Best Carrot Bars Recipes

GRAMMY'S CARROT CAKE BARS

Steps:

• Make the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degree C). Spray a 9-by-13-inch (23-by-33-centimeter) baking dish with cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the oil and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to beat until thick and creamy. Add the carrots and mix to combine. Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir in the flour mixture by hand, making sure not to overmix. Pour the batter into the prepared baking dish and bake until the edges pull away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool completely in the baking dish.
• Meanwhile, make the frosting: (If you are extra fancy and have two stand mixers, then you are all set to get started, but if you are like me and just have the one, then you have to wash the bowl and paddle attachment now.) In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whip the cream cheese and butter until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add the confectioners' sugar 1/2 cup (65 g) at a time and whip on medium-low until homogenous, thick, light, and fluffy. Stir in the vanilla. Using an offset spatula, spread the frosting evenly onto the top of the cooled cake. Sprinkle the top with the walnuts. Cut the cake into thirds lengthwise and then quarters vertically to make 12 bars. Remove the cake with an offset spatula to a platter.

CARROT CAKE BARS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat eggs and oil for 2 minutes. Combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to egg mixture. Add baby foods; mix well. Stir in walnuts if desired., Transfer to a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack., For frosting, in a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Frost; cut into bars. Store in the refrigerator.

FROSTED CARROT BARS

Steps:

• In a bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs and carrots. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda and salt; add to carrot mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool. , In a bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla. Blend in sugar until smooth. Place 1/4 cup of frosting in a small bowl; stir in yellow and red food coloring to make orange. Set aside. Place 3 tablespoons frosting in a small bowl; stir in green food coloring., Spread white frosting on cake. Cut a small hole in the corner of a pastry or plastic bag; fill with orange frosting. Mark off 20 squares on the cake; pipe a small carrot in the center of each square. Place green frosting in another bag; cut a small hole in the corner. Pipe greens on top of each carrot.

CARROT BARS

Steps:

• Cream sugar and oil. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and eggs and beat well.
• Add flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt and mix well. Fold in carrots and nuts.
• Pour batter in a greased 9x13 inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Cool completely.
• Beat margarine, cream cheese, vanilla, and confectioners sugar until creamy. Spread on cooled bars.

CARROT ZUCCHINI BARS WITH LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, brown sugar, oil, honey, and vanilla. Don't worry about clumps of the brown sugar, those will dissolve as it sits while you prepare the remaining ingredients. Then fold in the carrot, zucchini, and walnuts.
• In another bowl combine add the flour, baking powder, ginger, and baking soda. Whisk to blend together.
• Add to flour mixture to the wet mixture. Stir just until combined. Spread batter into a greased 13x9 inch baking pan.
• Bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
• Once the cake is cooled prepare the frosting. In a medium mixing bowl, beat the fosting ingredients with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Spread or pipe the frosting over the cooled bars.

SKINNY CARROT AND ZUCCHINI BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, ginger, baking soda, and salt. In another large bowl, stir together egg product, carrot, zucchini, brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, oil, applesauce, honey, and vanilla. Add carrot mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Spread batter into an ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
• Bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
• For frosting: In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Frost bars with frosting. Cut into bars.

EASY CARROT CAKE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a small saucepan, combine sugar, carrots, spices, raisins, water, orange juice and butter. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Pour mixture into a large bowl and cool to lukewarm. Add flour, baking soda, and salt to the carrot mixture. Mix well, and stir in walnuts.
• Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick comes out clean.

CARROT BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8x11 inch pans.
• Beat together the oil, sugar, eggs and carrots. Combine the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add to wet ingredients and mix well.
• Pour into pans and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool..
• Beat together cream cheese and butter. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, mix until smooth. Spread frosting on cooled cakes and serve.

CARROT ZUCCHINI BARS WITH LEMON LIME FROSTING

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl mix together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, ginger, and baking soda. In another bowl stir together eggs, carrot, zucchini, raisins, walnuts, oil, honey, and vanilla.
• 2. Add carrot mixture to flour mixture and stir just until mixed. Spread batter in an un-greased 9 by 13 inch cake pan. Bake for 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of bar comes out clean. Cool pan on a wire rack and when cool frost with Lemon-Lime Frosting.
• 3. FROSTING: In a medium mixer bowl combine cream cheese, and powdered sugar. When well mixed and fluffy add lemon and lime peel. Frost bars. Store any leftovers in the refrigerator.

CARROT CAKE CHEWY OATMEAL BARS

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350° Add carrots and raisins to hot tap water. Allow to hydrate for a minimum of 5 minutes. Drain and squeeze out excess water
• 2. In small sauce pan, melt brown sugar, corn syrup and butter on medium. Bring to a boil and cook for 3 minutes. Remove from heat
• 3. To a mixing bowl add the cake mix, drained carrots and raisins(are in the box), coconut, nuts, oatmeal and egg. Mix by hand until blended
• 4. Pour in the melted brown sugar, butter mixture and stir until well mixed
• 5. Spread evenly into a 9x13 inch, lightly greased baking pan
• 6. Bake for 30-35mins.
• 7. Remove from oven and immediately press down on surface of hot cooked bars with spatula.
• 8. Cool and refrigerate before cutting.

CARROT AND RAISIN BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Combine carrots, raisins, water, sugar, orange juice, butter, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Pour carrot mixture into a large bowl and cool to lukewarm, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Stir flour, egg, baking soda, and salt into carrot mixture until batter is well mixed; fold in walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes.

CARROT CAKE BARS WITH CINNAMON-CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray 15x10x1-inch pan with baking spray with flour.
• In large bowl, beat bar ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Spread evenly in pan.
• Bake 19 to 24 minutes or until top is evenly golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In medium bowl, beat cream cheese, butter, milk, vanilla and cinnamon with electric mixer on low speed until smooth. Gradually beat in powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, until smooth and spreadable. Spread frosting evenly over cooled bars. Store covered in refrigerator.

CARROT AND ZUCCHINI BARS WITH CITRUS-CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, ginger and baking soda.
• In another large bowl, combine eggs, carrot, zucchini, oil, honey, vanilla and walnuts and raisins, if used.
• Add carrot mixture to flour mixture, stirring until just combined.
• Spread batter into an ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan.
• Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack.
• Frosting:in a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese with powdered sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy.
• Fold in lemon/orange zest.
• Frost and store in the refrigerator.
• Cut into bars to serve.

ZUCCHINI-CARROT BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Line bottom of 15x10x1-inch pan with parchment paper or spray with cooking spray. In large bowl, stir together bar ingredients until well mixed. Spread in pan.
• Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In large bowl, beat together frosting ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. If needed, add more milk to make a spreadable consistency. Spread over cooled bars. Cut into 2x1-inch bars. Garnish with raspberries and mint leaves. Store in refrigerator.

CARROT CAKE CHEESECAKE BARS

Steps:

• For the crust: Position an oven rack in the bottom third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment, leaving a 2-inch overhang on 2 of the sides.
• Add the flour, confectioners' sugar, butter, cinnamon and salt to a food processor. Pulse until the mixture resembles coarse meal with some pea-size pieces. Add the egg and 1 tablespoon cold water and pulse until the dough comes together. Press the dough into the bottom of the prepared pan. Prick the dough all over with a fork. Bake until the crust is golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool slightly on a rack, about 15 minutes.
• For the carrot juice curd filling: Meanwhile, whisk the carrot juice, granulated sugar, milk, cinnamon, salt and whole eggs and yolks in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat until well combined. Add the butter a few pieces at a time, whisking constantly and making sure the butter is melted before adding more, and continue to cook until the mixture is thick, a little lighter in color and coats the back of a spoon, 12 to 15 minutes. Strain the curd if any lumps form, then pour into the crust and smooth with a spatula.
• Bake until the curd is set (a small part in the center may still be a little jiggly), 35 to 40 minutes. Let cool slightly on a rack, about 30 minutes, then transfer to the refrigerator to cool completely, about 30 minutes.
• For the walnut crumble: Meanwhile, microwave the butter in a small microwave-safe bowl until melted, about 1 minute. Stir in the walnuts, brown sugar, oats, cinnamon and salt. Microwave until the sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute. Let cool in the bowl until the crumble is crunchy, about 30 minutes. Cover tightly or transfer to an airtight container and store at room temperature until ready to use.
• For the no-bake cheesecake: Once the curd filling is chilled, whip the heavy cream in a medium bowl with a whisk until stiff, fluffy peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes (or 1 to 2 minutes using an electric mixer on medium speed); set aside.
• Beat the cream cheese and granulated sugar in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Reduce the speed to medium low, add the lemon juice, sour cream and vanilla and beat until just combined, 1 to 2 minutes. Gently fold the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture with a large rubber spatula.
• Pour the batter on top of the curd filling and smooth the top with an offset spatula. Cover tightly and refrigerate until set, at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
• Just before serving, sprinkle the walnut crumble on top. Cut into squares and serve cold.

EASY CARROT CAKE BARS

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients for bars in large mixing bowl.
• Beat until smooth.
• Pour into greased 9"x 13" cookie sheet or large oblong pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Let cool completely before frosting with my Easy Carrot Bar Cake Cream Cheese Frosting.
• Cut in squares and serve.
• Note: You can either add nuts to the cake mix or sprinkle chopped walnuts on top of my Easy Carrot Bar Cake Cream Cheese Frosting before cutting into squares.

EXTREMELY HEALTHY FIBER PACKED ZUCCHINI CARROT CRANBERRY BARS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a cake pan (9x13) with nonstick cooking spray.
• Mix together milk with lemon juice. Set aside for 5 minutes.
• Beat egg well, then add brown sugar, sugar, oil and beat together again. Add in vanilla, zucchini, carrots, cranberries and the milk and lemon mixture. Mix together well.
• Put the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nuts if you added any in another bowl. Mix them together.
• Add the dry mixture with the wet mixture, mix together until just combined. Spoon the mixture into the oiled pan and sprinkle some cinnamon sugar mixture onto the top if desired.
• Bake for about 35-40 minutes or until wooden stick inserted into the middle comes out clean and the bars are not sticky in the middle.
• Turn off the oven but don't open the oven or take the pan out, just leave it in there for 5 minutes if you like the outside crispy. Don't overbake, they become really dry and hard.

CARROT RAISIN BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pan). Grease and flour bottom and sides of 15x10x1-inch pan, or spray with baking spray with flour.
• In large bowl, mix cake mix, oil, water and eggs with spoon. Stir in raisins and nuts. Spread evenly in pan with metal icing spatula or dinner knife.
• Bake 20 to 24 minutes or until bars spring back when touched lightly in center. Cool completely, about 1 hour. Spread with frosting. For bars, cut into 8 rows by 6 rows. Store loosely covered.

CARROT RAISIN BARS RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 360 degrees.
• Lightly grease 8x8-inch baking pan.
• Beat sugar and margarine with an electric mixer at medium speed until well blended - about 2 minutes.
• Add egg and vanilla mix well.
• Mix in water.
• Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add to egg mixture and mix until blended.
• Mix in oats, raisins, and carrot.
• Spread dough in pan.
• Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, about 25 minutes.

CARROT RAISINS BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F Grease or line a 9x13-inch baking dish with parchment paper.
• Combine bran, flour, carrots, brown sugar, raisins, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl,.
• Whisk yogurt, honey, oil and egg in a separate bowl. Add these ingredients to flour mixture. Stir well to combine. Batter will be thick.
• Place batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cut into 18 bars.
• If you are making muffins, bake at 375F, for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.