Apple Pie Cookies
Soft cinnamon cookie dough sandwiched round a spoonful of spiced apple filling and baked until golden at the edges.
Photograph credit: Apple butter thumbprint cookies (6373324787) by Karen and Brad Emerson · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Build the Meal Around Apple Pie Cookies
- Vanilla ice cream
- Hot tea
- Custard
- Warm milk
How to Cook Apple Pie Cookies
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Simmer the apples with the caster sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice for 8 minutes until soft. Stir in the cornflour for 1 minute and cool completely.
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Heat the oven to 180°C / 355°F and line two trays. Beat the butter and brown sugar until pale, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
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Mix in the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt to a soft dough.
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Flatten a walnut-sized ball of dough in your palm, put a teaspoon of filling in the middle, fold the dough round it and seal. Make twelve.
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Bake for 15 minutes until golden at the edges. Cool on the tray for 5 minutes.
Worth Knowing Before You Cook
Cook the apples first.
Cool the filling.
If your oven runs hot, check at 12 minutes.
Seal the seams well.
Storing and Reheating
Keeps in an airtight tin for 3 days.
What's in a Serving
Per serving, calculated from the ingredient list with USDA FoodData Central figures (SR Legacy). A calculation, not a laboratory analysis: brands, cuts and how you measure change the real numbers. How the figures are worked out.
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