Healthy Carrot Cake Cookies

Packed with good for you ingredients, these healthy carrot cake cookies are awesome for breakfast or dessert! Perfectly chewy and filled with carrots, pecans, coconut and raisins. Dairy free, gluten free and vegetarian.

Three Healthy Carrot Cake Cookies on a white plate with coffee to the side.

It’s Monday morning and we’re talking cookies.  Because cookies make everything better.  

They will cheer you up from those Monday-morning-start-of-the-week blues.  

If we’re being technical, it’s actually Sunday night as I’m writing this.  When that storm cloud settles in and you realize that the fun of the weekend is coming to a close.

But, cookies.  Healthier cookies!

A baking sheet filled with Healthy Carrot Cookies.

Healthier carrot cake cookies to be exact. 

These are basically just a slight twist on my healthy chocolate chip cookies that I made a few months back.  

I tweaked the base recipe just a tad by altering the ratio of honey to maple syrup, making these a bit sturdier than the chocolate chip ones.  Because I’m a perfectionist and that always bothered me about my original recipe.

And then I went ahead and stuffed these with the good stuff – shredded carrots, plenty of juicy raisins, lots of coconut and a nice amount of spice.

So go ahead and enjoy one of these bad boys warm straight from the oven – with no guilt.  

They will help beat even the worst of the Monday blues.

A baking sheet filled with Carrot Oatmeal Cookies with one missing.

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Healthy Carrot Cake Cookies

Yield: about 15 to 18 cookies
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes
Total Time: 32 minutes

Packed with good for you ingredients, these healthy carrot cake cookies are awesome for breakfast or dessert! Perfectly chewy and filled with carrots, pecans, coconut and raisins. Dairy free, gluten free and vegetarian.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour OR 1 cup almond meal*
  • 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
  • ½ cup ground flaxseed
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
  • ¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons honey
  • ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
  • 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil**
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ¼ cup raisins
  • ¼ cup unsweetened coconut flakes or shredded coconut
  • ¼ cup chopped raw pecans
  • 1 medium carrot, shredded

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the whole wheat pastry flour (or almond meal), oats, flaxseed, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and sea salt. In a medium bowl, whisk together the maple syrup, honey, applesauce, coconut oil and vanilla extract.
  3. Add the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry and mix until just combined. Gently fold in the raisins, coconut, pecans and shredded carrot.
  4. Scoop about 1 ½ to 2 tablespoons of dough and drop onto the prepared cookie sheet (I used my large cookie scoop). Gently flatten the cookies slightly. You can space them pretty close together as they won’t really spread while baking.
  5. Bake for about 11 to 13 minutes, until lightly golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool directly on the baking sheet for 10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Notes

*Make sure that you use either the whole wheat pastry flour OR the almond meal (do not use both!). It works great either way but the dough will be slightly wetter with the almond meal (again, it still works, just make sure you measure everything correctly).

To keep these gluten free - use the almond meal and not the pastry flour.

**Melt the coconut oil first and then measure out the 3 tablespoons (otherwise you may use too much).

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 156Total Fat: 11gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 106mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 3gSugar: 6gProtein: 3g

Nutrition data shown is an estimate provided by an online calculator and is for informational purposes only. It should not be considered a substitute for a medical professional’s advice. Nutrition info shown uses the almond meal and not the pastry flour.