Baked Carrot Fries

These carrot fries have been nothing but trouble for me but they taste so good so they're forgiven. Baked carrot fries taste just like sweet potato fries and they have less carbs. They're an easy way to get your children or stubborn eater to eat their veggies by presenting them as fries. So how did these "fries" cause me so much trouble? Well, I learned that both my smoke detectors do not like it when my oven reached 500 degrees.

In the original recipe, it called for the oven to be at 500 for 10 minutes. During the time, both alarms went off and I panicked because I could hardly reach to turn them off. Thank heavens for my trusty little black Target stool for helping me with the downstairs detector. Turning the upstairs one was tricky. I was still too short with the stool to twist it off. I tried throwing my lotion bottle at it to stop, nothing. I used a broomstick, nothing. Finally I pulled out my computer chair from my office, climbed on it (did I mention my chair was on wheels and I'm terrified of heights?) and was able to twist the damn thing off. So with all that being said, there is no Finished/Done photo. The fries still tasted good too!

Ingredients
5-8 large carrots
1/2 Cup parmesan cheese 
2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 Tbsp honey
Salt and pepper 
Pinch of garlic and onion powder
 
 Instructions

1.  Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Clean and cut carrots into 1-inch fries. Be careful with cutting the carrots, keep a steady hand.
3. In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients but salt and pepper.
4. Toss to combine.
5. Pour out tossed ingredients onto a large baking sheet and season with salt and pepper.
6. Bake for 20-25 minutes, stir occasionally (you must stir or the fries will stick!).
7. Sprinkle a little extra cheese on top of baked fries and serve hot.    

Step 3

Step 5

What kind of other "fries" do you prefer?