Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
Do you have a big bag of carrots to use? Make this
healthy carrot cake recipe
or our
carrot cake overnight oats
after you've popped these cookies in the oven!
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
Healthy Cookies (It's the CARROTS)
It's no secret that adding pureed or shredded vegetables to baked goods is a great way to get a couple extra servings of veggies into your diet.
We have snuck vegetables into these
beet brownies
,
zucchini waffles
, and these
sweet potato pancakes
. Do you know what they all have in common other than having a bunch of veggies in them? They are all very moist and delicious!
The vegetable puree or shredded veggies all add moisture to delicious goodies like cookies, pancakes, breads, and waffles! The beauty is that you don't have to use as much oil or fat because the vegetable adds all you need!
Other than the vegetable puree, these cookies are packed with fiber from the oatmeal and omegas from the walnuts! These cookies are nutrient dense and delish.
How to Make these Cookies
These cookies are pretty easy to mix up and pop in the oven! Here are some extra details on what to look for when you are following the instructions in the recipe card!
Here's a tip--->
Before you start to mix ingredients together, measure all of your ingredients out so everything is ready to go. This is helps to avoid making measuring errors white you are mixing!
Step 1: Mix Wet Ingredients
In some cookies, mixing the wet ingredients and the dry ingredients separately is not that big of a deal. That is not the case for these carrot cake cookies.
Creaming the butter and sugar is a key part of making sure these cookies turn out just the way you want them! After creaming the butter and sugar
add the egg and
beat just until mixed
.
Do not over beat the egg, you will end up with dense cookies.
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
Step 2: Mix Dry Ingredients
We suggest mixing the dry ingredients in a separate bowl before slowing adding them to the wet ingredients! You want to add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients slowly so that all of the ingredients are mixed equally!
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
Step 3: Roll those Cookies
Before rolling the cookies into balls, be sure that you spray your baking sheet with non-stick baking spray! Don't forget to do this! It is the absolutely worse when cookies get stuck to a baking tray.
After spraying the baking sheet, we recommend using a 1.5 tablespoon cookie scooper to scoop out the dough.
We use this scoop
!
Roll each cookie dough ball and then carefully flatten the dough in your hands to create a circle! Place it on the baking sheet and repeat until the baking sheet is full.
These cookies do not spread out, so don't worry too much about the cookies spreading into each other!
Step 4: Bake Bake Bake
The bake time for these cookies is about 12-14 minutes! There is a range in the bake time because every oven is different! Also, the environment where you are baking the cookies matter.
Remember that if you like your cookies softer, bake them for fewer minutes. If you like a nice and crunchy cookie, bake them bit longer!
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
Tips + Tricks
Buy a Kitchen Aide.
This is no joke. Whether you buy yourself a
kitchen aide
or another stand mixer, we recommend investing in a stand mixer! It really just makes baking a heck of easier!
We tried making these cookies with a hand mixer and our arms were exhausted. When you have to beat sugar and cold butter together a stand mixer saves the day!
Great substitution options.
Though we think these oatmeal carrot cake cookies are perfect the way they are, there are substitution options if you need them! Here are some of our recommendations below!
- White Whole Wheat Flour--> All purpose flour
- Walnuts--> Almonds or Pecans
- Rasins--> Dried cranberries or chocolate chips
- Carrots--> We don't recommend substituting the carrots!
- Butter--> Coconut oil
Don't over-bake.
If you like your cookies a little crispier, go for baking these cookies for about 14 minutes. Just be sure not to completely over bake these cookies because they will turn into little carrot cake bricks.
One way to avoid over baking is to remove the cookies from the baking sheet when you remove them from the oven. Transfer them to a cooling rack and you'll be good to go!
Here's how to store these cookies.
We recommend storing these cookies in the refrigerator for up to five days in an air-tight container or in the freezer for up to three months (we love doing this!)
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins. 
Delicious oatmeal carrot cake cookies are the perfect cookie to eat anytime! They're made with oats, white whole wheat flour, grated carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, and raisins.
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