Soft, spiced, and packed with shredded carrots, these sandwich cookies bake up with crisp edges and a chewy center. The cookies that stay tender, perfect for holding a thick layer of tangy cream cheese filling. The rich frosting contrasts with the warm spices and sweet carrots, making each bite just the right mix of smooth, chewy, and sweet. It’s everything you love about carrot cake—just in a handheld form.
Carrot Cake You Can Eat with Your Hands
These amazing cookies have a chewy oatmeal cookie texture and are sturdy enough to make into a sandwich cookie without the cookie falling apart when you bite into it. Each bite has the spice mixture you expect in a carrot cake with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. And seriously, is there anything better than a cream cheese frosting!
This is the perfect addition to an Easter or Mother’s Day brunch or any Spring get together. But it doesn’t have to be Spring to enjoy carrot cake oatmeal cookies, you can make them all year long. Try adding some homemade sandwich cookies to your Christmas cookie platter.
With these carrot cake sandwich cookies, you can get all the aromatic spices of carrot cake and the yummy cream cheese frosting, in a smallish cookie form. This cookie dough needs to chill, so plan ahead.
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If you’re thinking more of a bar recipe instead of a cookie, carrot cake cheesecake bars will give you a similar flavor profile. Or if you want to try more sandwich cookies, you’ll love creamy peanut butter cookies.
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- All the flavors of a carrot cake
- A melt-in-your-mouth cream cheese filling
- You can frost just one cookie or make them into sandwich cookies
- You get all the things you love about a slice of carrot cake without the need for a fork
What’s in This Recipe
- Carrots – you won’t be able to use pre-cut carrots because they are too thick. Instead grate the carrots using the small holes in a box grater.
- Rolled Oats – Old fashioned not instant rolled oats.
- Raisins – these add a nice sweetness, you could also add a handful of chopped walnuts or pecans.
- Spices – cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg
- Pantry items – butter, brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking soda and baking powder.
- Frosting – cream cheese, butter, powdered sugar and vanilla.
Step by Step Directions
Step 1: Make the dough
Step 2: Scoop and bake
Step 3: Frost
Make these even better by using a brown butter cream cheese frosting!
Step 4: Make a sandwich
Spread the frosting on the bottom of one cookie and add another cookie to make a sandwich. In the alternative, you can frost the top of the cookie without making a sandwich.
Once assembled the carrot cake oatmeal cookies will need to be refrigerated since the frosting has cream cheese and butter. If you want to freeze them, place them in an air-tight container with parchment paper between the cookies.
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Cream Cheese Filled Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs room temp
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- 2 cups old fashioned oatmeal
- 1 ½ cups carrots 2-3, finely grated
- 1 cup raisins
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
- 8 ounces cream cheese
- ½ cup butter room temp
- 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Equipment
Instructions
- With an electric mixer, beat butter and sugars on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until well combined.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Gradually add to butter mixture mixing until just combined. Mix in oats, carrots and raisins. Chill for at least 1 hour, until firm.
- Preheat oven to 350º and line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Using an ice cream scoop, shape dough into balls using about 1-2 tablespoons of dough. Place on cookie sheets and bake for 12-15 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack.
- FROSTING: Use a hand mixer to beat the cream cheese until smooth, add butter and beat until well blended. Add powdered sugar and vanilla and continue beating until smooth.
- Place as much frosting as you like on half of the cookies and sandwich them together.
Barbara’s Tips + Notes
- Use the small holes of a box grater to grate the carrots, don’t use pre-grated carrots, they are too thick.
- You can just frost each cookie instead of making them into sandwich cookies.
- These freeze great and since they’re a chewy cookie they don’t take long to thaw.
- Store these in the refrigerator or freezer.
Nutrition
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tiffany says
This may be an odd question but is the nutrition information for one cookie?
Barbara Curry says
It is for one cookie sandwich.