Ingredients

  • The Cookies
  • 1/2 pound unsalted butter
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 cup rolled oats
  • 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
  • 1 1/2 cups freshly grated carrots (3 or 4 medium)
  • 1 cup raisins
  • 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped
  • Ginger Cream Cheese Frosting, recipe below
  • Ginger Cream Cheese Icing
  • 8 ounces Cream Cheese, room temperature
  • 8 tablespoons Unsalted Butter, room temperature
  • 3/4 cup Confectioner's Sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Freshly Grated Ginger (or fresh ground ginger in a jar. It can be found by the minced garlic at the grocery store.)
  • 1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt

Method

  • Using a stand mixer with your paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl.
  • Sift or mix the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and ground ginger until well combined. Add the spiced flour to the sugar/butter mixture and mix until combined.
  • Add the oats, raisins, coconut and carrots. Stir until combined.
  • Chill dough for a minimum of thirty minutes or overnight.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • Using a teaspoon, scoop dough out into little balls and flatten itno disks on the cookie sheets lined with parchment paper.
  • Bake 10 minutes or until the bottoms begin to brown lightly. Let cookies cool on wire racks.
  • Using the ginger cream cheese frosting, spread about a teaspoonful on the bottom of a cookie. Sandwich another cookie over the frosting. Store in the refrigerator.
  • With your stand mixer, whip the butter and cream cheese together until light and fluffy.
  • Add the vanilla, grated ginger and salt.
  • Add the confectioners sugar, slowly at first until combined and then on high speed, whipping until light and fluffy.
  • Store in the refrigerator.