Carrot Breakfast Cookies
Recipe by Ivy Manning | Photo by Erin Kunkel
Who has time for breakfast? Spend just a few minutes making these cookies on Sunday, and you’ll have healthy breakfasts ready to grab and go, all week long. Inspired by carrot cake, these cookies are packed with oats, nuts, and seeds, to keep you satisfied until lunch.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup (5 oz/155 g) whole-wheat flour
1 cup (3 oz/90 g) rolled oats
6 tablespoons (1½ oz/45 g) hemp seeds
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup (5 oz/155 g) shredded carrots
½ cup (5 oz/155 g) tahini
1/3 cup (4 oz/125 g) maple syrup
¼ cup (2 fl oz/60 ml) unsweetened applesauce
1½ teaspoons finely grated orange zest
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg
1¼ cups (5 oz/155 g) chopped walnuts
1/3 cup (2 oz/60 g) seedless raisins
INSTRUCTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper and mist with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, oats, hemp seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the carrots, tahini, maple syrup, applesauce, orange zest, vanilla, and egg until well blended. Add the carrot mixture to the flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon a few times to moisten. Add the walnuts and raisins and stir to combine.
Use a ½ cup measure to scoop out the dough, placing mounds on the prepared baking sheets, spacing them a few inches apart. With moistened fingers or the back of the measuring cup, pat the dough down to make 4-inch (10-cm) cookies. Bake, rotating the pans once, until the cookies are golden brown on the bottoms, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack.
Store the cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Makes 8 cookies; 8 servings
Nutrition Facts (per serving)
Calories 411
Protein 12 g
Total fat 25 g
Saturated fat 3 g
Carbs 41 g
Fiber 7 g
Total sugar 15
Sodium 294 mg
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Great recipe!
What would you recommend to make these gluten free
I would try coconut flour or chick pea flour
Is this nutritional info correct? Per cookie? Over 400 calories, 25g fat, over 40 carbs? Per cookie?
That is over 54% fat. Not sure how that is considered healthy.
The post says per serving, though it is not clear how many cookies constitute a serving. I wouldn’t worry about calories and carbs, I would be concerned with levels of sugar and sodium.
The post says per serving, though it did not specify what constitutes a serving. I would say that the tahini and the hemp seeds and the walnuts will add fat. There seems to be a significant amount of sugar and sodium as well.
I was wondering the same thing – seems a bit much…
I was thinking that this cookie seems like one to pass with that amount of calories.
My thoughts as well, sounds like it might be for all 8! If it’s right you’re better eating a whole pack of normal full fat cookies! lol
That’s what stuck out for me as well!
It says, “Use a ½ cup measure to scoop out the dough”, which, if one makes cookies, we end up using a melon ball type scooper. So these are much larger than your usual cookie. Besides, with nuts, seeds, wheat’s, etc., all those are higher calories and greater good fats. Things you should eat at the beginning of your day to jump start it. IMO, I’m not a nutritionist just a work out enthusiast and nutritional seeker.
If it is supposed to replace a breakfast, then 400 calories seems perfectly reasonable. 🙂
Hi. My thoughts also. Definitely will NOT be making these cookies if the cals and fat sre correct for one cookie
I guess it’s because these are gigantic cookies… 1/2 cup of dough per cookie, yikes… I think I’ll make them 1/2 size max
Any suggestions on what to use to replace the oats?
Wow, 400 calories.
I thought the same thing about the calorie count. Went on her website and couldn’t find the recipe there.
Could you substitute flaxseed? But honestly I don’t like hearing any nuts or seeds for fear of free radicals created.
Fitbit should make all the nutrition information from fitstar recipes available in fitbits food database!
Yes, my exact question. I would not make these nor eat them knowing that they where 400 calories.
Is this an error
The recipe looks yummy! Unfortunately I will not make it. I am allergic to three of the ingredients. I have to avoid eggs,wheat and hemp seeds among other foods.
I’d love to hear how I could still make this adapted to my eating needs. This is all very new to me, so I have a lot to learn.
I don’t cook anything w 17 ingredients. Let’s be real here.
At 11 weight watcher points, there is no way I would ever makes these cookies. This recipe is for people who want to gain weight. This is not for me!
8 cookies, 8 servings…..these are really high in calorie, fat, carbs and sugar!