Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Sugar Cookies (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

These Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Sugar Cookies are fun, delicious, and full of veggies! These carrot-shaped cut-out carrot cookies are vegan and allergy-free, made with a carrot cake dough and decorated with dairy-free & naturally colored white chocolate. They're a perfectly cute & kid-friendly treat for any Easter or Spring celebration!

O my gosh, guys! These cookies! They're not only carrot-shaped, but made with a literal carrot cake cookie base, and perfectly decorated with allergy-free white chocolate happiness! Could you ever ask for anything better in an Easter/Spring themed cookie? I don't think so! Gluten-free holiday-themed cookies seem to be trending over here. Not only are they cute and fun, but they're easy to make, delicious to eat, and no one passes up an allergy-free cookie!

Ingredients for the carrot cake cookie dough

These carrot cake cookies aren't the typical oat-based breakfast cookies you're used to seeing on the internet. No, no. These are cut-out carrot sugar cookies instead, with a real carrot cake dough! Here's what you need:

• Gluten-Free Baking Flour
• Sorghum Flour
• Granulated Sweetener
• Baking Powder
• Cinnamon
• Ginger
• Nutmeg
• Vanilla Extract
• Vegan/Soy-Free Butter
• Carrot Puree

Yes, these gluten-free cookies are FILLED with real vegetables! The secret baking ingredient I always use and yields the best, moist, stable, vegan, egg-free, dairy-free gluten-free baked goods. Baby food jars of pure veggie or fruit puree work as a fantastic egg-replacement that works as a binder and keeps your baked goodies moist (and healthy!)

How to make the decorated carrot cake sugar cookies

Time to mark the calendar with a weekend baking extravaganza with the family! Baking and decorating sugar cookies is always more fun with friends, right?

This is the exact cookie cutter set I bought (it's only $3 at Walmart), but you can get it on Amazon too. Using this carrot-shaped cookie cutter yielded 14 ⅛th inch sugar cookies. If you use a different shaped or sized cookie cutter, the number of cookies you get out of the dough with vary (obviously).

How to make the carrot sugar cookie base:

1. Mix together all your cookie dough ingredients, using your hands to work in the cold vegan butter and adding the carrot puree last. You'll need 4 tablespoons (measure this as tablespoons, not ¼ of a cup) of the carrot puree, but you may need a teaspoon or so more. I ended up using 4 tablespoons plus 1 extra teaspoon.
2. CHILL the dough for at least 30 minutes to an hour before rolling the dough out to a ⅛-inch thickness. Pro Tip: Sprinkle extra flour on the dough to make things easier to roll and cut.
3. Cut out as many carrot cookies as you can with the dough (re-rolling as needed). I made 14 cut-out cookies.
4. Evenly space the cookies out on a baking sheet and bake them for 13-15 minutes in a preheated 350°F oven. Remove and let them cool completely on a wire rack before decorating.

How to decorate the carrot cake cookies:

1. Melt the allergy-free white chocolate in a wide bowl in the microwave, using 20-second increments, stirring between, until melted so it doesn’t burn. Use about ⅓ of the white chocolate for the green carrot top portion and the rest for the orange carrot base. You can divide it up before or after you melt the chocolate.
2. Mix red and yellow natural food dye together in the larger portion of melted white chocolate until you get the desired orange shade you want. Do the same, but use green coloring to get the green shade you want in the smaller portion of white chocolate.
3. Using a spoon, gently spread on a thin layer of orange chocolate to the body of the cookie and do the same for the green tops.
4. Before the green chocolate tops dry, sprinkle on some green sanding sugar (if desired).

Healthy carrot cookie tips, swaps, and storage

• You can use ALL gluten-free baking flour if you don’t have delicious sorghum flour on hand (I like to mix flours for a better tasting gluten-free cookie!)
• I always use Beech-Nut Sweet Carrot baby food jars. They're only carrot and water. If you opt for something else or making your own by blending boiled carrots, you'll have to determine if you need more or less puree in the dough as the water content will vary.
• If you're not vegan or don't have certain allergies, you can use colored candy melts instead of dying white chocolate (however, the "fresh" white chocolate tastes amazing!)
• Storage: These vegan carrot cake cookies can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container 1 week (they'll be fine past that, but will start to get stale). You can also freeze the decorated cookies, wrapped in plastic wrap in a container or freezer bag for 6 months. It's better to freeze the undecorated cookies though if you plan on doing this. To thaw, just remove and let them come to room temperature.

Do they actually taste like carrots?

Yes! But not straight up raw carrots, they taste like carrot CAKE. They're sweet sugar cookies with the iconic carrot cake spices: ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The white chocolate "icing" acts as the classic cream cheese frosting. Each bite tastes like the Spring season's delicious arrival! Plus, getting a dose of veggies in a delicious gluten-free cookie sounds like a good idea, don't you think? They're Easter bunny approved, btw.

Plus, these cookies are 100%...

• Gluten-Free
• Vegan
• Allergy-free (Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free, Peanut-Free, Wheat-Free, Sesame-Free, Corn-Free, Coconut-Free)
• Oil-Free
• Low in Sugar (minus the white chocolate)
• Super Kid-Friendly
• Secretly (or not so secretly) Packed with Veggies!

Carrot cake is my favorite thing (okay, besides Funfetti), but it is THE best flavor of the season so you may just want to check out these other carrot cake goodies!

Other Carrot Cake Recipes To Try:

• Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting
• Mini Carrot Cake Bundts
• Carrot Cake Doughnuts
• Carrot Cake Pancakes with Carrot Cream Frosting
• Carrot Cake Waffles
• Carrot Cake Quinoa Flakes
• Carrot Cake Granola

Gluten-Free Carrot Cake Sugar Cookies

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Clearly, since these gluten-free cookies are made with real carrot, that means you can have more than just one...right?

So tell me:

+ What's your favorite carrot cake flavored dessert?

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