Carrot Cake Cookies

Name: Carrot Cake Cookies
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200 g (7 oz) icing (powdered) sugar; 30 g (1 oz) maple syrup; ½ tsp ground nutmeg; 80 g (2¾ oz) roughly chopped pecans; 30 g (1 oz) cream cheese; 1 tsp baking powder; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 140 g (5 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted; 140 g (5 oz) strong white bread flour, sifted; 55 g (2 oz) freshly grated carrot; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 1 tsp sea salt; 140 g (5 oz) softened unsalted butter; 1 egg; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 140 g (5 oz) light brown sugar; 110 g (3¾ oz) caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

Makes
10
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

GET BAKED

By Rich Myers

Published 2023

About

It’s just occurred to me that carrots aren’t a fruit, and they’re in the fruit chapter. Problem is, we don’t have a vegetable chapter, and we can’t make one just for this cookie. Please join me in momentarily pretending that carrots are a fruit. To be fair, they are one of your five-a-day and they’re orange. So yeah, carrots.

Ingredients

140 g (5 oz) softened unsalted butter
110 g (3¾

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Cookies
Mediterranean

Method

Cream the butter and sugars together in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the beater attachment until pale and fluffy. Add the vanilla to your egg, then add to the butter and sugar mixture. Mix for 1 minute or until emulsified, then scrape down the base and sides of the bowl. Weigh out the flours, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), salt, grated carrot, cinnamon, nutmeg and ch