Healthy Carrot Cake Bars with Cream Cheese Swirl

Ingredients

Carrot Cake
• 1 cup grated carrots, raw (about 3 large carrots)
• 1/2 c oat flour or flour of choice
• 1/4 c coconut sugar
• 1/4 c golden flax meal
• 1 scoop protein powder ( I used PEScience Snickerdoodle, get 25% off using code PBCHOCO)
• 2 eggs, large
• 3 tbsp. egg whites
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. baking powder

Cream Cheese Swirl
• 4 oz fat free cream cheese
• 1 scoop vanilla protein powder (I used PEScience Gourmet Vanilla)
• 1/4 c egg whites

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350f and prepare an 8x8 inch baking pan with parchment paper or non-stick spray.
• In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients for the carrot cake together and set aside.
• In another bowl mix the eggs, egg whites and grated carrots together until combined.
• Add egg/carrot mixture to the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
• Pour carrot cake batter into the prepare pan.
• Add all cream cheese swirl ingredients into a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.
• Using a cookie scoop or spoon, drop dollops of the cream cheese swirl mixture on top of the carrot cake batter then using a knife, swirl them together.
• Bake for 25 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes at room temperature then chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour before serving.