Soft and tasty cookies filled with oatmeal, carrots and raisins. These are healthy snack or dessert that the whole family will love!
Carrot Cake Cookies
Ingredients
½ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup sugar
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup unsweetened applesauce or fruit puree
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup whole-wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon ground ginger
2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
1 ½ cups finely grated carrot (about 3 large carrots)
1 cup raisins (or any type dried fruit)
Directions
- Wash hands with soap and water.
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Rinse or scrub fresh vegetables under running water before preparing.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, stir together the sugars, oil, applesauce, eggs and vanilla. Mix well.
- In a separate bowl, stir together the dry ingredients.
- Blend the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Stir in the carrots and raisins.
- Drop the dough by a teaspoon onto the baking sheet.
- Bake 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown.
- Store in an airtight container.
Notes
Food Sensitivities and Preferences
- For an egg-free cookie, substitute 6 Tablespoons aquafaba (the liquid drained from any canned white bean such as garbanzo beans) for the egg. Freeze extra aquafaba in 3 Tablespoon portions to substitute for 1 egg in other baked goods such as cookies and muffins.
- For a wheat-free and gluten-free cookie, substitute your favorite gluten-free flour mix and use gluten-free oats. The rise and texture will be a bit different than a cookie made with wheat flour.
- For a soy-free cookie, avoid soybean oil.
- Combine any of the free-from suggestions above for the muffin of your choice. The nutrient content texture will be different with different ingredients but our testers liked the variations.
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Comments
Use the "Cooking for a Crowd" version of this recipe when you have an event - it's so popular! You bake this recipe as a bar in a 1/2 or 1/4 size sheet pan, spreading the batter about 1 1/2 inches thick. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. An easy way to serve hundreds of people!
I followed recipe exactly, kids loved it. They are constantly asking me for me to make it again!
These cookies are so wholesome, rustic and delicious looking. I love the spices that have been used and the raisins, carrots, apple sauce, oats and brown sugar go so well together. Its a great snack for the kids.
Thank you so much for sharing this Healthy Carrot Cake Cookies recipe. I want to try it at home. I want to bake a cake for my kids. They always told me to bake then i was looking for a cake that has a carrot flavor. Then I finally found this recipe..Once again Thank you so much for posting this.
Kids and adults love this cookie. I always make a double batch and freeze some to have a smart treat on hand.
These taste really good, but are more like a soft muffin cookie. Followed recipe exactly, but was very sticky in the end, needed to use napkins!
This recipe is sooooo good! I will use it repetedly!
These are the best cookies! All my friends eat them before I get any! (make a big batch!)