Do you love carrot cake as much as we do? How about cookies? If you said both, this recipe is definitely for you.

We combined our favorite carrot cake spices with our best sugar cookie recipe to create a chewy carrot cake cookie recipe that will melt in your mouth.

The combination of carrot, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves is perfect for a holiday celebration. And rather than baking a whole carrot cake, cookies are much easier to store and transport to holiday parties and cookie exchanges.

Using carrots will give your cookies a moist, dense texture. Carrots also enhance the flavor and appearance of your baked items. This is why these chewy carrot cake cookies taste so darn good!

The chopped walnuts and cream cheese frosting keep with tradition in this twist on the every day carrot cake.

When your cookies are fresh out of the oven, the flecks of spices, carrot and walnuts will practically scream, eat me! Enjoy!

Several delicious chewy carrot cake cookies stacked on top of each other.

Chewy Carrot Cake Cookies Recipe

We’ve combined a carrot cake with a sugar cookie to create our chewy carrot cake cookies recipe. The cream cheese icing is a great compliment to the spices!

Ingredients
 

Yield: 36 cookies
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Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Cream butter and sugar in mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; stir to just combine.
  • Sift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove in separate bowl. Combine wet and dry ingredients then fold in carrots and walnuts.
  • Scoop heaping tablespoon size dough ball on greased baking sheet spaced 2" apart.
  • Bake 12-15 minutes then cool on wire rack.
  • Cream butter, cream cheese and powdered sugar until smooth. Stir in vanilla and salt.
  • Spread frosting on cooled cookies.

Notes

Grate your own carrots! I know it’s easy to buy a pre-packed bag at the grocery store, but they are usually too dry for baking.
Calories: 207kcal, Carbohydrates: 21g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 13g, Saturated Fat: 7g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g, Monounsaturated Fat: 3g, Cholesterol: 42mg, Sodium: 175mg, Potassium: 49mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 15g
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Chewy carrot cake cookies recipe