Applesauce Cookies were a favorite of mine growing up. We would bottle our own applesauce, then use it to make yummy cookies all year long. They are moist and cake-like, and scattered with chocolate chips to make them a perfect Fall treat.
Recipe for Applesauce Cookies:
- 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
Mix the first 5 ingredients together. Then add in the rest of the dry ingredients to it, combining well. Now add your chocolate chips, nuts, or raisins. 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.
Here’s a few baking tricks I like to use when making cookies:
- A cookie scoop for the dough helps them come out equally sized.
- Baking with 2 cookie sheets makes the time go by much faster.
- I always bake cookies using my silicon baking mats! Breezy cleanup.
Try these yummy Fall Applesauce Cookies. They’re a healthier alternative for an after dinner treat.
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These look so yummy, and they remind me of my childhood. What a perfect fall treat.
ohhh thanks for the recipe! We will make these today!
I love these cookies too. My grandma always made these. They are so perfect this time of year.
Yummy, I’m going to make these this weekend! I love to make applesauce muffins, but I’ve never even thought of applesauce cookies!
Oh, yum! My mom used to make applesauce cookies, but they never looked that good. :)
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!
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 :)
This is my all time favorite cookie.
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.
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.