 ‘Tis the season where it’s completely acceptable to sneak carrots in your families desserts, right? We all need some bunny food as we prepare for visits from the Easter bunny. This treat is a refreshing dessert to eat in between stealing Easter candy from your children’s Easter basket stash. (I might be crossing my fingers that Aliceana gets a few chocolate bunnies to share with me this Easter.) I made carrot cake sandwich cookies with cream cheese frosting. They actually ended up tasting exactly like Trader Joe’s Inside-Out Carrot Cake Cookies. We have included an affiliate link to our favorite baking sheets for your shopping convenience!
I can’t believe Easter is here already, I think it feels like Christmas was just yesterday. Maybe it would feel a little more like Easter is right around the corner if the weather would cooperate for more than a day. This has to be the longest Winter ever. I can’t wait for the warm weather, Aliceana begs to go outside everyday, so I’m pretty sure that we’re going to be spending so much time playing with the dogs in the backyard once we have warmer weather. Alright, alright, back to these amazing carrot cake sandwich cookies with cream cheese frosting!
I love the texture of the carrots and raisins in these cookies. I’m normally not a huge fan of sandwich cookies, because they’re mostly way too sweet, but with these cookies the homemade cream cheese adds the perfect amount of sweetness, without being too sweet.
I feel like these carrot cake sandwich cookies with cream cheese frosting are the perfect Spring cookie. They didn’t last very long in our house. I’ll definitely have to make them again before Easter gets here.
I had to throw this last picture in there. That’s my HUGE recipe book filled with secret family recipes. We had it out because my husband was making my family recipe for chocolate beer cake.
Here’s the recipe, I hope you love it as much as we do and here is a link to some great airbake sheets that make perfect cookies!
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat oven to 350* line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Beat sugars and butter until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and continue beating.
- In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Add dry mixture to wet mixture and combine until blended.
- Stir in rolled oats, raisins, and carrots.
- Chill dough covered in a refrigerator for an hour.
- Scoop out tablespoon sized balls of dough onto prepared cookie sheets (leave a 2 inch gap between cookies.)
- Bake for 12-15 minutes, until cookies have browned.
- Whip 8 ounces of softened cream cheese until fluffy in texture (I always do this with cream cheese, it makes it easier to work with!) Add butter and 2 teaspoons vanilla then cream the mixture together. Gradually add powdered sugar (about 4 cups) until frosting is desired sweetness and consistency.
- Pipe the middle of the cooled cookies with cream cheese frosting and form sandwiches.
- Store cookies in an air tight container in the refrigerator.
What kind of cookies do you make to celebrate Spring?
I saw these cookies on Marvelous Mondays — they look so delicious! I just love carrot cake, so I’m loving this cookie version. 🙂
Oh my goodness….these look divine!
Thank you!
I love carrot cake but never had it in a cookie before, these look super yummy! Thanks for linking up to Sweet and Savoury Sunday, stop by and link up again this weekend!
These look amazing! I can’t wait to try your recipe!
I was just thinking about carrot cake cookies with a cream cheese filling – these look awesome! Yum!
Thanks! I hope you try them, they’re so good!
These look so yummy! I have been looking for the perfect carrot cookie recipe. I will definitely have to give these a try!
Thanks! Let me know how you like them!
We actually have another carrot cookie recipe, but I’ve been vowed to never share it, it’s one of those sacred family recipes. I will say that it has homemade icing where you substitute orange juice for milk and add a little bit of orange zest, and that icing itself is to die for.
Oh, oatmeal with cream cheese frosting sounds awesome! Now I really want my grandma’s famous oatmeal cookies. I should pester her into making them. She’s always just eyeballs her recipe so no one actually knows her measurements and it drives me nuts! haha
I don’t think I’ve ever actually made a carrot cake! I really need to, I love carrot cake and your cake sounds awesome!
These look delicious! I bet they would be tasty with cream fillings, too.
Thanks for sharing at Inspire Me Mondays!
Oh my gosh these look amazing! Perfect for Easter slash spring get-togethers! Thanks for linking with Inspire Me Mondays! I’m featuring this in my favorites this week over on Diary of a Semi-Health Nut! 🙂
Yummo! Thank you for sharing on Show Me Saturday!
I’m not completely sure, I always plan desserts for when we have company so they don’t stick around long. I would try to make these only a couple days before since the cream cheese is more perishable than most desserts, otherwise you could use store-bought cream cheese frosting and make these ahead of time. Make sure to store them in an air-tight container either way!