Please understand that I know these breakfast cookies may look a little ugly. I get it. But they taste awesome. Just a fact.
I miss Jackson SO much. I’m just leaving Austin this morning to head back home and kiss his face over and over until bites me with his little gremlin teeth. He loves to do that. And by the way, Jackson is my dog if you didn’t know who that man name was. He’s still a puppy, not yet a man. That could be a song.
So Austin was amazing. I’m going to do a summary post tomorrow about all of it, don’t you worry, but I can at least do some summarizing. I ate a lot. I hung out with awesome paleo people. Some people were annoying. I mean, it’s the paleo community. It’s full of intense hippies. You’re probably an intense hippy, aren’t you? Judging. Jk jk. I like the smell of lavender sometimes, too. Back to my point. I shopped a lot. I talked to a lot of people. I did a cooking demo. I drank barely any water. I spoke on a panel that I so did not want to speak on. I had more dairy then I’ve had in the entire year. I laughed so hard I cried. Twice. I packed my bag home with 4 chocolate bars. I went to an awesome CrossFit gym and did a super painful workout. I sweated into my eyes while working out. And I stayed in a super fun condo with 7 other people. The coffee table was a giant drum. No lie.
I’m so ready to be home. I made the bf send me multiple pictures every day of the puppy. He’s growing up so fast and I’m missing it all! I was hoping that by the time I got home, he would be perfectly potty trained. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to turn out like that. I think we will still have to work at it. Poor kid. He just likes to be independent and prove that independence through urinating where he pleases. That just ain’t gon’ work.
Speaking of ain’t gon’ work, I’m a bit annoyed with United Airlines right now. I usually stick with them because they tend to almost always have wi-fi, their flights have always been on time with me, and they have seemed to always have a decent amount of space in their planes. I was wrong. This time around, I was forced on one of their United Express planes that looks like it should be taking me from Denver to Colorado Springs, instead of all the way to Austin. They are so small that only a purse fits in the bin overhead and you can literally smell the breath of the person sitting next to you. And based on my experience on this trip, these little dinky planes do not tend to be on time. I’ve never really had a flight be late with United and then once I was lucky enough to ride on the United Express, all my flights were late. I feel like this happens because they are the little, nerdy planes so they get pushed around by the bigger ones and can only come out to play when all the bigs ones are gone. Well you know what United Express? You need to pull up your big boy pants and get your sh*t together. Meaning get rid of those planes so I can make it on time to my destination. Maybe it’s just time to pick a new airline. What do you think? What’s your favorite airline to fly?
Carrot Cake Chocolate Chunk Breakfast Cookies
- Yield: 12 1x
Ingredients
- 2 large carrots, shredded
- 1 cup coconut sugar
- 1 cup melted coconut oil
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup coconut flour
- 1/2 cuptapioca flour
- 1/2 teaspoon Primal Palate pumpkin pie spice
- pinch of salt
- 1/2–1 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl, add carrots, coconut sugar, coconut oil, eggs and vanilla extract to a bowl and whisk.
- Then add coconut flour, tapioca flour, pumpkin pie spice and salt and mix until combine. Then fold in chocolate chunks.The dough will seem a bit dry and thick, don’t worry.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop a rounded scoop onto a parchment paper lined baking sheet, then press the cookie down with your fingers.
- Repeat. This should make 12-13 cookies.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until cookies are cooked through in the middle.
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As I commented in today’s post, I made these delicious bastards last night for my bday and HOLY GOD THEY WERE DELICIOUS!!! As mentioned in my other comment, I used Hershey’s cinnamon chips… it went well due to the pumpkin spice flavor, but I think I will use chocolate next time 😉 Chocolate and I love each other, dunno why I cheated on her like that.
THANK YOU FOR THIS RECIPE. And all the other ones, I’m not gonna lie and say I haven’t made a bunch 😉
Hey Juli,
These look AAAWWWESOME and I can’t wait to try them. I am super busy though so I am always looking for shortcuts. Most likely, I would buy them pre-shredded. About how much shredded carrot should I measure out?
Southwest out of Denver. Every time. Usually my hubby and I end up with free drinks. (Keep an eye out when the attendants come around. No hand-held-computer-swipey-thing in hand = they’re not charging anyone!) We also have a SW credit card, and we rack up some mad points buying paleo ingredients at the grocery store.
Psyched that you posted these cookies. Hubby’s birthday is this weekend and he LOVES carrot cake, so I’m pulling a paleo bait and switch. These will be gone before you can say Happy Beasterassover (birthday + Easter + Passover)!
So I followed this recipe to a T (or at least I think I did?!) and mine came out pretty dry and not that sweet?! I must have done something wrong, because this has never once happened to me with any of your recipes!!
The only thing I can think of is maybe I didn’t use enough carrots. But i don’t see how that would have made them more moist or sweeter. Maybe more pumpkin pie spice next time.
*stumped*
These look delicious! I wake up at 5 am and go to crossfit 5 days a week. I don’t have a lot of time to prepare breakfast during the week so I love the grab and go alternatives. Do you recommend this as a daily preworkout breakfast option?
Thanks!
i think this recipe would be pretty good for on the go and pre workout, but that’s just my opinion! I’m no dietician
Awesome, thank you!
I love Southwest! The seating is a little difficult if you are flying with someone, but it never matters to me when I fly alone. They make up for our with price and customer service, including on-time fights and an EXCELLENT safety record.
I also love that your birthday is a week before my husband’s. I can always count on a new treat recipe to try. All I have to say is “it’s from PaleOMG”, and he agrees to try it!
I literally just did a google search for “carrot cookies” and these were the first hit. I had all of the ingredients on hand, so I threw a batch together quickly and am currently enjoying one!!! So good!!!
I’ve never been successful with tapioca flour, but it’s used perfectly here. I was so happy there were no but flours involved, as I live in a but free house. These are a great treat anyone in my home can enjoy. Thank you!!
Can I do this with honey?
haven’t tried. it may change the texture and how it comes out
I made a half-batch of these in a muffin tin with silicon cups, substituting honey for coconut sugar. Turned out quite good, though a bit too sweet. For the full recipe, I’d guess that about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of honey would work well.
I recently began following you (thanks by the way) and noticed you don’t use amaranth flour much. Is there a reason? I haven’t used it yet myself but have seen it in other paleo recipes. Just curious.
i know nothing about amaranth flour, that’s why!
These are awesome! Thank you.