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Luv, luv, luv these carrot bites – and they are super easy to assemble. In fact, I’ll be making them again this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
Sissy
These carrot cake bites are chewy, cinnamony, cake-bally, and just the right amount of sweet. They are flecked with coconut and oats and made creamy with almond butter. The carrots are there, but they’re not excessively salady – they just add some specks of color, flavor, and texture to an almost-cookie-dough-like bite of joy that lives in a little jar in your fridge, waiting for that 3pm moment to make your day a little brighter.
Breakfast bites, snack-with-coffee bites, desserty bites… with these little gems, all of it is fair game.
I mean, the thing about real carrot cake is that you want it, and you want it loaded with cream cheese frosting. Lots of cream cheese frosting. And then you finally have it and it is, in fact, so so good. But then you spike, crash, and can’t shake the feeling that you need to go to the dentist immediately? I don’t know, maybe that’s just me.
Guess what is there for you in a more wholesome, sustaining, but still tastes like yummy carrot cake way?
THESE BITES. These raw, vegan, delicious carrot cake bites.
How To Make Carrot Cake Bites That Are Vegan and Raw and Delicious
You 100% need a food processor for these. You guys know I LOVE MY FOOD PROCESSOR. Please buy yourself a food processor. This is the one I have. (This is an affiliate link.)
First up: carrots. Just pop in the food processor and go. I seriously hate grating carrots so I will not ask you to do any of that.
Next up: clean out the carrots and pulse up your oats and coconut, so it’s kind of like a flour.
And now: everybody in.
Finally: white chocolate chips for the people who like to be extra.
If you’re vegan or want to keep it totally clean, go for some chunky nuts, cacao nibs, or vegan chips instead.
Roll, refrigerate, and done.
Yep, I’d say the spring snacking season is off to an excellent start. Carrot cake bites for all!
Check Out Our Video For How To Make Carrot Cake Bites:
Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Bites
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 30–40 bites, depending on how big you make them 1x
Description
Raw Vegan Carrot Cake Bites that are chewy, cinnamony, cake-bally, and just the right amount of sweet. Perfect on-the-go snack for spring!
Ingredients
- 1 medium carrot, peeled and chopped
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 2 cups flaked unsweetened coconut
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon (more or less to taste)
- white chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
- Add carrot chunks to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. (You should have a generous 1/2 cup.)
- Remove carrots and set aside. Add oats and coconut. Pulse until coarsely ground.
- Add all other ingredients, including the chopped carrots. Pulse until a smooth-ish, sticky “dough” forms. (You might have to push it down with a spatula a few times to help it along.)
- Add white chocolate chips and pulse until chopped.
- Roll into balls. Store in the fridge or freezer. Mwah! This week is looking good.
Equipment
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- Category: Snack
- Method: Mix and Roll
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: raw vegan carrot cake bites, carrot cake bites, healthy carrot energy bites
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Nice recipe
Great recipe for those who fancy something sweet but healthy. I will try!
MY NEW FAVE!! These are incredible! I didn’t have white chocolate chips, which would have been amazing and they still tasted like carrot cake.
Love the energy bites!!!!
Hello!
I made these and they were delicious but they aren’t holding their form well. Could it be the almond butter I used? I chilled as directed…
These are so good and easy to make! They taste just like carrot cake. Thanks for the recipe!
I have never left a comment after making a recipe but this is well worth a mention. I just made these for my daughters who are both nursing babies with allergies and have very restricted diets. I did have to replace the oats with buckwheat oats, eliminate the vanilla and used dairy free chocolate chips (also added walnuts). Amazing! Delish for anyone!! Will make again and will explore more of your recipes. Thank-You!!
These are lovely, we are always looking for sugar free snacks in our hose and these really fit the bill.
I LOVE your vegan section! This is my favourite veggie blog!
Cinamon and Coconut just work wonders together!
Such a quick, easy recipe. I made these for our dessert last night, and I could not eat just one! Mine turned out a little gooey/sticky, but keeping them in the freezer seems to be working to help them maintain their shape.
Thank you for a great recipe. It’s super nice and complete and helpful
Oh yum these sound amazing. I’m down for anything carrot cake related 🙂 the white chocolate is a great touch!
These were absolutely delicious and very easy to mix up! My toddler and I couldn’t stop eating the batter!
Only problem I had was that the dough was so insanely sticky! We couldn’t even come close to rolling out balls. Instead I just dropped clumps on a tray to try and chill. I’m wondering if it would be helpful to chill the dough before I roll into balls?
Yes, that would definitely help!
What can I sub the oats for to make it grain free? Thank you for your consideration
Hi Kendra! We’ve only made these bites with oats, so it’s hard to say what would work in their place.
I would like to know the measurement (1/2 cup, 3oz )of a single serving please.
Hi Val! So sorry we don’t have that information. If we make them in the future, we will pop one on the scale to get the weight of one bite.
Can I use sweetened coconut flakes instead of unsweetened coconut flakes?
Yes you can use sweetened coconut flakes, but overall, the bites will be sweeter. Enjoy!
I loved these so much!
Wow!
These are delicious. The recipe is easy to follow and makes a lot! I rolled half of them in shredded coconut. My 3 year old ate 2 carrot bites before I could get them in the freezer so this is definitely a winner recipe.
I used my blender instead of food processor and it worked perfect. Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Yay! So happy to hear this, Kay!
These carrot cake bites were so easy to make and absolutely delicious! Thanks for a great recipe.
Glad you enjoyed these bites, Amy!
these are a great hit with me and my kids!
I make them with pecans, and we roll them in cocoa and they’re totally fabulous!!
Sounds delicious!
Can you bake this?
We haven’t tested that out before actually just because they’re intended to be eaten raw.
Can you add some protein powder to these to pump the macros? And if so, would you change any of the other ingredient amounts to compensate?
Should work just fine! You could try reducing the oats by a bit to compensate.
I drug my feet on making these, I guess because I had to “drag out” the cuisinart. But these are so easy and so good! The only trick is making sure I save them as snacks instead of just eating them all like cookies.
Additionally, these are a great thing for a 4-year-old to help with. No hot things and no knives.
Thanks for another great recipe!
I just posted these on my website to share! They were SO good and all of my kids really liked them! Thank you, Lyndsey, for your awesome recipes!
These are so good! The perfect little sweet treat that you can feel good about eating.