Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Carrot Cake Cookies

I should never have made these cookies. It was a very bad idea, and now I’m stuck with having eaten them. Ordinarily, I bake cookies and happily share them because they’re just cookies. Not so with these babies. Carrot cake cookies sandwiched together with cream cheese frosting do not get shared so much as they get devoured very, very quickly. These are from Martha Stewart's Cookies, and as I’ve said before, every cookie in that book looks similarly devourable.

These have all the things a carrot cake might have like grated fresh carrots, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and raisins. For no particular reason, I reduced the amount of raisins and added some chopped pecans. I guess if there were a reason, it would be that my favorite carrot cake recipe has nuts in it so I wanted some in these cookies too. Since they get sandwiched, it’s convenient if they’re all the same size. I used a small ice cream scoop to place the dough on the baking sheets in even-sized mounds. The recipe suggests chilling the dough before scooping, but chilled dough is more difficult to spoon out of the bowl. So, I placed the dough mounds on sheets, and then chilled the baking sheets before putting them in the oven.

The cream cheese frosting is basic, straightforward, and as delicious as it always is. Once these were filled with frosting and finished, I realized this would be the first cookie I would prefer to eat from the refrigerator. This is interesting because Kurt is a cold cookie kind of guy. Even chocolate chip. He prefers them straight from the refrigerator, and I don’t understand it. For me, chocolate chip cookies are only worth eating directly from the oven. The refrigerator doesn’t even enter the picture. But here, cream cheese frosting necessitates refrigeration. I can tell you that these are by far my favorite cold cookie, and I have many, many extra calories to burn this week.


27 comments:

  1. Is there ever a bad sandwich cookie? No, never.

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  2. I made these for my clients about six months ago and they went crazy for them. You really can't got wrong with that cookbook!

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  3. Oh, these look incredible! And they remind me of whoopie pies, but with carrots, so you might be able to reason that they're a "healthier" choice. ;)

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  4. Those cookies look really good! What a great idea!

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  5. wow, I really want to try this recipe but I'm afraid to eat all of them too :-O

    thanks for sharing it with us

    heidi

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  6. Wow! These look SO GOOD! You are right not to share them :) I most definitely plan on making these very soon.

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  7. Carrot Cake Cookies? I'm not much of a baker, but I'd even to make these just so I can sample one (or more) for myself. :)

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  8. Now you see, this is why I don't bake. I would weigh 500 pounds if these babies were hanging around the kitchen. Carrot cake is my favorite cake in the world. My wedding cake was carrot cake. Curse that Martha Stewart. I'm going to have to make these aren't I?

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  9. carrot cake is my favorite type of cake, hands-down, and cream cheese icing is consumed by the spatula-full in my presence. i would eat way too many of these cookies, and only regret it for a second. :)

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  10. Ooo, carrot cake sandwich cookies - how cool! They look just scrumptious!

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  11. Yum, I do like cold cookies. Not frozen, just cold and chewy. My list of cookbooks to borrow or buy has expanded exponentially since I started reading your blog, but that's a good thing :)

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  12. wow your blog is ridiculous and i LOVE it. Those carrot cookies look amazing!!! Thank you for sharing the recipe...and sorry you feel like you have to get stuck eating them, I will gladly welcome them in my home!

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  13. These are beautiful! My husband is a huge carrot cake fan, so I need to make them soon.

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  14. I think I would want to eat all these myself and growl at a even hint of an appreciative glance.

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  15. That sounds like the perfect carrot cake. It has a much better cream to cake ratio and I think I'd like the denser texture of cookies with the cream cheese anyhow. Nicely don!

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  16. Never had carrot cookies. I've only tried carrot cookies but they look just as good. Very lovely.

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  17. Oh my goodness, these look so good! Wasn't yesterday national carrot cake day? I love cream cheese frosting, I have to save this!

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  18. Thanks for sharing they look great.

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  19. They look so pretty and so elegant! :D

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  20. These look delicious! Something I'll add to my "tryouts". Bye and greetings from Croatia.

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  21. I love this concept, how deliciously healthy!

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  22. Your a bad bad foodie friend, now I will have to make these :( Carrot cake is my fav and these are gorgeous!

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  23. Oh man, you should never have posted this recipe... must make!

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  24. These look so good! How did you store these? In the refrigerator or like any other cookie? Thanks for sharing the recipe!

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  25. Anonymous: Since the filling has cream cheese, I stored them in the refrigerator. They were a hit.

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