Caramel Apple Cookies

Recipe for Honey Butter Glazed Applesauce Cookies with Caramel bits

Sep 26, 2008 Jackie Milligan

Sinfully sweet and gooey, these gems are caramel apple meets spice cookie. Try them with a warm cup of cinnamon apple cider, one bite and you'll be hooked.

Who can resist a deliciously sticky, gooey caramel apple? These cookies give you hot delicious fresh baked cookies with apples and caramel baked right in, what could be better. Caramel Apple cookies are especially nice on a crisp fall day. They were originally made as a sweet to serve with tea at a shower but kids love them as well as grown ups.

You can use any type of dried apple, chewy or crisp (you could even substitute the little fruit nibbles they sell with the baby food) for this recipe. They are also good with dried pears and butter toffee chips in place of the apples and caramel.

This recipe will require a little more care as the caramel bits will melt all over your cookie sheet if you don't take precautions. Before you start to bake, be sure that you have either baking parchment or waxed paper on hand.

Caramel Apple Cookies

Ingredients:

  • 1 c all purpose flour
  • 1 c graham flour (or other whole wheat flour)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 c brown sugar (firmly packed)
  • 1 c unsweetened applesauce
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 c butter (softened)
  • 1 c chopped dried apples
  • 3/4 c caramel bits

Mixing Directions:

  1. place softened butter in a large mixing bowl
  2. add brown sugar and mix well
  3. stir in applesauce and vanilla
  4. in a separate bowl beat egg slightly and then add to butter mixture stir until egg is incorporated
  5. add chopped apples and stir to get pieces distributed
  6. in a separate bowl mix the two flours
  7. add baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt and stir to mix evenly
  8. pour flour mixture into wet ingredients one quarter at a time mixing well after each addition
  9. when all flour has been added, mix in caramel bits

Baking Directions:

  1. pre-heat oven to 375
  2. cut pieces of parchment paper the length of your baking sheet
  3. cut a piece of parchment to cover your cooling rack
  4. place parchment on cookie sheet
  5. spoon batter onto cookie sheet with a tablespoon
  6. cook on rack in center of oven for 12 to 15 min until cookies are lightly browned
  7. remove cookies from cookie sheet as soon as they are out of the oven
  8. place on parchment covered cooling rack

Honey Butter Glaze:

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2tbsp plus 1 tsp honey

  1. place butter and honey in a small microwave safe dish and microwave a few seconds at a time just until butter is melted
  2. mix thoroughly with a fork
  3. spread glaze on cooled cookies with a pastry brush
These cookies will freeze well if the glaze is left off until you remove them from the freezer

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