Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting
This post is sponsored by Philadelphia® Cream Cheese. I’m pleased to partner with them to bring you this delicious dessert recipe featuring their products. All opinions are mine alone.
Easter is right around the corner and I have just the dessert for you to make for your friends and family!
This recipe combines the flavors of a Springtime classic and cookie favorite – Carrot Cake & Oatmeal Cream Pie. Let’s break it down!
The Carrot Cake Cookies are packed full of flavor from a variety of spices, including: cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. The oats and raisins are two feature ingredients borrowed from a classic cookie recipe, Oatmeal Raisin. They pair beautifully with the sweet, yet bitter taste of the carrots.
In this recipe, I use shredded carrots in which I further chopped into smaller bits. However, I kept them at a size where the carrots are visible in the baked cookies because it adds a fun color for presentation. And after all.. this is a CARROT Cake Cookie Recipe! Additionally, this dough is very moist which leads to the cookies staying soft and chewy when baked and assembled.
For added texture, I incorporated chopped pecans around the rim. The pecans can be easily traded for walnuts, but you can always leave them out if nuts aren’t your thing.
Last but not least, my favorite part of this Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookie.. THE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING! You can’t have a solid sandwich cookie without a thick, creamy and flavorful frosting. Once you try this Cream Cheese Frosting recipe, it will become your new go-to frosting. Not only is it next level in taste and texture, but it is very fast and easy to make, with minimal ingredients.
The hero ingredient in this Cream Cheese Frosting is the Philadelphia Cream Cheese. The rich and creamy texture shines through in every bite + the vanilla cream cheese flavor compliments the spices in the carrot cake cookies. Philadelphia Cream Cheese is a baking essential in my kitchen. Bricks are always stocked in the refrigerator. It is the all-embracing ingredient that I base recipes around because there are so many things (both sweet and savory) you can do with it. I used a piping bag to pipe on the Cream Cheese Frosting, but you can easily spread on the frosting with a knife, spatula or other spreading utensil.
Philadelphia Cream Cheese packs the perfect taste and texture for your Easter recipe needs! This Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookie with Cream Cheese Frosting is sweet, rich, creamy, delicious and is sure to make your taste buds dance!
As we head into Springtime and you begin to plan your upcoming Easter menu, be sure to add this recipe to your list. Don’t forget to pick up a brick or two of Philadelphia Cream Cheese to make the season a bit tastier!
Pro tip: These will be the first thing to go at your Easter celebration, so you might want to double the recipe (wink, wink!)
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