Carrot Cookies with Orange Icing
Carrot cookies with orange icing, spiced with cinnamon and allspice, and topped with tangy-sweet icing and walnuts.
Servings: 30 -35
Calories: 113kcal
Ingredients
- 200 g carrots weighed after peeling, 7 oz (Note)
- 140 g unsalted butter 5 oz/ ½ cup + 1 ½ tablespoons, at room temperature
- 140 g light brown sugar 5 oz/ scant ¾ cup
- 350 g all-purpose flour 12 oz/ 3 cups
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice
- 1 egg
- 1 organic orange
- 140 g icing sugar 5 oz/ 1 ⅓ cups
- handful chopped walnuts
Instructions
Carrot cookies:
- Preheat the convection/fan oven to 360 degrees Fahrenheit/ 180 degrees Celsius. Line two baking trays with baking paper. If using a regular oven, preheat to 400 degrees Fahrenheit/ 200 degrees Celsius.
- Peel and finely grate the carrots. Set aside.
- Batter: Beat the soft butter and the sugar together until creamy. Beat in the egg and then add the grated carrots. In another bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and allspice. Add them to the butter mixture and mix with a spatula or spoon to form the dough.
- Form cookies: With floured hands, take small amounts of the dough, form balls about the size of a walnut, flatten them with your palms, and place them on the prepared baking trays.
- Bake: In a convection/fan oven, you will be able to bake both trays of cookies simultaneously. In a regular oven which only allows you to bake one tray of cookies at a time, place the remaining cookie dough in the fridge while the first batch of cookies is in the oven.
- Baking time: Bake the cookies for about 12-15 minutes or until slightly crisp and golden. Leave to cool on the baking trays for about 10 minutes, then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Orange icing:
- Make orange icing: Zest and juice the orange. Mix the orange juice with the icing sugar to obtain an icing that can be drizzled. Depending on how much juice your orange has released you might need to add a little more icing sugar or a little water to the mixture to give it the right consistency.
- Drizzle the icing all over the cookies and sprinkle them with orange zest and chopped walnuts. Allow setting before serving.
Notes
Use a digital kitchen scale to measure the ingredients when baking; it guarantees for best results.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 113kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 14mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 8g