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Ingredients
Carrot Cake Cookies with Walnuts
- Ingredients
- ¼ oz ginger (1 piece)
- 7 ozs carrots
- 7 ozs Apple
- 2 ½ ozs Walnut
- 1 ½ ozs Date (pitted)
- 3 Tbsps Coconut oil
- 3 ozs old fashioned Oats
- 6 ozs Whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- 4 Tbsps Maple syrup
Peel the ginger and grate finely. Peel carrots. Wash and seed the apple. Coarsely grate apple and carrots. Chop walnuts and dates. Put coconut oil in a pot and melt at low heat.
Mix oats, flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Add walnuts, dates, apple, carrots, ginger, coconut oil, and maple syrup and mix thoroughly until a dough is formed.
Form 12 round cookies of about the same size from the dough and bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 35-40 minutes on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Let them cool down before serving.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 168 cal. | (8 %) | ||
| Protein | 4 g | (4 %) | ||
| Fat | 7 g | (6 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 21 g | (14 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 3.4 g | (14 %) | ||
| Roughage | 3.1 g | (10 %) |
Healthy, because
These delicious cookies contain a lot of fiber for healthy digestion as well as beta-carotene, a type of antioxidant, from the carrots.
Even smarter
The fat from these walnuts helps the beta-carotene be absorbed by the body.