Carrot Cake-Chia Seed Cereal

Allison Day

by | Updated: December 4th, 2016

Fantasize about this: boosting the nutritional content of your favorite dessert without altering or losing any of the terrific taste that tickles your taste buds. You’re craving delicious, mouth-watering flavor without the unavoidable, misguided guilt that later convinces you skipping meals is the way to make amends. Make your sweet dreams a reality with this Carrot Cake-Chia Seed Cereal. This vegan, gluten-free dish is teeming with the spicy flavor of carrot cake and packed with healthy, chia seed goodness. Go ahead, dig in. You deserve it!

Carrot Cake Chia Seed Pudding Recipe

Carrot Cake-Chia Seed Cereal

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

¼ cup chia seeds
½ cup cashews, soaked for 4 hours, rinsed and drained
1 tsp. ground ginger or 1 Tbsp. fresh ginger
¼ tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. sea salt
½ cup grated carrot, uncooked (about 1 small carrot)
2 cups water
3 Tbsp. agave or maple syrup
2 tsp. vanilla extract

Directions

  1. In a high-speed blender, add all ingredients except for chia seeds. Blend until smooth, about 60 seconds.
  2. In a large bowl, stir together the carrot mixture and the chia seeds. Let sit for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  3. Once liquid is absorbed, transfer pudding into a covered glass container. Chill for at least 3 hours.
  4. Pudding will keep in the fridge for at least one week.
Allison Day

Allison Day is a nutritionist and recipe developer with a passion for creating simple, approachable, fresh and colorful whole food dishes. Her food writing, recipes, food styling and photography and nutrition advice have appeared in print and online publications such as alive, Prevention, Kris Carr, BuzzFeed, MindBodyGreen, BlogHer, The Kitchn, Epicurious, Well+Good NYC as well as on Cityline, Canada's number one daytime show. Clean Wellness is for anyone who wants to make healthy, sustainable and conscious choices about food. Allison’s vegetable-focused creations are created to be pleasing to all dietary preferences—no taste bud is left behind!