Yesterday we pulled quite a few carrots from our little carrot patch. We still have a ton to be pulled. In the mean time, I thought I'd share a yummy recipe for Carrot Cake Cookies.
Carrot Cake Cookies (adapted from Martha Stewart)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon finely chopped crystallized ginger
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
pinch of salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup finely grated carrots, juiced squeezed out
1 cup oats
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Cream Cheese Filling
4 ounces Neufchatel, softened
2 Tablespoons butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
In mixing bowl, beat butter until light and creamy. Add sugar and brown sugar, beat until light and fluffy.
Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until incorporated.
Add flour, cinnamon, ginger, crystallized ginger, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix well.
Add carrots*, oats and pecans. Mix well.
Use an ice cream scoop or cookie scoop and scoop evenly onto baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for 12 minutes or until the edges are just golden. Allow to cool for a minute on the sheet and then move to a cooling rack.
Finish baking the rest of the cookies.
Meanwhile, beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat until creamy.
Once cookies are completely cooled, spread a little of the cream cheese filling onto one side of a cookie and top with another cookie.
*grate the carrots and then put them in a tea towel and squeeze the life out of them! the juice can be saved for other uses or discarded
Ta-da!
It's totally divine!
Enjoy!
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*grate the carrots and then put them in a tea towel and squeeze the life out of them! the juice can be saved for other uses or discarded
This post has also been linked to:
- Mouthwatering Monday at A Southern Fairytale
- Mmmonday at Acting Balanced
- Monday Mania at The Healthy Home Economist
- Muffin Monday at Talking Dollars and Cents
- 2 Maids a Baking at 2 Maids a Milking
- Hearth and Soul at A Moderate Life
- Tempt My Tummy Tuesday at Blessed with Grace
- Delicious Dish at It's a Blog Party
- Delectable Tuesday Blog Hop at Home Sweet Farm
- Tasty Tuesday at 33 Shades of Green
- Tasty Tuesday at Balancing Beauty and Bedlam
- Made from Scratch Tuesday at From Mess Hall to Bistro
- $5 Dollar Dinner Challenge
- No Whine Wednesday at Food on the Table
- Lets Do Brunch at My Sweet & Savory
- Works for Me Wednesday at We are THAT Family
- Real Food Wednesdays at Kelly the Kitchen Kop
- What's On Your Plate? at Good Cheap Eats
17 comments:
Oh. Mah. Gawd. Can you freeze a couple and bring them to our next HP meeting!?!?!
I'll have to make these soon.
These look awesome!! They look completely addicting, thanks!
Thanks for stopping by! Those carrot cake cookies look fantastic!
I'm a new follower,
Aimee
What a yummy idea:-)
What a yummy treat for the summer munchies while everyone is home and relaxing. Thanks for sharing.
Wow those looks so good!!! And I am totally loving those cute colored carrots!! I am so planting some this fall.
Yummy!
Love,
Traci @ Ordinary Inspirations
(come see my frappe recipe!)
http://www.ordinaryinspirations.blogspot.com
love carrot cake and these to me would be like mini carrot cakes they would be awesome
Carrot cake cookies looks delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul hop.
What a fun idea. I love carrot cake and these little cookies look delish! Thanks for sharing as this is getting bookmarked for later.
This looks good. Would come over and share some of your recipes at my link party Cast Party Wednesday tomorrow?
Thanks,
I hope to see you there!
Carrot cake is one of my favorite desserts so I would love to try these cookies. That is awesome that you made them with carrots from your own garden :) I wanted to invite you to come over and share your recipe at These Chicks Cooked Recipe Spotlight today. Have a great day :)
Katie
Oh my goodness. It's one in the morning, and I should be going to bed, but instead I'm looking at your delicious food and my stomach is grumbling - because, well, there's NOTHING better than cookies (ESPECIALLY carrot cake!) I (surprisingly!) have all the ingredients for this, and will totally be making it in the morning!
Oh wow, what a treat! I love the way you have added ginger to these wonderful cookies, and sandwiching them together with that lovely filling is just inspired! Thank you for sharing them with Let's Do Brunch. They look just gorgeous!
these look fabulous! I must put them on my "to do" list of recipes!
These look so yummy! I love carrot cake deserts so I'm really excited to give this one a try!
-Rachel
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