Carrot Cookies

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Carrot Cookies, Carrot Cookies with Orange Glaze

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 15

Cooling Time: 30

Servings:

Calories: 153kcal

Ingredients

For Cookies:

⅔ cup Butter softened
¾ cup Sugar
1 cup Carrots cooked and mashed
1 Egg
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 teaspoon Orange Zest
2 cups All Purpose Flour
¼ teaspoon Salt
2 teaspoons Baking Powder

For Orange Glaze:

¼ cup Orange Juice hot (heat up in microwave for 15-20 seconds or heat on stove top over low heat)
2 cups Powdered Sugar
Zest of 1 large or 2 small oranges 1 teaspoon used in cookie dough

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
With a mixer, beat butter and sugar until crumbly.
Add carrots, egg, vanilla and orange zest to sugar mixture and beat until well mixed.
Sift flour, salt and baking powder. Then, gradually add to dough, mixing well.
Drop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheet.
Bake 15 minutes until golden.
Make glaze while cookies are cooling by combining hot orange juice and powdered sugar. Stir until all lumps are smooth, then stir in zest.
Drizzle glaze on top of cooled cookies.
Sprinkle with additional orange zest for garnish (if desired).

Notes

To Cook & Mash Carrots: Peel 3 large carrots and cut them up into medium sized pieces. Boil them until soft and tender, then mash them up with a potato masher until they are smooth.

*These soft cookies are not super sweet and go well with coffee and are also good for a quick breakfast.

*This soft dough doesn’t work well with a cookie scoop. It works better dropped from a spoon.

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