Oatmeal Carrot Cookies
These Oatmeal Carrot Cookies are soft, delicious and taste like carrot cake! Serve plain or with cream cheese frosting!
Servings 18 cookies
Calories 158kcal
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup shredded carrots See note
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts if desired
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together oats, flour, baking powder and soda, cinnamon, ginger, cloves and salt.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk cooled butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Add egg and vanilla and whisk well. Add carrots and nuts and stir in.
- Combine wet ingredients with ddry ingredients and stir until well incorporated.
- Cover bowl with cookie dough and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Scoop cookie dough with 1.5 tablespoon size cookie scoop. Place 2" apart on sheet.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Nine minutes was my magic number.
Notes
Shreed on the small hole side of your grater. You don't want long strings of carrots in your cookies. I do that in my The Best Moist Carrot Cake recipe too.
Nutrition
Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 106mg | Potassium: 97mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 1360IU | Vitamin C: 0.4mg | Calcium: 25mg | Iron: 0.8mg