Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal with Sweet Potato Butter

Sometimes self-care is making yourself something sweet and slabbering a ton of butter on top ✨🤤👸🏻🤤✨

It’s hard to not feel like a queen with a plate full of cake. 👸🏻🍰 Paired with the rich flavors of the sweet potato butter, you are bound to feel like royalty ✨👑✨

According to Ayurveda, any food is said to be medicinal when it helps in creating a balance between the doshas and the system, and also one which ignites the digestive fire, Agni. Oatmeal is one such food that helps balance Vata, pitta and Kapha doshas when prepared correctly 🔥🔥🔥

Dried fruits, nuts and produce can be transformed into nature’s candy with the proper preparation. Adding raisins, pistachios and carrots to oatmeal are good for settling Vata dosha which is running rampant as we move deeper into the autumn months. 🍂🍁🍂

Natural sweetness brings us sustaining, long lasting energy, while processed sweets bring us quick energy in short bursts, inevitably leaving us lacking and craving more. Comprised of the water and earth elements, the sweet taste is strengthening, nutritive, energizing, tonic, and soothing to the mind which is something we could use these days. You can treat yourself to some sweetness by reading the recipe below.

Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal Ingredients: Serves 4

• 2 cups rolled oats

• 1 tsp. baking powder

• 1 tsp. cinnamon

• 1/2 tsp nutmeg

• 1/2 tsp cardamom

• 1/2 tsp ground cloves

• 1/2 tsp ginger

• 1/4 tsp. salt

• 1 3/4 cups almond milk (or non-dairy milk of choice)

• 2 eggs

• 1/3 cup pure maple syrup

• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

• 3/4 cup shredded carrots

• 1/2 cup golden raisins

• 1/2 cup chopped pistachios

Baked Carrot Cake Oatmeal Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 375F and grease an 8×8 casserole dish.

2. In a large bowl, mix together the rolled oats, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, ground cloves and salt. In a medium bowl, stir together the almond milk, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla.

3. Add in the carrots and half of both the raisins and pecans

4. Add the wet mixture to dry mixture and stir until combined

5. Heat a skillet on medium high heat and pour the pistachios in. Saute dry for 1-2 minutes or until pistachios start to brown slightly.

6. Sprinkle on the rest of the raisins and pistachios and press down lightly again.

7. Bake, uncovered, for around 40-45 minutes, until lightly golden brown.

Sweet Potato Butter Ingredients: Makes 4 cups

• 2 cups diced peeled sweet potatoes

• 2 cups diced peeled tart apples

• 4 cups water

• 2/3 cup orange juice concentrate

• 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar

• 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

• 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Sweet Potato Butter Instructions:

1. In a heavy saucepan, combine all ingredients; mix well. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 2 to 2-1/4 hours or until mixture is thickened and about 1 cup of liquid remains, stirring occasionally.

2. In a blender, process mixture in batches until smooth. Transfer to jars or containers.

3. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving. Store in the refrigerator.