Carrot-Oatmeal-Pecan Snack Cookies

Ingredients

• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1.5 cups firmly brown sugar dark packed
• 0.3 cup butter softened
• 2  carrots grated
• 0.8 cup cherries dried
• 0.5 cup egg substitute 
• 1.8 cups flour all-purpose
• 6 ounces cream cheese softened reduced-fat
• 3 cups regular oats uncooked
• 0.5 cup pecans chopped
• 1.8 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 

Equipment

• baking sheet
• oven
• hand mixer

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and baking soda.
3. Beat butter, cream cheese, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy.
4. Add egg substitute and vanilla, beating until blended. Gradually add flour mixture, beating at low speed just until blended. Stir in oats, dried cherries, and grated carrot.
5. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto baking sheets coated with cooking spray; gently flatten dough into circles.
6. Sprinkle about 1/2 tsp. chopped pecans onto each dough circle, gently pressing into dough.
7. Bake, in batches, at 350 for 13 to 14 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in centers comes out clean.
8. Remove cookies from baking sheets to wire racks, and let cool 10 minutes.