Apple Pie Cookies

Apple Pie Cookies may just be the perfect treat. Grated fresh apple is blended with apple pie spices. Soft, sweet and chewy all in one little package.

How can there be so many cookie recipes! That wasn’t a question but a statement of awe. It always blows my mind how there are new recipes popping up on the internet by cooks and bakers around the world.

My husband is always trying to think up new recipes for me. He thinks there are just only so many. I have told him that all those notebooks that I have been writing in are full of ideas, inspiration and recipes. I don’t think he believes me because he keeps being concerned.

I told him to just think of recipes like faces. How can there be so many different faces with just two eyes, a nose and a mouth? It didn’t help.

So, here I am with a new recipe and it is good!

P.S. I have lots more.

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Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 24 cookies

Serving Size: 2 cookies

Ingredients

For the cookies:

1/2 cup vegan shortening (I use Spectrum)

1 cup coconut sugar

1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract

1 apple (McIntosh or Granny Smith, or Gala or your favorite), peeled and chopped very fine or grated

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon sea salt

12 teaspoons baking powder

Cinnamon/sugar mixture:

4 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

Cover a baking pan with parchment paper.

Mix the cookies:

With a hand mixer cream the sugar and shortening together for about 2 minutes.

Stir in the prepared apple.

In a separate bowl sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.

Combine the dry mixture with the wet mixture and just blend.

Scoop into heaping tablespoons full and roll into balls.

Mix the sugar/cinnamon mixture:

Combine the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a small bowl.

Roll each ball in the sugar/cinnamon mixture.

Place on a the parchment covered baking sheet about 2" apart.

Bake at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes.

Do not over bake. They will be a little soft when they are removed from the oven.

Remove to a rack to cool.

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