Best Oatmeal Carrot Cake Bread Recipes

OATMEAL CARROT CAKE BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Lightly spray bottom only of 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray or grease lightly.
• For bread, combine oats and milk in medium bowl; mix well. Let stand 10 minutes. Add pineapple (including juice), egg whites, oil and vanilla; mix well.
• In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; mix well. Stir in carrots and raisins. Add oat mixture to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Do not overmix.) Pour batter into pan.
• Bake 60 to 75 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean and crust is golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely. Store tightly wrapped.
• For cream cheese spread, beat together all ingredients in small bowl until smooth. Store tightly covered in refrigerator up to 3 days.
• CREAM CHEESE SPREAD (optional).
• 4 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
• 2 teaspoons firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.

OATMEAL CARROT CAKE BREAD

Steps:

• Oatmeal Carrot Cake Bread: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x5 loaf pan with cooking spray, line the bottom with parchment paper, then spray the top of the parchment paper with cooking spray. In a medium sized bowl combine the oats and milk and let them soak for about 5 minutes while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. In a large bowl whisk together the flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Stir the shredded carrots and raisins into the flour mixture. Add the crushed pineapple, Greek yogurt, eggs and vanilla to the oat mixture and whisk together until combined.
• Pour the wet ingredients in with the dry and fold together until just combined with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 40-45 minutes. Check the bread and if it is getting too brown on top cover it lightly with a piece of foil, then bake for another 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the bread in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting it on to a wire rack to finish cooling. When the bread is completely cooled top with the cream cheese frosting.
• Cream Cheese Frosting: In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment or with a hand held mixer, beat together the cream cheese, vanilla and pinch of salt until smooth. Add in the powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time until smooth and the desired sweetness is reached. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl between each addition of powdered sugar to ensure a smooth frosting.