Carrot Cake Cookie Recipe
With the use of a boxed cake mix, these Carrot Cake Cookies are so easy to make. Topped with homemade cream cheese frosting, they're hard to resist!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cup grated carrots (about 4 carrots)
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Frosting
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- green food coloring
- orange food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In a medium bowl, combine butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Beat until combined and creamy. Add eggs and vanilla making sure to mix well.
- Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and beat to combine. Fold in carrots and chopped pecans and mix until combined.
- Drop dough scoops onto greased cookie sheet. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Edges should be lightly browned. Let cool.
- Make frosting by combing cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla and beating until smooth. Reserve a little bit of the frosting for carrot design on top.
- Frost cookies. Use food coloring to dye parts of the reserve frosting green and orange. Pipe carrot design onto cookies.
Nutrition
Calories: 352kcalCarbohydrates: 45gProtein: 3gFat: 19gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 55mgSodium: 241mgPotassium: 96mgFiber: 1gSugar: 34gVitamin A: 2286IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 31mgIron: 1mg
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