Carrot Cake Cookies

Semi-homemade Carrot Cake Cookies filled with cream cheese chips and topped with the cutest royal icing characters. They’re a super easy alternative to actual carrot cake and make the perfect addition to an Easter buffet.

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Fun Facts…

• You can adapt this recipe with almost any cake mix and any fillings!
• I refrigerate it so that it doesn’t spread when baking
• For me, it looks much better when the characters are added to the dough before baking…it looks more “seamless”
• If you can’t find cream cheese chips, use white chocolate!
• I made these as cookie sandwiches before and filled them with cream cheese frosting…SO GOOD
• The Easter bunny and carrot are found HERE
• Here is where I found the cream cheese chips (bought at Walmart)
• If you don’t want to use oil, sub melted cooled butter