Harvest Apple Cookies
These cookies are like a cobbler. You could even put a few in a bowl with some ice cream. They are best warm but what cookie isn’t? I used our North Carolina Rome Apple because it is one of our best baking apples. The flavor grows richer as it bakes.
Servings: 24
Cook Time: Prep Time: 20 minutes; Total Time: 40 minutes
Meal Type: Dessert
NC Ingredients: Apples
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda.
Beat butter and granulated sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, 2-4 minutes. Reduce speed to low. Beat in egg and vanilla. Add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Add apples and jelly, and beat until just combined.
Using a 1 ½ – inch ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment, spacing about 2 inches apart. (If not baking all the cookies at once, refrigerate dough between batches; dough can be refrigerated in an airtight container for up to 2 days.) Combine sanding sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle each cookie with 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon-sugar mixture.
Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until golden brown and just set, 11 to 13 minutes. Let cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, and then transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely.