Need clean eating breakfast idea? These skinny Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies are easy, yummy and healthy recipe, you must try it.
If you want to start a clean eating these cookies are perfect for beginners. The recipe is super simple and the cookies taste great.
Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies are soft and tender. They are like classic carrot cake transformed into easy and healthy cookies.
In order to make clean eating breakfast cookies, these simple recipe use only healthy ingredients: oatmeal, whole wheat flour, carrots and honey. Needless to say that whole wheat flour is much healthier than regular white flour. Also using honey as a natural sweetener is way much better than refined white sugar.
Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies are such a fun way to eat grains for breakfast. Besides grain, these cookies are loaded with carrots. This way you can trick your kids into eating some veggies, too. Kids won’t skip cookies, right?!
Therefore if you need clean eating breakfast or healthy snack for your kids, try these easy Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies. Kids will love them.
Also if you want healthy breakfast for yourself these cookies are very good choice. The recipe is very quick, simple and easy. These oatmeal cookies are great if you need make ahead breakfast. You can pack a few of these clean eating breakfast cookies and eat them on the go.
You don’t have to eat these cookies just as a breakfast or healthy snack, they are amazing as a dessert, too. But it’s healthy dessert, which is a win-win situation!!! After all these Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies are so tasty, you could never tell they’re healthy.
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Ingredients
1½ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup white whole wheat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
¼ tsp. salt
½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. ground cloves
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 cup quick oats (not instant)
¾ cup brown sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
1 cup coconut oil (or 2 sticks butter, softened)
2 large eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 cups grated carrot (3-4 carrots)
½ cup flaked coconut
¾ cup chopped walnuts
powdered sugar
milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350º F. In a medium bowl, combine flours, baking soda, salt, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon and oats. Mix well and set aside.
With a mixer, beat together sugars and coconut oil in a large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy.
Add carrots, coconut and walnuts; blend until combined. Batter will be a lumpy.
Add flour mixture and blend at a low speed until just combined. Do not overmix.
Drop by tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 13-15 minutes. Watch them so they don’t brown too much! Immediately transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
If you want your cookies a little sweeter, blend a small amount of powdered sugar with a small amount of milk in a bowl. Add milk or powdered sugar until to the perfect consistency you like. Drizzle it over the cookies and serve. Enjoy!