A healthy snack in cake form…yes, please! Carrot cake is one of my all time favourite cakes and will often buy a slice as a treat to go with my chai latte when we are out and about. It just contains everything that I love, warm autumnal spices, nuts and even a vegetable!
Better than shop bought flapjacks that seem to be full of additives and refined sugars, homemade flapjacks can be far healthier. You’re in control of the sugar content and you know exactly what has gone into them. Plus, it’s so quick to make your own homemade snacks and you can prepare a batch at the weekend to keep you covered for the rest of the week.
- 2 cups oats (180g)
- 1 carrot , grated
- 2 tbsp cinnamon
- 1/3 cup coconut oil (50 ml)
- 4 tbsp agave nectar
- 3 medjool dates
- 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
- 1/4 cup chopped pistachio nuts
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Preheat the oven to 190 degrees and line a baking tin with greaseproof paper.
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In a bowl pour in the oats, grated carrot, medjool dates, pistachio nuts, cinnamon and desiccated coconut. Stir together until well combined.
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In a separate bowl, melt together the coconut oil and agave nectar on the hob or in the microwave.
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Pour the liquid ingredients onto the dry ingredients and stir through so that everything is well coated.
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Tip the mixture into the baking tin and pat down with the back of a spoon until level.
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Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown on the edges. Allow to cool before portioning.
10 SMART POINTS PER SQUARE.
Store in an air-tight container in the fridge or in the freezer.
Dates add a lovely natural sticky sweetness and the pistachios not only lend a pop of colour, but also a different texture to these soft and chewy flapjacks. Of course, you can experiment and play around with the different add-ins if pistachio nuts aren’t your cup of tea. Traditional carrot cake recipes contain walnuts, which perhaps are more your thing? Dried cranberries would also work just as well as the dates to add a sweet note too.
This is my last recipe as part of my collaboration with Weight Watchers for their #WomanKind campaign and you can read my Q&A for the campaign here. My previous recipes include Dark Chocolate Superfood Buttons and Blueberry and Lemon Wholemeal Waffles – all designed to inspire you to be kind to yourself. Kindness and self-care are things that I heavily promote on the blog and believe that they are fundamental to living a wholly healthy and happy life!
Now someone pass me a Carrot Cake Flapjack and some tea!
Which of your favourite cakes would you like to see in snack form? What self-care practices will you be doing to be kind to yourself today?
*Recipe commissioned by Weight Watchers, but all content and opinions are my own.
Yum, those look delicious, I haven’t made carrot cake in ages and these would be ideal for half term baking with my daughters
The kids really love these. A great recipe to make together.
Oh, now this is just up my street. I love cooking with real food ingredients. I’m also human and love carrot cake…so am intrigued to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing it.
I hope you like them if you make them… Let me know what you think!
What a great idea. I do love flapjacks but rarely make them as they’re a bit naughty with all the golden syrup and I’m really bad at just eating one piece!!! But the idea of introducing carrots feels like it balances that out a lot!
They can be laden with lots of sugar and butter, but not these! I do like to put a healthy twist on my favourites.
My dad would love these! I love flapjacks but not a fan of carrot cake. would never have thought to mix the 2, its a great idea
Thank you! You could easily take the carrot out so its more to your liking. ????
Carrot cake + flapjacks?! Yum! 😀 They look and sound delicious 🙂
Thanks Nadia…best of both worlds!
I love carrot cake and I love flapjacks, so obviously I love these. I hardly ever have flapjacks now, but used to love them as a kid. I must make them more!
Funny, because I rarely make them too nowadays, but they do make delicious snacks.
What a BRILLIANT idea – why haven’t I ever thought of this? I’ll definitely be making these!
Thanks Kerry! I hope you like them if you make them.
My wife loves carrot cake. This would be a good recipe to surprise her with!
It’s a lovely twist on a classic!
I don’t have carrots enough in my life, but I absolutely must pick up some soon simply to make these! They look delicious, and like everyone else who has commented, I too love the fun, updated twist you’ve added to the humble flapjack recipe! I’d probably avoid using agave – it doesn’t sit well with me – potentially swap it for something else, or just hope the dates would add enough sweetness – maybe soak them a little so they go quite squishy, you know? I love making my own sweeter treats, simply because I know exactly what goes into them and because I can have control over the ingredients and sugar. Plus, shop bought varieties rarely live up to a homemade version!
She’s So Lucy
Actually the original recipe that I developed used maple syrup, but we swapped that out for agave to lower the Weight Watchers points, but you could so used it! I love carrot cake and thought I would give it a twist!
These look and sound amazing! I have loads of oats to use up so definitely book-marking this recipe! x
Oh lovely! I hope you like them
This looks heavenly and reminds me of the Graze boxes I used to have. I love carrot cake x
Thanks! I haven’t had a Graze box for years.
I LOVE the look and sound of these! Two of my favourite things combined. And it looks like the dates have formed a little heart in them ♥
These sound so good. I love carrot cake! What do you mean turn a cake into snack form… surely cake is a snack? Right??! Hehe 😉
These sound lovely- carrot cake is full of so many delicious flavours with the nuts and spices. I often make healthier flapjacks to take to work because people like things that they can have a small piece of, and they are easier to cut than cakes. Do you chop the dates or make it into more of a paste to sweeten?