TWD - Gingered Carrot Cookies

I am intrigued by the many books that are available where Mums profess to be able to get their children to eat vegetables by hiding them in other foods like cakes and biscuits. When I mention to colleagues that I have just made a chocolate and zucchini cake or a beetroot cake, or even a pumpkin and prune cake, they look at me aghast. I can therefore only surmise that the "vegetables hidden in treats" trick only works for children because their mums don't tell them that there are vegetables lurking in there. I'd love to hear if you have had any success in tricking fussy eaters into eating their veges by hiding the vegetables in another food.

This week's Tuesday with Dorie challenge is a vegetable-hidden-in-a-cookie creation. It is gingered carrot cookies, and was chosen by Natalia of Gatti Fili E Farina. Dorie says that when she was creating these, she wanted to make a carrot cake in cookie form. I like carrot cake, so I was rather looking forward to these. I even invested in raisins and pecans for the task, neither of which I had to hand at home.

The cookies were easy enough to make, once you got through peeling and grating the carrot. Dorie recommends three carrots to get one cup of grated carrot - I only needed one large carrot.

These cookies are pleasant tasting - just like any other raisin cookies that I have tasted. They are chunky and soft, and the raisins are a standout flavour in them. Although I liked these cookies, I probably won't make them again, because there are easier raisin cookie recipes around that taste just as good.

Thanks to Natalia for hosting us this week - she will have the recipe, and it of course appears in Dorie's book. To see what the other TWD members thought of these cookies, visit the TWD blogroll.