These healthy carrot cake cookies have raisins, lemon zest, ginger and walnuts in them. No sugar, no butter, still completely delicious and guilt-free.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time10 minutesmins
Total Time25 minutesmins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: carrot cake cookies, healthy carrot cake cookies
Preheat oven to 375 degrees, line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silpat.
Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl and mix well.
In a small bowl combine coconut oil, apple butter and maple syrup. Whisk together until smooth.
Add wet ingredients to the large bowl and mix until thoroughly combined with a spatula.
Roll dough into golf ball sized balls, place on baking sheet and gently press down to form disc shape. Cookies won't flatten or spread much with baking.
Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
For the icing:
Stir the cream cheese, almond butter and stevia together in a small bowl. Slowly add almond milk until mixture is thinned out enough to drizzle on cookies. Drizzle cooled cookies with icing before serving.
Notes
Omit icing for vegan version, use paleo cream cheese icing from these paleo carrot cake cookies or, use a vegan cream cheese substitute.