Zucchini Oat Carrot Bars With Butter Cream Cheese Frosting Recipes

ZUCCHINI OAT CARROT BARS WITH BUTTER CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Set oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan or cookie sheet, and line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs oil, vanilla and sugar until smooth (about 2 minutes).
• Sift together flour, cinnamon, salt baking powder, baking soda.
• Add the flour mixture into the oil/egg mixture and blend well to combine (about 2 minutes).
• Fold in zucchini, carrots, oats and nuts; blend well to combine.
• Transfer to prepared pan.
• Bake for about 22-25 minutes.
• To make frosting: Mix/beat all ingredients together until smooth, adding more confectioners sugar to achieve desired consistancy to spread.
• Spread on cooled cake.
• Cut into bars.

CARROT ZUCCHINI BARS WITH LEMON CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, brown sugar, oil, honey, and vanilla. Don't worry about clumps of the brown sugar, those will dissolve as it sits while you prepare the remaining ingredients. Then fold in the carrot, zucchini, and walnuts.
• In another bowl combine add the flour, baking powder, ginger, and baking soda. Whisk to blend together.
• Add to flour mixture to the wet mixture. Stir just until combined. Spread batter into a greased 13x9 inch baking pan.
• Bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
• Once the cake is cooled prepare the frosting. In a medium mixing bowl, beat the fosting ingredients with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Spread or pipe the frosting over the cooled bars.

ZUCCHINI BARS WITH BROWNED BUTTER FROSTING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and sides of 15x10x1-inch pan with shortening or spray with cooking spray.
• In large bowl, beat granulated sugar, oil and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in zucchini and pecans. Spread in pan.
• Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean and top is golden brown. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, in 4-quart saucepan, heat butter over medium heat until light golden brown; remove from heat. Stir in powdered sugar, vanilla and milk until smooth and spreadable. Spread Browned Butter Frosting on cooled bars. For bars, cut into 8 rows by 6 rows. Top each bar with pecan half.

SKINNY CARROT AND ZUCCHINI BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, ginger, baking soda, and salt. In another large bowl, stir together egg product, carrot, zucchini, brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, oil, applesauce, honey, and vanilla. Add carrot mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until combined. Spread batter into an ungreased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
• Bake about 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
• For frosting: In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese and powdered sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Frost bars with frosting. Cut into bars.

ZUCCHINI BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13 inch pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla until well blended. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the zucchini. Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
• To make the frosting, blend together the margarine, cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth. Spread over warm cake. Allow cake to cool completely before cutting into bars.