Carrot Cake Cookies
These Carrot Cake Cookies are soft, chewy, and incredibly easy to make using a simple cake mix. With warm spices, shredded carrots, and topped with cream cheese frosting, they deliver all the classic flavors of carrot cake with minimal effort!
Servings: 20 Cookies
Calories: 226kcal
Ingredients
- 1 Box Carrot Cake Mix
- 2 eggs
- ⅓ cup butter melted
Optional Ingredients
- 1 Medium Carrot- grated ½ cup
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛ th teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ⅛ th teaspoon ground cloves
Cream Cheese Frosting
- ½ cup butter softened to room temp
- 4 oz cream cheese softened to room temp
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 5 tbs heavy cream
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- Pinch of salt
Optional Decorating Items
- Orange and Green Food Coloring
- Piping Bag
- Small Writing Tip
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl combine the carrot cake mix, eggs, melted butter, shredded carrots, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves.1 Box Carrot Cake Mix, 2 eggs, ⅓ cup butter, 1 Medium Carrot- grated, ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon ground ginger, ⅛ th teaspoon ground nutmeg, ⅛ th teaspoon ground cloves
- Scoop out cookie dough and place on prepared baking sheet. For perfect round cookies see notes below. *
- Bake for 9-11* minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool.
- While baking whip up the cream cheese frosting. Combine the butter and cream cheese in the bowl of an electric mixer and cream until light and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla, heavy cream, and salt and whip on high for a few minutes. Then mix in the powdered sugar one cup at a time.½ cup butter, 4 oz cream cheese, 2 teaspoon vanilla, 5 tbs heavy cream, 5 cups powdered sugar, Pinch of salt
- Scoop out 1 cup of frosting and split into two bowls, one bowl getting ⅔rds cup and orange food coloring and the other ⅓rd cup frosting and green food coloring.Orange and Green Food Coloring
- Top the cookies with white cream cheese frosting, pipe on a little carrot, and enjoy!Piping Bag, Small Writing Tip
Notes
Tips and Tricks
- *To get a nice round cookie, use a cookie/ice cream scoop since the batter tends to be very sticky.
- *If you are using butter, you will only need to bake the cookies for 9 minutes. If you are using oil, I find baking them for 11 minutes will help them to be a bit thicker/not as flat.
- *Using oil instead of butter tends to make the cookies flat and not nice and thick. Just keep that in mind if you substitute.
Nutrition
Calories: 226kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 47mg | Sodium: 89mg | Potassium: 31mg | Fiber: 0.1g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 901IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 15mg | Iron: 0.1mg