Cakes & Baking
Carrot cake cookies with orange-cream cheese icing
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Makes
2 dozen cookies
Creator Notes
In the previous month or so, I’ve gotten into making an strive to attain cookies out of diversified basic baking recipes. Most modern creations have incorporated a caramel apple spice cookie, blueberry muffin cookie, and this one: carrot cake cookies with orange-cream cheese icing.
Boiled and mashed carrots meet the makings of a cookie, and join nuts, chocolate chips and raisins for a textured dessert that affords away at the first bite. —charitydinner
Ingredients
- Carrot cake cookies
1 cup
shortening
1/2 cup
white sugar
1/4 cup
gentle brown sugar
1
egg
1 cup
boiled and mashed carrots (about 6 or 7 medium-sized carrots)
1/2 teaspoon
vanilla extract
1 tablespoon
orange zest
2 cups
all-reason flour
2 teaspoons
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon
ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon
ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon
ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon
salt
1/2 cup
chopped pecans
1/2 cup
raisins
3/4 cup
semisweet chocolate chips
- Orange cream cheese icing
6 ounces
cream cheese, softened
4 tablespoons
butter, softened
1/2 teaspoon
orange extract
1/2 teaspoon
vanilla extract
2 cups
powdered sugar
2 tablespoons
heavy cream (more or much less as fundamental)
1/2 teaspoon
ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Slit carrots and reputation in boiling water. Let the carrots prepare dinner until they’re mushy, then blend in a food processor.
- In a tall mixing bowl, cream shortening with the sugars until fully aloof and a little fluffy. Add the egg, vanilla extract and orange zest and blend totally. Add the mashed and processed carrots, blend until utterly incorporated.
- In a diversified bowl, sift collectively flour, baking powder, salt and spices. Add the dry substances to the shortening-carrot combination, lunge to combine.
- Fold within the pecans, raisins and chocolate chips. The utilize of an ice cream scoop, flip mounds of cookie dough out onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet.
- Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for 7 minutes, flip the pan, and bake for 7 more minutes. When the cookies come out of the oven, press on them flippantly with the stop of a spatula. Allow the cookies to frigid on the pan for roughly 10 minutes sooner than transferring them to a cooling rack.
- In a tall mixing bowl, utilize a streak attachment on a mixer or immersion blender to combine the cream cheese, butter and extracts until aloof. Add the powdered sugar, and as fundamental, the heavy cream. The icing needs to be smoother and a little thinner than a broken-down cream cheese frosting.
- The utilize of a pastry accumulate or a handily re-purposed sandwich accumulate, pipe the icing as desired on the cooled cookies.