Kid-Friendly Easy Carrot Cookies
Kids will love making and eating these fun and healthy carrot cookies!
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 + 1/4 cup whole-wheat flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup + 2 tbsps honey
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded carrots
- 1 cup rolled oats
Frosting
- 8 oz low-fat cream cheese
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tbsp carrot juice
- 1 tsp liquid chlorophyll
- 1/2 cup shredded carrots (optional)
Instructions
To make the cookies...
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Preheat the oven to 375. Grease two baking sheets.
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In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt. In a large bowl, mix together the applesauce, honey, egg, and vanilla. Add the 1 cup carrots, oats, and flour mixture to the large bowl. Mix well.
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Put a spoonful of batter on the baking sheet. Shape the batter into a long triangle for the carrot. Shape leaves from the batter at the end of the carrot. Flatten the cookie. Make more carrot-shaped cookies with the remaining batter. Bake 14 minutes. Let cool.
To make the frosting, and frost the cookies...
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Mix the cream cheese, honey, and vanilla together in a bowl. Divide the mixture into two bowls. Put 3/4th of the mixture into one bowl and 1/4th of the mixture into the other bowl. Add the carrot juice to the bowl with 3/4th of the cream cheese mixture. Add the liquid chlorophyll to the other bowl. Stir both bowls.
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Put the green frosting in a plastic bag. Cut off the corner of the bag. Frost the leaves. Put the orange frosting in a plastic bag. Cut off the corner of the bag. Frost the carrots. Optional: top the orange frosting with the 1/2 cup shredded carrots.
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Chill the cookies for 10 minutes.
Recipe Notes
You don't have to shape these cookies to look like carrots. Think orange! This is a great Halloween cookie to make into the shape of a pumpkin.
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