Healthy Carrot Cookies

Hello food friends! I am so excited to share this new recipe with all of you! I’m constantly asked for more healthy snack ideas. One of my most popular recipes is my healthy banana oat cookies. Now I have a new snack recipe for you: low FODMAP Healthy Carrot Cookies! These cookies have the flavour of carrot cake but are packed with a lot more nutrients. They are high in fibre, which can help us feel satiated until our next meal, and are still super tasty. Whether you have food intolerances or not, these are a great snack!

A bunch of ingredients add fibre to this recipe, including the carrots, flax, coconut, almond flour, oat flour, walnuts and cranberries. Most cookies are made primarily with highly processed flours. Two thirds of the flour in this recipe are minimally processed and very nutritious (almond and oat flour) and the other third is a processed flour blend which is important for improving the texture. Almond flour is low FODMAP at 1/4 cup per serving. Oat flour is also low at 1/4 cup per serving and is very easy to make at home if you have a blender or food processor. Just simply blend rolled oats until no large pieces remain. Note: If you have celiac disease make sure to use gluten-free oats. If you are not celiac, you can use regular oats/oat flour.

Use a tablespoon to measure out the cookie dough.

It is important to use a one-to-one flour blend in this recipe. A one-to-one low FODMAP flour blend is a flour that the label says can be substituted equally for wheat flour in baking. Bob’s Red Mill is one brand I like (their 1-to-1 flour is low FODMAP but not their gluten-free all-purpose flour). You can also make your own flour blend with 1/4 cup brown (or white) rice flour, 2 tbsp tapioca starch, and 2 tbsp sweet/glutinous rice flour. In Ontario, Canada, where I live, I can find all of these flours at Bulk Barn.

Small amounts of wheat are allowed on the low FODMAP diet. You can use all purpose white flour in this recipe instead of the one-to-one flour as long as you have not been diagnosed with celiac disease or gluten intolerance. If you use regular flour the FODMAP serving size per meal/snack is lowered to 2 cookies at a time.

Remove from oven once the cookies are lightly browned on top.

I’ve tried two oils in this recipe, extra virgin olive oil and canola oil. They both turned out great and I couldn’t taste the olive oil at all. I recommend if possible to use the extra virgin olive oil as it’s the most nutritious oil out there, but this recipe would likely work just fine with another oil or melted butter subbed in.

I really love these cookies with the added coconut, cranberries and walnuts. They are optional add-ins but I highly recommend using them. You could also use regular raisins instead of the dried cranberries. Most dried fruits are high FODMAP, but dried cranberries and regular raisins (not sultanas) are low FODMAP at 1 tablespoon per serving. Anyone else love morning glory muffins? The taste of these cookies reminds me a lot of morning glory muffins, yum!

If you are on the low FODMAP diet, the maximum serving size for these cookies is four per snack/meal. These cookies last in the fridge for up to a week, or in the freezer for a couple months. If you plan on freezing some cookies, place them in a freezer safe container as soon as you can after they have cooled off. This way they will taste fresh when defrosted! I love enjoying these cookies with a glass of lactose-free milk or a low FODMAP tea.

Note: click here to see my FODMAP food chart that summarizes the FODMAP content of foods.

This recipe is adapted from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Healthy Carrot Cookies

These healthy cookies have the flavour of carrot cake but are packed with a lot more nutrition!

5 from 1 vote

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Course Breakfast, Snack, Treat

Servings 24 cookies

Ingredients

  

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• 1 1/2 cups shredded carrots packed (approx. 2 medium carrots)
• 1/2 cup Lactose-free plain yogurt or coconut yogurt
• 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup water
• 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil or other oil
• 2 tbsp ground flax
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 cup shredded unsweetened coconut optional
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/2 cup almond flour
• 1/2 cup oat flour
• 1/2 cup one-to-one low FODMAP flour blend see notes
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts optional
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries optional

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 400 F. Line baking pan with parchment paper.
• Grate your carrots; measure by lightly packing into measuring cups. Mix carrots, yogurt, sugar, water, oil, flax and vanilla in a large mixing bowl. In a second bowl, mix together coconut, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, flours and baking powder.
• Stir the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined. Gently stir in dried cranberries and walnuts.
• Scoop heaping tablespoons of dough onto the lined baking pan. Bake for 14 minutes until tops are lightly browned. Remove from oven and let cool.
• Will keep fresh in the fridge up to 1 week, or in the freezer up to 2 months.

Notes

• FODMAP serving size is up to 4 cookies per serving.
• Oat flour can be easily made using a blender. Simply blend rolled oats until no large pieces remain. If you have celiac disease make sure to use gluten-free oats. If you are not celiac, you can use regular oats/oat flour.
• A one-to-one low FODMAP flour blend is a flour that the label says can be substituted equally for wheat flour in baking. Bob’s Red Mill 1-to-1 is one brand I like (note: their all-purpose gluten-free flour is high FODMAP due to the bean flour). You can also make your own flour blend with 1/4 cup brown (or white) rice flour, 2 tbsp tapioca starch, and 2 tbsp sweet/glutinous rice flour. If you are fine with wheat you can use regular white or whole wheat flour.
• Freeze extras right away and they will taste fresh when defrosted.
• The dried coconut, cranberries and walnuts are optional (and tasty) add-ins. You could swap in regular raisins (not sultanas) for the cranberries.

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