Oat Carrot Cookies

Eat your veg in a cookie

Merry Christmas!!! Wishing you a lovely time celebrating …and eating!

Christmas would not be complete without the scent of cookies baking. Last year we made Zimtsterne, but this year I thought we would combine the old tradition of baking Christmas cookies with the new one of having a ‘Vegetable of the Week’. As this week’s veg is carrot, we present: Carrot Oat Cookies.

I cannot really say that I made these cookies, as about ten hands – large and small – contributed to creating mixing and rolling these. But the verdict is unanimous: we will not be waiting for Christmas to make these again.

The only change will be making is using less sugar (the original recipe asks for 6 tbs of each of the sugars, 4 should be enough). Also this time round we only had all-purpose flour. Although the cookies tasted fabulous we will use whole-wheat flour next time.

Ingredients
(altered only slightly from the blog ‘Marcus Samuelsson’)

Makes about 20 cookies

90g (3/4 cup) whole-wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder (or ½ tsp of baking soda)
3/4 tsp coarse salt
113g (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
4 (to 6) tbsp superfine sugar
4 (to 6) tbsp light brown sugar
1 large egg
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
90g (1 cup) rolled oats (NL: havermout)*
130g (1 cup) grated carrot, from about 1 large to 4 small carrots

Recipe

1. In a small bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. In a separate bowl mix together the butter and sugar using a mixed. Beat on medium-high for a few minutes until the mixture is fluffy.
3. Add egg and vanilla. Mix together on a low speed until all is well combined.
4. Clean and grate the carrot.
5. Add the flour mixture to the butter.
6. Add carrot and oats. Mix on a low speed to combine.
7. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for 15-60 min.
8. Preheat the oven to 180C (375F).
9. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. (Yes, you do need two sheets as the dough spreads during baking.)
10. With cold, wet hands roll balls out of a tablespoon of the mixture at a time. Press lightly between your palms to create small disks.
11. Bake for 10-12 min until golden.
12. Allow to cool on a rack.

Tip & Variations

• If you only have regular oats very briefly whizz them in a food processor or coffee grinder.
• The original recipe adds chocolate chips

For the health benefits of carrots look here.

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