Name: Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 55 min
Cuisine: Vegan
Ingredients: 2 flax eggs (2 TBSP ground flaxseed + 5 TBSP filtered water); 1 cup grated/pureed Grimmway Farms Bagged Carrots (~3-4 carrots); ½ cup almond butter; ¼ cup coconut oil, melted; 1/3 cup pure maple syrup; 1 cup oat flour; 1 cup gluten-free organic old-fashioned rolled oats; ½ cup almond flour; ½ tsp baking powder; 1/4 tsp cinnamon; ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans; 8-oz. vegan cream cheese; 2 TBSP maple syrup; pinch of cinnamon

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Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies made with carrot cake cookies sandwiched with a vegan cream cheese filling. Perfect for a spring dessert!

Is anyone else spring dreaming right about now?!

While I do my best to stay in the moment and appreciate the beauty of every season, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited for warmer weather.

My first ever cake was a carrot cake, AKA the cake my parents got me that my grubby one-year-old hands tore apart orange piece by piece.

So carrot cake reminds me of my birthday, spring, and the promise of warmer days.

We’re still a little ways away from sunscreen and flip flops and floppy beach hats, but let me distract you with my latest and greatest.

I made Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies for upcoming National Carrot Cake Day!

These Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies are made with hearty carrot cake cookies sandwiched with a vegan cream cheese filling.

They’re perfect for a spring (or spring dreaming) dessert!

What You Need to Make Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies:

Here’s what you need to make Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies:

ground flaxseed
Grimmway Farms Bagged Carrots
almond butter
coconut oil
pure maple syrup
oat flour
old-fashioned rolled oats
almond flour
baking powder
cinnamon
chopped walnuts or pecans

That’s it!

How to Make Vegan Carrot Cake Cookies

The first step to making these moon pies is to bake the cookies!

Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, combine the flaxseed and filtered water and allow it to gel for ~5 minutes to create your flax egg.

To the same bowl, add in the grated carrots, almond butter, coconut oil, and maple syrup and stir everything well to combine.

Next, add in the oat flour, rolled oats, almond flour, baking powder, and cinnamon and stir everything until you have a smooth thick batter.

Fold in the chopped walnuts or pecans.

Scoop 1-2 TBSP of batter for each cookie onto the parchment lined baking sheet.

The cookies won’t flatten much, so spread them into a small circle with a spatula or the back of a spoon.

Bake the cookies 20-25 minutes, or until they’re golden brown underneath and around the edges.

Transfer the cookies to a wire rack until they’re completely cool.

What You Need to Make Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting

While the cookies are cooling, whip up your vegan cream cheese frosting.

Here’s what you need:

vegan cream cheese
pure maple syrup
pinch of cinnamon

That’s it!

How to Make Vegan Cream Cheese Frosting

The frosting is super easy to mix up by hand in a bowl.

Mix up the cream cheese frosting in a small bowl with a fork until it’s smooth and creamy.

It should be very easy to whip up into a smooth consistency.

Add more maple syrup, as desired, for sweeter frosting.

How to Make Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies

When cookies are completely cool, add a spoonful of cream cheese frosting to the flat bottom of a cookie, then sandwich another cookie on top to create your moon pie.

Continue this until all of the cookies and frosting are used up!

You should have 8-12 moon pies total, depending on how large you made your cookies.

Enjoy your Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies immediately!

About Grimmway Farms Carrots

I used Grimmway Farms Bagged Carrots to bring these moon pies to Earth.

Using their bagged carrots to make this recipe is easy to infuse these cookies with carrot-cake flavor.

Carrots are packed with vitamin A and beta carotene to support your vision and your balanced lifestyle!

I like to shave my carrots and roughly chop them before adding them to the blender.

For this recipe, I love a finely grated, almost pureéd carrot for a smooth consistency with lots of sweet carrot flavor.

Grimmway Farms is my favorite sources for produce.

Their produce is delicious and you can taste and see the quality and care gone into the cultivation and distribution!

How to Serve Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies

These Vegan Carrot Cake Moon Pies are a fun dessert to make and share.

They have a cute presentation that’s perfect for entertaining!

Try the cookies solo, because they’re delicious as is, too.

If you have leftover frosting, serve it on fruit, pancakes, or toast.

Store leftover carrot cake moon pies in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.

It’s important to note that the consistency of the cream cheese frosting may dry out over time, so these moon pies are best when fresh!

Enjoy!

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