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We are sharing with you the best healthy carrot cake cookies recipe. It’s gluten free, refined sugar free and dairy free!
You will fall in love with these healthy carrot cake cookies. You don’t even notice that they are actually extremely healthy for you, because they are so flavorful and delicious! Made with shredded carrot, oats, coconut sugar, almond flour, delicious spices. These carrot cake cookies will be a hit for family and friends. We like eating them for dessert, but they are even more delicious as a breakfast cookie too!
The Inspiration Behind Making The Best Healthy Carrot Cake Cookie Recipe
You will fall in love with these healthy carrot cake cookies. If you follow us on Instagram, you probably saw and participated in the poll asking you what recipe you preferred us make. The poll gave the choice of a healthy carrot cake muffin or a healthy carrot cake cookie. A majority of you said that you wanted a carrot cake cookie recipe!
So, we decided to make the best healthy carrot cake cookies to date!
What’s in the carrot cake cookies?
We created this super simple recipe, and love the way the cookies taste! The classic combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, carrots and raisins are all present in this cookie. It is so delicious, AND it’s refined sugar free, gluten free and dairy free!
We used out favorite gluten-free oats in this recipe–Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Rolled Oats! We used the gluten-free oats to make homemade oat flour. Oat flour is so easy to make and gives the cookie a delicious flavor! We tell you how you can make oat flour yourself in the recipe notes below!
Note’s About this Recipe
These cookies are a bit thicker in texture than your average cookie, but they are still so delicious. You could even make these for breakfast and eat them while you drink your morning coffee!
This recipe is perfect for the spring and summer time. You can make these for any Easter gathering or spring-time barbecue.
We decorated our cookies with frosting and sprinkles for Easter, but feel free to decorate with spring or summertime colors to fit the occasion or leave them plain.
The Best Healthy Carrot Cake Cookies (GF and Refined Sugar Free)
This cookie recipe is refined sugar and dairy free!
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 12 cookies 1x
Ingredients
Cookie Dough Ingredients
- 1 cup GF rolled oats
- 1 cup GF oat flour
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup coconut oil (melted)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3/4 cup shredded carrot
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
Coconut Cream Icing Ingredients
- 1 can coconut cream
- 1 tsp Swerve powdered sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F and line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowel, combine oats, oat flour*(see note below), almond flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt.
- In a medium bowl, cream by whisking eggs, maple syrup, melted coconut oil and vanilla.
- Slowly, add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Then, fold in shredded carrots.
- Use an ice cream scoop to form the cookies. Bake for 18-22 minutes.
- While cookies are baking prepare your icing. Add solid coconut cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla to a mixing bowl. Beat ingredients with an electric mixer on low for about 3 minutes. Stop when you see soft peaks forming. Refrigerate frosting for 30 mins.
- Once cookies are baked and cooled completely, spread frosting on top of each cookie.
- Decorate cookies with chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts), Easter sugar candies, or sprinkles.
Notes
- To make your own oat flour, pour your oats in a blender of Nutribullet. Blend oats until they are a fine flour texture. Viola, you have oat flour!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Appetizer, Breakfast, Dessert
- Cuisine: American
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