Carrot Cake Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

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Easter will be here soon enough. You may be trying to come up with some fun dessert ideas to serve-up on Easter.  This is one of them.  These Carrot Cake Cookies are a soft, spiced carrot cake cookie adorned with sweet cream cheese- white chocolate frosting.  It’s exactly the sort of combination you might picture a good carrot cake having.

Here’s what you need for the cookies.  Not a lot.  These are a simple cookie, and they are easy to make.

How to make Carrot Cake Cookies:

Use a mixer to combine sugar and butter. Then add the egg and stir in the pretty orange grated carrots.

Mix the dry ingredients (flour + spices) in a separate bowl.  Sometimes I use a whisk to mix dry ingredients, but more often than not I turn a spoon upside-down and use the spoon handle to mix.  Am I alone here?  Anyone else do this?

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and here’s what you’ll have.  The dough looks kind of funky at this point, but don’t worry… it will all be fabulous after you give it a quick chill in the refrigerator.

Scoop rounded spoonfuls of the dough and plop them on your baking sheets.  I like to use a cookie scoop for this so I can get nice, round dollops that are all pretty darn even in size.

Here’s what your cookies will look like when they come out of the oven.  I love that the carrots peek out all over the place.

As sweet as that splash of carrot orange looks in the cookies, they’re much better when you add cream cheese frosting.  After all, that’s what makes a carrot cake, right?

We need to talk about what I DIDN’T include in these carrot cake cookies.  NUTS.  I don’t do nuts in cookies.  RAISINS.  I don’t really do raisins much at all, but especially not in cookies.  You can certainly add nuts and raisins to your carrot cake cookies if you’re into having all of that extra stuff in there.  I’m just into cake and frosting myself!  Enjoy!

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Carrot Cake Cookies

By RecipeGirl.com

Delicious cookies dressed with cream cheese frosting, just like a good carrot cake.

Prep: 30 minutes mins

Cook: 10 minutes mins

Chill Time:: 1 hour hr

Total: 1 hour hr 40 minutes mins

Servings: 30 cookies

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Ingredients

COOKIES:

• ▢ 1 cup granulated white sugar
• ▢ ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, at room temperature
• ▢ 1 large egg
• ▢ 1 cup finely grated carrot
• ▢ 2 cups all purpose flour
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ▢ ½ teaspoon ground cloves
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt

FROSTING:

• ▢ 2 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
• ▢ 2 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 2 tablespoons white chocolate chips, melted and stirred until smooth
• ▢ ⅓ cup powdered sugar
• ▢ 1 tablespoon milk (or more, as needed- to thin out as desired)

Instructions 

MAKE THE COOKIES:

• In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the sugar and butter until semi-smooth. Mix in the egg. Stir in the carrot. In a separate bowl, use a whisk to combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until well combined. Cover the bowl and refrigerate for at least one hour (or overnight).
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silpat mats. Drop dough by rounded spoonfuls onto the lined baking sheets, spacing the cookies at least 2-inches apart. I like to use a cookie scoop for my dough so the baked cookies will turn out as round and perfect as possible. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cookies are baked through and set. Let cool on the cookie sheets for 10 minutes before transferring them to a baking rack to cool completely.

MAKE THE FROSTING:

• In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the cream cheese and butter. Mix until smooth. Mix in vanilla and melted chocolate. Mix in the powdered sugar, then add 1 tablespoon milk to thin out the mixture (add more milk or more powdered sugar, if needed). You want the frosting to be somewhat of a drizzling consistency (unless you'd prefer to spread the frosting on the cookies). Transfer the frosting to a zip baggie, cut a tiny hole in the corner of the baggies and squeeze the frosting into the corner to drizzle onto the cooled cookies. Let the frosting set- it might not set completely, so store them in a single layer.

Notes

• For freezing: Place a single layer of cookies in a container, stick it in the freezer until the cookies/frosting are firm. Place waxed paper on top of the cookies. Make a second layer of cookies and freeze again. Repeat until all of your cookies are in the container with layers of wax paper in between.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 113kcal, Carbohydrates: 16g, Protein: 1g, Fat: 5g, Saturated Fat: 3g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 19mg, Sodium: 123mg, Potassium: 33mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 9g, Vitamin A: 871IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 10mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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