🍎🍪 Irresistible Apple Pie Cookies

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All the Cozy Flavor of Apple Pie—In Cookie Form

✨ Introduction

Apple Pie Cookies are soft, buttery cookies packed with warm cinnamon-spiced apples and that classic homemade pie flavor—without rolling out pie dough. They’re easy, comforting, and totally addictive, perfect for fall baking, holidays, or anytime you want apple pie vibes in a hand-held treat.

🧺 Ingredients (Makes about 20 cookies)

Apple Filling

  • 2 medium apples, peeled and finely diced
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • Pinch of nutmeg
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Cookie Dough

  • ½ cup (115 g) unsalted butter, softened
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon salt

Optional Topping

  • Powdered sugar glaze or cinnamon sugar

🧑‍🍳 Instructions

1️⃣ Make the Apple Filling

  1. In a small pan, melt butter over medium heat.
  2. Add apples, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice.
  3. Cook 5–7 minutes until apples are soft and syrupy.
  4. Let cool completely.

2️⃣ Make the Cookie Dough

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C / 350°F.
  2. Cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
  3. Beat in egg and vanilla.
  4. Mix flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
  5. Gradually combine dry ingredients with wet.

3️⃣ Assemble the Cookies

  1. Gently fold cooled apple filling into dough.
  2. Scoop dough onto lined baking sheets (2 tbsp per cookie).
  3. Leave space between cookies—they spread slightly.

4️⃣ Bake

  • Bake 10–12 minutes, until edges are set and centers are soft.
  • Cool on tray 5 minutes, then transfer to rack.

💡 Pro Tips

  • Dice apples very small to prevent soggy cookies
  • Use Granny Smith for tartness or Honeycrisp for sweetness
  • Chill dough 20 minutes if too soft
  • Drizzle glaze once cookies are completely cool

🔄 Variations

  • Apple Pie Thumbprints: Press a dent and fill with apple filling
  • Stuffed Cookies: Wrap dough around apple filling
  • Glazed Apple Pie Cookies: Powdered sugar + milk + vanilla
  • Oatmeal Apple Pie Cookies: Replace ½ cup flour with oats

❤️ Who Will Love These?

  • Apple pie lovers 🍎
  • Cookie fans 🍪
  • Holiday bakers
  • Kids and adults alike

🌟 Conclusion

Irresistible Apple Pie Cookies are soft, cozy, and bursting with spiced apple flavor—everything you love about apple pie in an easy cookie form. One bite and they’ll become a repeat favorite.

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