Earlier in the week, I made a delicious and nutritious recipe that I’d like to share with you all. The idea for this treat came from Susan at The Great Balancing Act. I recently discovered Susan’s blog, and she has quickly become one of my favorite bloggers. If you haven’t checked out her site, you should! She’s real, honest and eats simply, yet deliciously. I made a few adaptations to her recipe for Carrot Cake Protein Bars, which can be found here.
Carrot Papaya Squares
Ingredients
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1 cup whole wheat flour
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1.5 Tbsp. cinnamon
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1/2 tsp. baking soda
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1/4 tsp. salt
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1/8 tsp. nutmeg
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2 egg whites
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1 whole egg (white + yolk)
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1/2 cup demerara sugar
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1/2 cup fat free plain yogurt
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1/5 cups grated carrots
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1.5 scoops vanilla whey protein
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1 cup quick oats (Rolled will be fine.)
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1/4 cup chopped, lightly sweetened, dried papaya
Directions
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Mix dry ingredients.
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Add wet ingredients and mix.
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Grease an 8×8 pan with coconut oil, and pour batter into pan.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. (Note: baking time may vary due to oven differences.)
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Enjoy!
I’ve been eating these squares for breakfast
with Oikos greek yogurt and flaxseed meal.
Or an Oikos, almond butter, + pear butter combination.
I love these bars! They taste like a treat, and yet almost all of the ingredients pack a nutritional punch!
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Speaking of Oikos, Stonyfield was kind enough to send me some free coupons so that I could sample different flavors of their greek yogurt. So far I’ve tried the vanilla and plain varieties. Expect a full review soon, but for now, let’s just say, I have a new favorite dessert!
Plain Oikos with Nestle Toll House dark chocolate and mint chips.
I originally bought those chocolate chips for baking, but they are slowly disappearing as I consume them with greek yogurt.
You have got to try this combo. I’m serious!
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In other news, I won a $50 gift card to iHerb from Joanna at Fitness & Spice. I’m beside myself with excitement. Thanks Joanna and iHerb!!! I’m going to need a lot of time to pick out my items because iHerb has everything. Baking products, beauty products, supplements, tea…you name it.
Any health foods or health products you swear by? I’d like to use my gift card to try some new things!
That looks great. I love carrot cake/bread.
HOLY F*CK THAT LOOKS DELICIOUS!!!! What I swear by? I dunno! You eat better than me
I do love me some delicious expensive bars and organic almond butter though.
what looks delicious…the bread or the greek yogurt with choco chips?
Woohoo! All looks tasty. If only I liked yogurt. Maybe I could freeze it!
Greek yogurt with chocolate chips looks awesome. I’ve tried regular yogurt with regular chocolate chips. But i love mint chocolate chip icecream, so I’m thinking this will be something similar to that. Sounds yum!
Kashi anything for sure!
Love the green mint chips. They really add some color to the bowl of yogurt.
Your carrot cake bars look so good! Carrot cake is my fav. dessert
Some health products I would recommend are: coconut oil, Stevia, good quality cocoa…
My latest infatuation is Tulsi hot tea. It’s the new Green tea!
those squares look delish btw!
Apparently you aren’t notoriously unlucky! Wee!
That bar recipe looks amazing. I always want to try new recipes but never get around to it. This might finally be the push I need, though!
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Yum, those squares sound great! And all good ingredients too!
Oh yum! Those protein squares look delish! I would totally eat them with yougurt – love my yogurt concoctions! Healthy food I swear by? Amazing Grass chocolate superfood and Larabars!
thsoe chocolate chips sound really delicious and the square looks and sounds amazing as well!!
that all looks so yummy! good job!
I loove those chocolate chips!
Hmm health products I swear by? Unfortunately, not so much. I just take a one a day every day!
Those carrot and papaya bars look so good and moist! I’ve never seen mint chips before!
ooh I have those mint and dark chocolate chips! I want to try them on some greek yogurt.
let me know how it goes!!!
Chocolate and mint chips with Green yogurt…nom nom nom!
I saw your comment today about those Carrot papaya squares and I thought they sounded wonderful! I love having fun, easy to travel breakfast items! I have time to make them on the weekends and then they last all through the week! Thanks for sharing!
Have a great weekend!
Congrats on the win! So exciting. I feel like my omega-3 pills make a difference in the health of my skin and nails. Adding choco and mint chips to greek yogurt is just plain genius. Thanks for the idea!
Carrot and papaya sound like a delicious combination. I think that would make a good lara bar too!! (Dried papaya, carrot and walnuts perhaps??)
good choice!
Chocolate chips are an awesome dessert topping.
I don’t DARE buy those chips! tooooo dangerous.
I already know Susan!! She’s already one of my favorite bloggers, too. So sweet, and adorable, and REAL!
Hm, what about interesting flavored-teas? Or yerba mate? Have you heard of that? Apparently it’s really good.
I’m so gonna make some of that carroty goodness! Boy does that yogurt and chips look good! x x
Ohhhh I want to try that recipe!! I’ve been trying to get back into baking lately, and this will definitely be added to my list. The great part is that I already have all of those ingredients in my kitchen except for the carrot and papaya
*writes down on grocery list*
congrats on winning the gift card, that is so cool! WOW those carrot papaya squares look mighty tasty, i should try out that recipe! thanks for sharing
Those carrot cake squares look great-o ! I am in Canada, so no greek yogurt for us…looks good though!
I LOVE baked goods with carrot in them.. yum yum yum.
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Oh these squares look SO delicious! Great recipe. I don’t think I have ever used dried papaya, or even un-dried papaya in a recipe before! Yum.
Congrats on winning the coupon from Joanna, what a great giveaway! I swear by many herbs/spices such as garlic, curry, and basil. Love em’.
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Hi there these bars look fantastic! I just thought I’d mention that the recipe you put doesn’t include papaya? Even though you called them carrot papaya bars? Just wanted to confirm if they included papaya. Thanks
They do include papaya. It’s the very last ingredient listed.