Easy Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

With Easter, this weekend, and spring in the air these soft carrot cake cookies are a must-have dessert.

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The ingredient list for the carrot cake cookies is simple, the cookies are quick to make and so delicious.

Carrot Cake Cookies

This recipe is a perfect one to let the kids help you make. First mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl or mixer.

Add in all of the wet ingredients and mix well. The dough is really runny, similar in texture to cake batter.

You can add raisins to the cookies if you would like. No one at our house likes raisins so they aren’t included in our cookie recipe.

Place scoops of the dough on a greased cookie sheet. The cookies don’t grow very much in size so you can put these cookies closer together.

Bake the cookies at 350 for 10-12 minutes until done. The cookies will be a darker color and have a firmer texture when done.

Let the carrot cake cookies cool while you mix up the frosting.

Mix all of the ingredients together until creamy. Put the frosting into a sandwich bag or piping bag.

Once the cookies are cool pipe the frosting onto the cookies. I like doing a zig-zag design across the cookies so they aren’t covered in to much frosting.

Store the cookies in an airtight container in the fridge. These cookies also freeze really well.

Yield: 2 Dozen Cookies

Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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These soft carrot cake cookies are a fun twist on the classic carrot cake.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

Carrot Cake Cookies

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• 1 1/2 C Apple Sauce
• 1/2 C Carrots , Shredded
• 1/2 C Oil
• 2 C Flour
• 1/2 C Sugar
• 1/4 C Brown Sugar
• 2 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• Raisins , Optional

Cream Cheese Frosting

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• 8 oz Cream Cheese, Softened
• 3/4 C Powdered Sugar
• 2 Tbs. Salted Butter, Softened
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla
• 2 Tbs Milk

Instructions

Cookies

1. Mix together all dry ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Add in wet ingredients. Mix well.
3. Bake 10-12 minutes at 350.
4. You can fit about 12 cookies per cookie sheet. 
5. Let cookies cool completely before frosting. 

Frosting

1. Cream together all ingredients with a mixer. Cream until smooth.
2. Put frosting in a piping bag or sandwich bag to easily frost cookies.

Notes

Cookies store best in an airtight container in the fridge. 

These cookies freeze well. 

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

2

Serving Size:

1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g

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