Carrot Cake (cookie) Comeback

Since my first post I took a bit of a hiatus, with school and dance starting back up this fall I needed to reorganize my life and try out a few new recipes. Needless to say a few were flops, but one was a complete winner in my book. So without further adieu, this my friends is for you. 

Ingredients needed :


preheat your oven to 375.

Measure out 2.5 ounces of raisins


Put a stick of butter in a large mixing bowl.


Measure out 1/3 cup and 2 tablespoons worth of granulated sugar


Add the sugar to the butter.


Measure out 1/3 cup and 2 tablespoons worth of brown sugar.


Add the brown sugars to the butter and sugar.


Add one egg to the bowl.


Add done teaspoon of vanilla extract to the bowl.


now it's time to mix the fat and sugars!


You can stop mixing once the fat and sugars look light and fluffy, like this.


now it's time to prep the dry ingredients

Measure 1 and 1/8 cup of flour.


Add 1 teaspoon of cinnimon to the flour.
 

Then 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda


And last but not least of the dry ingredients 1/2 a teaspoon of salt!


Go ahead and mix your dry ingredients with a fork.

Now the fun part!!

Grate three nice sized carrots. (To save those fingers and a little bit of sanity. It's OK to leave an inch of carrot ungrated to hold on to)


Add those carrots and raisins to your fats.



and for a little pizazz, you can toss 3 oz or pecans into the mix as well. (you can usually find 3 oz bags of pre-chopped in your grocers baking isle)


And mix!


Add your dry ingredients to the bowl.


And mix again, it should look like this.


Go ahead and spoon some batter on to baking sheets lined with parchment paper. (I used tablespoons and had some toddler assistance) 


let  them cook for 13-17 minutes. (I baked mine for 16 and they turned out fantastic!)

let them sit 2 minutes on the pan after baking then transfer to a wire rack to cool.


Now if you want to get really fancy with these super tasty treats you can sandwich them using a dollop of frosting (cream cheese frosting is delicious here, but i used regular buttercream and was happy with the turn out).