radishes With Garlic Aioli From 'The Kitchn Cookbook

Serious Eats

Zesty Italian Slow Cooker Lasagna

Baked Chicago

Roasted Spring Veggies w/ Chicken Sausage

Tessa the Domestic Diva