These apple sauce carrot cookies are gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, and made with no added sugar! They’re made with sweet potato puree, carrots, oats, and other wholesome ingredients.

My toddler loves cookies! I mean, same. I love making cookies with him, but always want to be aware of how much added sugar he’s getting. Luckily, he loves applesauce, and it makes the perfect swap for sweetener in cookies.

These cookies are made with applesauce instead of added sugar, oats instead of white flour, and are even made with hidden veggies with both carrots and sweet potato! They’re also egg free which makes it much easier and less stressful to make with kids. My toddler loves them, and they’re incredibly easy to make.

Sugar-Free Healthy Applesauce Carrot Cookies Ingredients

• Old fashioned rolled oats. Quick oats won’t work in this recipe.
• Oat flour. You can use store-bought oat flour, or ground oats in a blender to make flour.
• Shredded carrots. For hidden veggies!
• Hemp hearts and flaxseed. These add some extra nutrients to the cookies! If you don’t have one of these ingredients, you can simply swap one for the other.
• Cashew butter. You can also use peanut butter, almond butter, or sunflower seed butter.
• Applesauce. Applesauce is the sweetener in this recipe and it also helps to substitute the eggs.
• Sweet potato puree. You can also use pumpkin puree!

How to make Sugar Free Toddler Carrot Cookies

• Make the dough. Pat the shredded carrots dry to remove any excess liquid. Combine the oats, oat flour, hemp hearts, cinnamon, and flax meal in a bowl. Stir in the cashew butter, sweet potato puree, apple sauce, and shredded carrots. Stir until the dough is fully incorporated. It should be sticky but firm.

• Scoop the cookies. Use a cookie scoop to scoop evenly sized cookies and add to the baking sheet. Slightly flatten with the back of your hand.
• Bake. Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 12 minutes or until firm. Carefully transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool before serving.

Are these cookies healthy?

Healthy is always a subjective term, but these cookies are definitely wholesome and made with real food ingredients!

How do you store these cookies?

Keep these cookies stored in the fridge, or you can store them in the freezer!

Can you use a different vegetable in these cookies?

I’ve also used zucchini in these cookies instead of carrots, and that also works great!

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Healthy Applesauce Carrot Cookies (Gluten-free, Egg-free)

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• Author: Michelle
• Total Time: 27 minutes
• Yield: 12 servings 1x

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These apple sauce carrot cookies are gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, and made with no added sugar! They’re made with sweet potato puree, carrots, oats, and other wholesome ingredients.

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Ingredients

Units USM Scale 1x2x3x

• 1/4 cup shredded carrots
• 2 cups old fashioned oats
• 1/4 cup oat flour
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tbsp hemp hearts
• 1 tbsp flax meal
• 1 tbsp cashew butter (sub any other nut or seed butter)
• 1/2 cup canned sweet potato puree (sub pumpkin puree)
• 1/2 cup applesauce

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F and line a baking sheet with lightly greased parchment paper.
2. Pat the shredded carrots dry to remove any excess liquid.
3. Combine the oats, oat flour, hemp hearts, cinnamon, and flax meal in a bowl. Stir in the cashew butter, sweet potato puree, apple sauce, and shredded carrots. Stir until the dough is fully incorporated. It should be sticky but firm.
4. Use a cookie scoop (or your hands) to scoop evenly sized cookies and add to the baking sheet, and space about 2″ apart. Slightly flatten with the back of your hand.
5. Transfer to the preheated oven and bake for 12 minutes or until firm.
6. Carefully transfer to a cooling rack and allow to cool before serving.

Notes

Adapted from The Big Mans World.

• Prep Time: 15
• Cook Time: 12

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 cookie
• Calories: 73
• Fat: 1.6g
• Carbohydrates: 12.7g
• Fiber: 2.1g
• Protein: 2.7g