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Weight Watchers Recipe of the Day: Low Fat Frosted Carrot Zucchini Bars
Are you looking for healthy dessert recipes you can serve your family without a lot of guilt?
These lower calorie carrot zucchini bars (frosted or plain) are a great way to entice your family into eating their veggies.
Recipe Notes
They are packed with nutritional goodness from carrots, zucchini, raisins, walnuts and whole wheat pastry flour. Low in fat, the whole recipe uses just 1/4 cup of canola oil. So you can serve these carrot zucchini bars without a lot of guilt.
I also added 1/4 cup of carrot puree to help keep them moist with minimal fat.
In addition to being healthy, these carrot-zucchini bars are are quick and easy too. Just stir together the ingredients, spread the batter in a pan and bake.
How Many Calories and WW Points in these Frosted Carrot Zucchini Bars?
According to my calculations, each bar with frosting has about 156 calories.
To see your WW Points for this recipe, track it in the WW App!
(You must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.)
7 SmartPoints (Green plan)
7 SmartPoints (Blue plan)
7 SmartPoints (Purple plan)
4 PointsPlus (Old plan)
If you like this lightened up recipe for carrot zucchini bars, be sure to check out some of my other Weight Watchers friendly dessert recipes including WW 2-Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake, Low-Fat Lemon Bars, Double German Chocolate Mini Cupcakes, Crock Pot Fruit Cocktail Cake and Slow Cooker Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies
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Carrot Zucchini Bars Recipe
Ingredients
For the carrot zucchini bars:
- 1-1/2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour or white whole-wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1-1/2 cups shredded carrots (about 3 medium)
- 1 cup shredded zucchini
- 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1/4 cup pureed carrots (I used a small jar of baby food carrots)
- 1/4 cup honey, or maple syrup
For the citrus icing:
- 8 ounces reduced-fat cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice or orange juice
- 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon or orange zest (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F degrees. Lightly grease the bottom of a 9 x 13-inch pan. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking powder and salt until well blended.
- In another bowl stir together the eggs, shredded carrots, shredded zucchini, brown sugar, raisins, walnuts, oil, pureed carrots and honey until well blended.
- Stir the carrot zucchini mixture into the flour mixture just until blended.
- Spread the batter evenly into the prepared pan.
- Bake 25 to 30 minutes, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and place the pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Sprinkle the cooled carrot zucchini bars with a dusting of powdered sugar or spread with citrus cream cheese frosting made with reduced-fat cream cheese.
- To make the icing, in a mixing bowl, beat the reduced-fat cream cheese, sugar, juice and zest until fluffy.
Notes
(Must be logged into WW on a smartphone or tablet.) 7 SmartPoints (Green plan) 7 SmartPoints (Blue plan) 7 SmartPoints (Purple plan) 4 PointsPlus (Old plan) These dessert bars are packed with nutritional goodness from carrots, zucchini, raisins, walnuts and whole wheat pastry flour. Low in fat, the whole recipe uses just 1/4 cup of canola oil. So you can serve these carrot zucchini bars without a lot of guilt. I also added 1/4 cup of carrot puree to help keep them moist with minimal fat. 1 bar without icing: 111 calories, 4.1 g fat, 17.6 g carbs, 0.9 g fiber, 2.3 g protein, 3 Weight Watchers PointsPlus, 5 Weight Watchers SmartPoints, 5 WW Points
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I love carrot and zucchini filled baked goods. They somehow seem more wholesome!
Here are some of my favorite recipes for baked goods with carrots and/or zucchini
- Mom’s Lighter Zucchini Bread with Coconut
- Apple Zucchini Loaf Cake
- Enlightened Carrot Cupcakes
- Healthy Breakfast Muffins
Here’s a different take on making Healthy Low-Fat Carrot Zucchini Bars with Citrus Cream Cheese Frosting:
these look so good …would you please post the NI without the icing ??? thanks so very much…
Hi Doris,
They are very yummy! I’ve posted the NI without the icing which reduces the points plus to 3. Hope this helps.
these look simple, and I’m sure delicious too! thanks for sending it my way, and I hope you like the brownies:)