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Applesauce Cookies – A Fall Favorite

Applesauce Cookies were a favorite of mine growing up, especially during the fall season. My mom would bottle our own applesauce from apple trees in our backyard, then use it to make yummy cookies all year long, yum!

Applesauce Cookies

Applesauce Cookies

These cookies are moist and cake-like, and scattered with chocolate chips that make them a perfect fall treat!
(SCROLL DOWN TO PRINT RECIPE for Applesauce Cookies)

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup shortening
2 eggs
1 cup applesauce
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups flour
chocolate chips, nuts, raisins

Method:

Mix the first 5 ingredients together.

Add in the rest of the dry ingredients to it, combining well.

Add your chocolate chips, nuts, or raisins and mix in.

Scoop onto a baking sheet. The dough will be very soft. It gets plopped on the baking sheet, but will cook up nicely.

Bake for 8-11 minutes at 400* or until lightly brown.

Makes 3 dozen cookies.

A few baking tricks when making cookies:

Applesauce cookie dough

Try these yummy Fall Applesauce Cookies. They’re a healthier alternative for an after dinner treat.

Applesauce Cookies - A Fall Favorite
Ingredients
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups flour
  • chocolate chips nuts, raisins
Instructions
  1. Mix the first 5 ingredients together.
  2. Add in the rest of the dry ingredients to it, combining well.
  3. Add your chocolate chips, nuts, or raisins and mix in.
  4. Scoop onto a baking sheet. The dough will be very soft. It gets plopped on the baking sheet, but will cook up nicely.
  5. Bake for 8-11 minutes at 400* or until lightly brown.

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Apples Slices – These chocolate peanut butter apple slices are so yummy, and pretty healthy too, especially if you use a good quality dark chocolate.

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Cheesecake Stuffed Baked Apples– The baked apples you know and loved, bumped up a notch with cheesecake stuffing! YUM!

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Apple Cider Float Bar– This is one of our favorite ways to welcome fall! You’ve got to try the experience of enjoying an apple cider float!

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Easy Apple Pie for Your Thanksgiving Feast– No Thanksgiving feast is complete without a delicious apple pie! This recipe has become a family favorite.

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Apple Cider Quinoa Breakfast– The most delicious way to start a brisk fall morning! A warm breakfast is both comforting and filling on a cold, busy day.

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17 comments

  1. i haven’t tried these yet, but they look a lot like the ones my mom made. Instead of mixing the chips in, she would put them on top and decorate the cookies with a little powder sugar. Mmmm…

  2. We make a very similar cookie, but since my kids don’t like the traditional spicy flavor I substitute nutmeg for the cloves and we take out the raisins. We use walnuts in most all of our applesauce recipes because their softer texture is perfect and their flavor is so great with apples.

  3. I tried to make these last night. The only thing I changed was using oil instead of shortening. The batter was way to loose for a cookie, but they made great mini muffins! Thanks for the recipe.

  4. I love it when recipes have simple ingredients that I already have on hand. I received this post and preheated my oven … easy as that :)

  5. These remind me of growing up for sure! We are making applesauce this weekend, just in time to make some of these as well- woohoo!

  6. I love these cookies too. My grandma always made these. They are so perfect this time of year.

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