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Clementine Carrot Cookies
Clementine Carrot Cookies
2 Cups Mama’s Almond Flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 Cup Spectrum Shortening
3/4 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Grated Raw Carrots
2 Tablespoons of Grated Clementine Rind (about three)
1 teaspoon Clementine Juice (reserve the remainder of the juice for frosting)
1 egg
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
Powdered Sugar
Reserved Clementine Juice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and xanthan gum in a medium bowl and set aside. In a mixer cream the shortening and sugar scraping down the sides once or twice. Â Add Carrots, rind, juice, and egg. Mix until thoroughly combined. It will be a gorgeous orange color.
Next, with mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients, and then mix on medium until thoroughly combined scraping down bowl once. Don’t over mix.
Drop by teaspoons onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes and remove to a rack to cool. While cookies are baking, pour powdered sugar into a small bowl and slowly add the reserved clementine juice. Whisk until it is thoroughly combined and is of drizzling consistency. Not too runny, about what I would call medium thick.
Wait for cookies to cool and then drizzle with a little frosting.
8 Comments on “Clementine Carrot Cookies”
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The photos are amazing and the end result looks just scrumptious. Clementines have such an amazing flavour. I really would like to try these.
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They are delicious! You won’t be disappointed. 🙂
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Oh, my goodness these look delicious. I’ve never baked a gluten-free anything, so where do I buy the xantham gum and what does it look like?? I’d like to bake these.
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I live in Washington and our regular grocery stores sell Xanthan gum in the health food section (Bob’s Red Mill Xanthan Gum). You could also get it at Whole Foods. It looks like powder, kind of like a creamy colored baking powder. You can purchase the Almond flour here http://www.glutenfreemama.com , or I’m sure you could also find it at Whole Foods or a health food store in your area. I buy mine at Yoke’s grocery store. That’s the only place I’ve been able to find it here besides our local large health food grocery store, Huckleberry’s. If you look through the Clementine Carrot blog I also listed the original recipe that is not gluten-free, you could try that just substituting the increased Clementine peel and clementine juice. They are so good, you will love them! Thanks for stopping by the blog. 🙂
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Oh yum! I’m a glutton for gluten. I have a friend who is not. Perhaps, with these two recipes, we can find a way to work out our differences. Through baked goods. You’re a hero.
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