Paleo Carrot Cake Cookies
These decadent Paleo Carrot Cake Cookies taste like carrot cake and take just 15 minutes to make! Made with almond flour, carrots, coconut and cinnamon and no no refined oil or sugar these cookies are grain free, gluten free, Paleo and Vegan with a low calorie option too.
Servings: 14 cookies
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
- 1/2 cup Olive Oil or oil of choice
- 3/4 cup Brown Calorie Free Sugar or sugar of choice
- 1 Egg room temperature
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 1/4 cups Almond Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg ground
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 3/4 cup Carrots grated and moisture squeezed out
- 1/2 cup Raisins roughly chopped
For the Glaze:
- 2 ounces Light Cream Cheese room temperature
- 2 tablespoons Maple Syrup
- 1 tablespoon Low Fat Milk or milk of choice
- 1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Using a standing mixer or hand mixer, beat the oil and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Then add the egg and vanilla extract and beat.
- Add the almond flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt to the wet ingredients and fold in by hand. Add the carrots and raisins and mix until incorporated.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- After refrigerating the dough, preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper. Use a medium cookie scoop to form the dough into cookies by pressing the dough down slightly onto the pan.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes or just beginning to turn golden brown around the edges.
- While the cookies bake, mix together the ingredients for the glaze in a small mixing bowl or using a food processor.
- Transfer the cream cheese glaze into a small Ziplock bag or piping bag for baking. Snip of the end of the bag and drizzle over the cooled cookies
Notes
- For the shredded carrots, I pulsed carrots in my food processor until lightly shredded.
- If using coconut oil, melt the oil and let it sit at room temperature before mixing with the sugar.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 211kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.001g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 148mg | Potassium: 89mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1187IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg