Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies

Love carrot cake, love these carrot cake sandwich cookies even more. The original recipe comes from Miss Martha and can be found here. However, this recipe I'm about to show you is my modified version. It's BETTER than Martha's. I'll even challenge hers to a throwdown.

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Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies

Makes about 40 sandwich cookies

We have to make both a cookie and a frosting. Let's begin with the cookie.

Preheat your oven to 350. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.

Prepare your carrots. You must shred about 1 1/2 cups worth. HOWEVER, if you'd like to take my easy-peasy lazy dazy way out, buy these preshredded kind,

and chop it into short pieces, like soCombine it with some oatmeal, I use the quick cooking kindMix and set aside.In your mixer combine your butter, white and brown sugars,Beat them till light and fluffy. Then add your eggs and vanillaBeat these till well combined.

Now sift your flour into another bowl

And then sift in your other ingredients.Stir to combine; add to your other mixture and stir in your oat/carrot mixture. And just look at that gorgeous cookie dough you've made.

Refrigerate your dough for a bit. (I've actually premade this and have refrigerated it for up to 3 days, aren't I the special one?)

Take your dough out, and using a scoop this size, yes, again, a Pampered Chef Item. I love Pampered Chef. Have you noticed I LOVE lots of things, food, cookbooks, Tyler, George, the hot guy from Grey's Anatomy, no not Patrick Dempsey, the other one, his best friend who cheated with Patrick Dempsey's TV wife at the time, romps in the hay, firefighter boots, running, .. God, I could go on and on, about what I love. I do hate things to you know. One of the things I hate the most is the cashier who sneezes , then hands you your change with the same hand she sneezed into. Oh, I could go on and on about what I hate too. But, I'll spare you for now.

OK, using your scoop, drop the dough onto parchment lined sheets, Try to get same size droppings.. haha.. so your sandwich cookies can be about the same size. Bake them for a bit, about 12-15 minutes. Take 'em out

and remove them to a wire rack to cool completely.

While you're cooling your cookies, make your sinfully delicious frosting! You will need

and some vanilla. Mix in your mixer till smooth, creamy, silky, and well blended.Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this picture?? Anyone? How in the freaking world, is this enough frosting to sandwich together 40 carrot cake cookies?? How! Martha, what are you thinking, domestic goddess? What are you thinking? Who wants a carrot cake cookie with an infinitely small amount of frosting holding the 2 together. NOT this woman, I'll tell you that much. I want to taste the frosting with each bite. I don't give a crap if it falls out the sides of my mouth or onto my hands when I bite into it. It needs a lot, it begs for a lot, it aches for it, Martha. Excess here, Martha domestic goddess, is a good thing, honey! Jeez. So my advice to you cyberpeople friends, is to double the frosting recipe. Just my 2 cents worth.

Proceeding, SLATHER, don,t delicately frost, SLATHER the cream cheese frosting onto a cookie,

then sandwich together with the other cookie.OH , yes, how good is that! VERY, I tell you. Not tooting a horn here or anything, but these are absolutely delicious and a favorite of many I make them for, including my mom.

Can you all see my point here with the whole Martha domestic Goddess issue. She contends a thin amount of frosting is enough. I contend it is not, I like the DoubleStuff look. Come on, feel my pain here people, wouldnt you agree?? The one on the right is more tasty, maybe not as domestic goddess-y , but more girl next door-y , don't you think. Well, that's what you get when you visit me here, anyway. Girl next door-y ness, with a dash of odd.

Continue to frost all cookies, BUT ONE MORE BIG HINT, ONE MORE GRAND THOUGHT!! While you are frosting them, pretend that the cookie is a soy chip, and the cream cheese frosting is hummus, and go to town guilt free

Dip a few, eat a few, I won't tell. No one will know. Dip, eat, Dip eat, Dip eat. Like a Rhinestone Cowboy. Where'd that come from? Sugar high?You can have many of these a day, after all they have carrots and oats. Leads to good digestive qualities.

BEST stored in refrigerator.

Looking for other carrot uses, you must check out:

Barbara Bakes light tropical carrot cake. Light, tropical, hawaii, oh so there, you?

How about Tiffany's Carrot cupcakes from her Sweet Diversions blog. I LOVE that name sweet diversions. Many pleasant thoughts come to mind.

Carrot Cheesecake anyone? Check out Bunny's Warm Oven.It looks out of this damn world. The crust alone looks to die for!

Joy the Baker with carrot cake pancakes? OMG delish!

MY own FFHs famous firehouse carrots??

OK, I'll leave you with this.

Two women were diggin in the garden. One pulls out a 2 foot, yes 2 foot, carrot. She says,"This one reminds me of my husbands" The second woman says,"Your husbands is that long?""No, that dirty."