Carrot cake over night oats || one, your microbiome will thank you for!

Oh yes, Carrot cake overnight oats, that’s right!! Carrot cake reminds me of my mum, and grandparents when we used to go and see them in Clifton! I never really liked it too much as a kid, but now it makes me feel like i’m sitting with them all, catching up over coffee and cake! I miss them…

Carrot cake over night oats

Ingredients

1 x cup Flannerys OWN oats
½ x cup coconut flakes
2 x carrots finely grated
¼ x cup walnuts finely chopped
¼ x cup Flannerys OWN sultanas
1 ½ x cups Greek yoghurt
1 x cup milk of choice
1-2 x tsp cinnamon
½ x tsp nutmeg
¼ x tsp cloves
Drizzle of maple syrup
Pinch of salt
Tsp vanilla

Method:

1. In a large mixing bowl, add the dry ingredients (oats, coconut, sultanas, walnuts, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves) and mix together thoroughly with a spoon. Add in carrot

2. Add in yoghurt and combine thoroughly. Add vanilla, maple syrup and milk and stir.

3. Once fully stirred through and mixed together evenly, add mixture to jars to set in the fridge over night.

4. Top with extra yoghurt, cinnamon, crushed walnuts and honey!

Nutrition information

Carrot cake over night oats! SO delicious, such an incredible way to increase your vegetable consumption straight away first thing in the morning. The perfect combination of a pre and probiotic rich breakfast with yoghurt oats, carrot and sultanas.

Carrots are an excellent source of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a pro vitamin A, which means it converts to vitamin A after a number of metabolic enzyme reactions. Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin that is involved in eye sight. A stimulis of light converts the chemical structure of vitamin A (retinal) to create a series of events that results in a nerve impulse up the optic nerve that stimulates vision, particularly at night. That’s why they say, eat your carrots to see in the dark! Beta carotene is absorbed best when consumed with a fat therefore, the fats from the walnuts and yoghurt will help to increase bioavailability.