Low Fat Carrot Cake Cookies

The sweet treats that are the most dangerous for me are anything dark chocolate or carrot cake.

Low fat carrot cake cookies. They turned out great except i like my carrot cake more spicy so next time i will try at least a tsp of cinnamon maybe a bit more nutmeg. I like a carrot cake that has what i would term good crumb along with great taste. Delia s low fat moist carrot cake recipe. In hindsight these healthy carrot cake cookie bars would ve been a much better option.

Add in the carrots applesauce water an raisins. Keto carrot cake cookies what s great about a healthy version of a carrot cake cookie is that it gives you built in portion control. Spray cookie sheets with non stick butter flavored cooking spray and drop by heaping teaspoonfuls onto the cookies sheets 1 1 2 inches apart from one another. Although i do recommend the frosting at least on a few of these cookies.

In a medium bowl whisk together flour baking powder baking soda salt and cinnamon. It almost uses what you have. When converting this recipe for sugar free carrot cake cookies from a gluten packed sugary one to a low carb cookie i took special care to consider the texture that a good cake type cookie should have by not changing the bulk of the ingredients any more than i had to but instead just replaced ingredients measure per measure when possible. I also left out the raisins to lower the sugar count.

Balance is the key to everything. Yet now as an adult i realize my family s easter bunny might have enjoyed santa s cookies more than plain carrots so i m finally combining the two for our family s easter bunny into these healthy carrot cake oatmeal breakfast cookies they have the same chewy texture as classic cookies but the sweetness level of muffins just in case the easter bunny taste tests a few too many. A few years ago i attempted a low fat version rather reluctantly not believing it was possible. Many use 100 all purpose flour and some a substituted some whole wheat flour.

I have been making carrot cake for years and each time it seems to improve with a little tinkering here and there. Much better than a lot of full fat carrot cake. Soft chewy and everything you love about carrot cake cookies minus the high carbs. They re supremely soft and chewy with the same sweet carrots and warm spices as traditional carrot cake yet this recipe yields far fewer servings than the recipe i followed for that particular easter dessert.

These keto friendly carrot cake cookies are packed with the warm spices of cinnamon ginger and nutmeg. Ketocookies lowcarbcookies. It s also one of the quickest easiest cakes ever. Some recipes used cake flour.

And they re texture is spot on. Preheat oven to 350f and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Did i mention these cookies are also gluten free vegan and low fat without the frosting.