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Turmeric Carrot Cake Bites! Made with 8 wholesome ingredients, these nutrition dense bites are a delicious no bake snack you can take with you anywhere. Gluten Free + Low Calorie + Vegan
Raw Carrot Cake, Carrot Cake Pancakes and now Turmeric Carrot Cake Bites! Can you tell I'm a bit of a carrot cake fan? Seriously, I'd take carrot cake any day over any other flavor.
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P.S. that raw carrot cake is my most popular recipe. If you haven't tried it, you need to! It's a good dessert-like treat to have around because it tastes like cake, but so much better for you!
Speaking of cake, I need your help because it's the guy's birthday next Monday. I'm not baking him a cake because a) I'm no Martha Stewart which means it will fall apart, and b) he'll probably not eat it thinking I put zucchini or something healthy in it.
A few weeks ago, I made healthier chocolate chip cookies. He claimed they were good, but was super nervous I put something healthy in them. He kept inspecting them for zucchini and asking what I put in them.
Now anytime I make something he says "zucchini, YUM!" I mean I love zucchini, but I'm not that creepy that I'm putting it in everything. So, no. He's not getting a home baked cake from me unless it comes from a box.
Come to think of it, I'll probably buy him ice cream, frosted flakes and candy. He would probably like that best! While those are not nutritionist approved foods, I don't mind getting them for him because he's made several healthy changes since we started dating like ditching soda.
It's all about meeting him where he's at, and he's definitely not ready for raw carrot cake or Turmeric Carrot Cake Bites!
But that just means more delicious bites all for me. MUAHAHA!!! I love it when I don't have to share!
These turmeric carrot cake bites have only 8 ingredients and come together in 5 minutes in a blender. The fun part is rolling the sticky batter into balls in between your hands so you can lick all that yummy carrot cake-like batter off your hands. See, told you I don't like to share!
These are an easy no bake snack you can take with you anywhere. Perfect any time of year when the carrot cake craving strikes!
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Turmeric Carrot Cake Bites {GF, Low Cal, Vegan}
Ingredients
- 1 cup carrots shredded
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened coconut flakes + more for rolling
- 1 cup Gluten Free rolled oats
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 tablespoons almond butter or nut butter of choice
- 1/8 cup raisins
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Process on high 1 minute, stop, scrape down the sides then process again. Repeat as necessary until all ingredients are fully processed. The batter should be a bit sticky.
- Roll the batter into balls by scooping 1 large tablespoon of batter and rolling between your hands. Wetting your hands can help them stick better. Place on a plate until all balls are rolled.
- Place the extra coconut flakes on another separate plate. Roll each ball over the shredded coconut.
- Place the balls in the refrigerator to harden 20-30 minutes, overnight is best.
- Keep refrigerated up to 1 week and freeze up to 4 weeks.
Notes
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Nutrition
What I Used For The Recipe
Hi, Made these and they are delicious thanks so much for the recipe. but I inputted them in myfitnesspal and the calorie count seems to be a bit off. so just to let you know when I inputted the recipe it was about 68 calories per ball
Glad you liked them and thanks for letting me know! It looks like the oats were missing. It's updated now!
I tried it now, and I love it! I used pecans instead of coconut. I also used pecans instead of coconut, but am 100% certain it'd be just as delicious with the coconut. I come from the south- our carrot cakes have pecan, and I know elsewhere it's often coconut. I divided the mixture into two ramekins for 2, 200-ish calorie desserts. FAR more reasonable than a 600+ calorie slice of carrot cake, which would be nowhere near as filling. That was one of the amazing things about these. They're soooo satisfying. I'm going to try this with grated, drained apple. I'm afraid it might be too wet, but I'll let you know how it goes!
Wow, thank you, I was having a murderous carrot cake craving. It's passed, especially after looking at the nutrition information on all the carrot cakes I saw at the store, but next time...!
Hooray for carrot cake season, right?! And your photos are beautiful!
Thanks Blair!
Your guy and my girl should hang out. I get some me sideways looks when I give her something to try. Sigh. I'd eat ALL of these!
It's a good reminder how far we've come!
These look delightful! I may need to make a batch to eat in the car for an upcoming trip.
Perfect for road tripping!
Mr. Hungry would like frosted flakes and ice cream the best to, we have a rule that on holidays he gets to buy store bought whatever ha ha - even then we got to Whole Foods so he can't get tostitos 99 cent pizzas lol
He would get along with the BF. He likes all the crap too! His freezer is overflowing with those pizzas.
These look great! Turmeric sure is the in thing right now!
It sure is!
So i saw a recipe for carrot cake oatmeal the other day and these would be SO good to put ON the oatmeal! Carrot cake overload!
OMG that sounds delish!
When do I get to meet this boy. you know he has to pass me 😀
Haha....maybe we can FaceTime sometime so you can meet him!