Spiced Carrot Cookie

Ingredients:

• 1 egg, or egg replacement
• 1/2 cup of butter or margarine 
• 1/2 cup of white sugar
• 1/4 cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 cup soy milk
• 2 tbsp mollases
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 tsp baking power
• 4 tsp ground ginger
• 1 tsp ground clove
• pinch of nutmeg
• pinch of allspice
• 1 large carrot, peeled and grated
• 1/4 cup sweetened coconut
• 1/2 cup of rolled oats
• 2 cups of whole wheat flour
• 1/2 cup raisins, dried fruit of your choice

Add egg(or egg replacement), white and brown sugar, butter, soy milk and vanilla in a bowl.Blend on low until it is creamy. Add your spices and molasses, blend together until smooth. Add grated carrot, coconut and oats. Blend until the carrot is mixed into the batter.

In a separate bowl, mix flour and baking powder together. Add in 1/2 cup increments the batter, mixing on medium speed. You may need to add more or less flour. An easy way to judge is that this batter should be the consistency of play dough, slightly wet but easy to mold and should not crumble. You should be able to roll some dough into a ball and it should hold.

Stir in your raisins, cranberries, dry fruit(what ever combination you choose!). Use a table spoon to scoop 6 equal sections onto your cookie sheet. Roll each scoop into a ball and flatten the top slightly with a fork.

Bake at 350F for about 15 minutes. Cookies are done when they are slightly browned! Makes about 12 cookies.

Tips:

The measurements might be slightly off. I don't use measuring cups often when I am baking or cooking, and I forgot to measure for this recipe. I do a lot of guesstimating when baking, so all of these measurements are approximates!

If you want a stronger carrot taste, add more carrot and reduce the ginger.

You can add a variety of fruit to this recipe, some examples are raisins, dates, figs, dried apricot, or you could add walnuts, almonds, ect.


As always, if you have any comments or feedback on the recipes, I would love to hear it!