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Most of my recipes – especially baked and sweet treats are coming out of the effort to hide some extra nutritions in them for my picky eaters. And once you fell down to the “sneaky veg rabbit hole”, there is no way back. You’ll always try to think about how can you sneak some goodies in, whatever you cook or bake. These vegan, oaty carrot cake cookies are no different.
Perfectly spiced and packed with wholesome ingredients, they are a delightful treat for everyone, whether you’re vegan or not! These cookies combine the natural sweetness of carrots with the hearty goodness of oats, creating a chewy texture that melts in your mouth.
Why add oats to cookies?
By making these cookies with oats, it helps to add some extra goodness to them: oat is a great source of important vitamins, minerals, fibre and antioxidants. I’ve added some regular flour for the regular cookie texture – but you can make them entirely with oat flour. (Also, grinding the oats it makes the cookies looking less suspiciously healthy for them.)
We love carrot cake and these cookies really resemble the flavour of the carrot cake. Really lovely.
Tips when making vegan oaty carrot cake cookies:
- you can swap maple syrup for golden syrup but not sugar, because you need the syrup’s texture, alternatively honey can work too – but then they’re not vegan
- use any dairy on non dairy milk
- you can swap coconut oil for margarine or butter (melted)
- you can add raisins, chopped dates or chopped dry apricots too
- these cookies bake very quickly, make sure you check on them at around 8-10 minutes baking time
- tools you’ll need is just a food processor (optional) and/or a grater as well as cookie cooling rack
Enjoy them fresh out of the oven or store them in an airtight container for a healthy snack throughout the week. (Given that they won’t be gobbled up within a few hours!)
Vegan Oaty Carrot Cake Cookies
Equipment
- Food processor
Ingredients
- 150 g organic jumbo oats Scottish oat flakes or rolled oats also good
- 50 g all purpose flour
- 85 g grated carrots about 2 medium carrots
- 70 ml maple syrup
- 75 ml non dairy milk I used oat milk
- 2 tbsp coconut oil melted
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 50 g chocolate chips optional
Instructions
- In the food processor give the oat flakes a whizz or use oat flour.
- Preheat oven to 170 Celsius.Peel and grate carrots. Melt the coconut oil. Put everything into a mixing bowl.
- Combine ingredients.
- Line a baking sheet and spoon the cookie batter into little heaps, then press them sown with the back of a fork.
- Bake for 10 minutes only - they burn quickly! Enjoy.
Let me know what you think of these vegan oaty carrot cake cookies!
I have a few other cookie recipes you might like:
Vegan Sweet Potato – Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe