Halloween Part 2 - Carrot Leaf Cookies

This recipe can be adapted for any season, but this one here is for Halloween. We made something similar last Easter, and shaped the cookies like carrots and radishes. The ones we made today were shaped like leaves and "pumpkins" (aka circles).

Ingredients:

1 C butter, softened
1/2 C brown sugar
2 eggs
3 cups flour, white or wheat (plus some for rolling out dough)
1 t baking powder
3 med carrots or 4 small carrots, chopped into 1" sections
1/2 C applesauce
1/4 C water (approx.)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Add flour and baking soda and mix.

In a blender, blend carrots, applesauce and water (add only enough water to get the carrots completely chopped up). Blended mix should be between 2-3 cups.


Add carrot mixture to flour mixture.

Roll out dough to about 1/2" thick, using LOTS of flour so the dough doesn't stick. Cut into shapes.

Bake cookies about 20 min on ungreased cookie sheet, until just barely browning on the edges. Makes about 3 - 5 dozen, depending on the size you cut them. Healthier alternative to other cookies, and yummy to boot.

For different colors, use blended peas for green and strawberries for pink... play with it; it's fun. Just keep in mind that the color is severely diminished by baking.