Carrot cake overnight oats with cottage cheese frosting
10 min · 34 g protein · 370 cals / serving
Carrot cake in a jar: oats soaked overnight in milk and blended cottage cheese with finely grated carrot, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla and a few raisins, then crowned with a thick vanilla frosting whipped from cottage cheese, tangy like cream-cheese frosting, and a little toasted walnut. Creamy, spiced and ready when you wake up.
Ingredients
Oats
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp cottage cheese (1%), low-fat
- 3/4 cup + 1 tbsp skim milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- a few drops, to taste stevia
- 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp rolled oats rolled oats
- 3 medium carrots, peeled and finely grated
- 2 tsp chia seeds
- 1 tsp raisins
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 1 tiny pinch salt
Frosting
- 2/3 cup cottage cheese (1%), low-fat
- 1/4 tsp vanilla extract
- a few drops, to taste stevia
- 1 half per jar walnuts, toasted and finely chopped
- 1 pinch ground cinnamon
Steps
- Blend the cottage cheese for the oats with the milk, vanilla and sweetener until smooth and creamy, about 30 seconds.
- In a bowl, stir together the oats, grated carrot, chia, raisins, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and salt. Pour over the blended cottage cheese mixture, stir well and divide between two jars.
- Blend the frosting cottage cheese with the vanilla and sweetener for a full minute, until thick, glossy and completely smooth. Spoon it over the oats in a thick layer, cover and refrigerate overnight, or at least 4 hours.
- In the morning, scatter the walnuts and a pinch of cinnamon over the frosting and eat cold, straight from the jar.
Good to know
Why grate the carrot so fine?
Finely grated carrot softens overnight and melts into the oats like the crumb of a carrot cake. Coarse shreds stay crunchy and raw-tasting.
How long do they keep?
Up to 4 days in the fridge, so make four jars on Sunday. Keep the walnuts separate so they stay crunchy.
Looser than you like in the morning?
Grated carrot lets out its juice overnight, so these set soft and spoonable rather than stiff. For a thicker jar, stir an extra teaspoon of chia into the oats the night before, which leaves it about the same score, or use 50 ml less milk. They firm up a little more each day.
Per
- Calories
- 84
- Protein
- (39%)
- 8 g
- Fat
- (18%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (44%)
- 10 g
- of which sugar
- 4 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 252 mg
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As written, 740 kcal goes into the pot and 883 g of ingredients comes out as about 883 g of food: 84 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.