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    Easy Carrot Cake Cookies Recipe

    Updated: Mar 22, 2022 · Published: Apr 23, 2018 · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Easy Carrot Cake Cookies are a fun and easy twist on the classic moist, spicy, cream cheese-frosted cake so many people love. Don’t tell your kids they’re carrot cookies; just let them enjoy the sweet tang of the cream cheese frosting.

    These Easy Carrot Cake Cookies are great for gatherings where you don’t want to carry, cut, and serve a traditional carrot cake. Single-serving desserts like Easy Carrot Cake Cookies make transport and clean-up quick and easy!

    Three Ways to Shred Carrots Quickly

    • Use a box grater. A box grater sits very stably on your cutting board or counter top which allows you to get the job done without grating your fingers.
    • Use a food processor. You can process a pile of carrots into lovely shreds in seconds with a food processor that has a grating blade. If you give the processor bowl and blade a quick rinse after you’re done, the clean-up is quick too.
    • Buy already shredded carrots. Bring home a bag of pre-shredded carrots and this Easy Carrot Cake Cookies recipe practically makes itself.

    Step Up Your Frosting Game for Easy Carrot Cake Cookies

    It’s not hard to add a little pizazz to storebought frosting if you want to do something a little fun. Use a spatula to scrape the store bought frosting into a bowl and experiment with adding small amounts of vanilla extract, lemon zest, or food coloring. Make the recipe your own by adding your own little twist.

    If you want to make it from scratch use our Easy Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe. (Easy Carrot Cake Cookies and Easy Cream Cheese Frosting... notice a theme here?)

    hand holding carrot cake cookies with white frosting on top

    How to Make Easy Carrot Cake Cookies Step-by-Step

    Step #1: Gather your ingredients before you start so you can throw these together quickly.

    • 1 cup salted butter
    • 1 cup sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 3 cups all purpose flour
    • 2 ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups carrots, grated
    • 1 cup pecans, chopped
    • 1 container (small) pre-made cream cheese frosting

    Easy carrot cake cookies recipe ingredients gathered on the counter

    Step #2: Preheat the oven to 375.

    Step #3: Spray a whoopie pie pan (which is what we used) or other cookie sheet with non-stick spray.

    Carrot cake cookies wet ingredients creamed together in a bowl

    Step #4: In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients.  Cream the butter, sugars and eggs together. Add the vanilla and mix.

    Dry carrot cake cookies ingredients added to the wet ingredients in the bowl

    Step #5: Mix in the cinnamon, baking powder, soda, and salt. Add in flour and mix well.

    Thoroughly mixed carrot cake cookies batter in the bowl

    Step #6: Fold in shredded carrot.

    Step #7: Once the batter is thoroughly mixed, drop into greased whoopie pie pan.

    carrot cake cookies batter inside a muffin tin

    Step #8: Bake at 375° for 13-15 minutes. Remove from oven, allow to fully cool, and frost with cream cheese frosting.  Decorate with chopped pecans around the edges of the cookies.

    carrot cake cookies baked and covered with cream cheese frosting and pecans around edges

    An Easy Carrot Cake Cookies Variation

    Instead of frosting each cookie individually and adding pecan pieces, try making a carrot cake cookie whoopie pie by adding a thick layer of cream cheese frosting onto a carrot cake cookie and adding another carrot cake cookie on top. Yum!

    Looking for more cookie recipes?

    Don't just stop at Easy Carrot Cake Cookies! Try these recipes:

    • Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Healthy Pumpkin Cookies Kids Love
    • Carmel Stuffed Salted Pretzel Cookies

    Easy Carrot Cake Cookies

    All She Cooks
    A fun twist on traditional carrot cake.
    5 from 2 votes
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    Prep Time 25 mins
    Cook Time 15 mins
    Total Time 40 mins
    Course Dessert, Desserts
    Cuisine American
    Servings 2 doz
    Calories 2564 kcal

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 1 cup salted butter
    • 1 cup sugar
    • ½ cup brown sugar
    • 2 eggs
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla
    • 3 cups all purpose flour
    • 2 ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • 2 cups carrots grated
    • 1 cup pecans chopped
    • 1 container small pre-made cream cheese frosting

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven to 375.  Spray a whoopie pie pan (which is what we used) or other cookie sheet with non-stick spray.  
    • In a large bowl, mix the wet ingredients.  Cream the butter, sugars and eggs together.  Add the vanilla and mix.
    • Mix in the cinnamon, baking powder, soda, and salt. Add in flour and mix well.
    • Fold in shredded carrots.
    • Bake 13-15 minutes.
    • Allow to fully cool and frost with cream cheese frosting.  Decorate with chopped pecans around the edges of the cookies.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 2564kcalCarbohydrates: 319gProtein: 32gFat: 134gSaturated Fat: 63gCholesterol: 408mgSodium: 2323mgPotassium: 974mgFiber: 15gSugar: 163gVitamin A: 24485IUVitamin C: 8mgCalcium: 343mgIron: 12mg
    Keyword Carrot Cake Cookies, how to make Carrot Cake Cookies
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