Caramel Apple Cookies. These easy to make, soft cookies are bursting with bits of fresh apple and chewy caramel.
These Caramel Apple Cookies are the perfect Fall dessert. Loaded up with spices, fresh apple, and little bits of gooey caramel. Using the caramel bits makes this recipe super easy to toss together, and keeps a good consistency of the caramel after the cookies cool down. These cookies won’t get rock hard!
How To Bake with Apples?
Baking with apples is easy! My favorite for baking with is Granny Smith. They are firm and have a wonderful tart flavoring that lends well to baking. The end product will still have chunks of apple (not mush) and the tartness helps keep the food from being overly sweet.
You can of course bake with other types of apples. Other apples that hold up well in baking include: Jonathan, Braeburn, Honeycrisp, Jonagolds and Pink Ladys.
Just remember for these cookies you want to peel the apples and then dice the apples fairly small. The smaller the better so that the dough can hold together and each bite is enjoyable!
What is Apple Pie Spice?
This recipe calls for Apple Pie Spice. It’s a blend of spices that you would typically find in an apple pie. And if you don’t have a little bottle of it readily available in your spice cabinet, of course you can make your own blend!
It’s a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cardamom. There’s a recipe here at Betty Crocker. I’ve also seen recipes that include a little bit of ginger too for a little zip.
More Apple Recipes:
More Cookie Recipes:
- Banana Split Cookies
- Brown Butter Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Caramel Apple Cookies. These easy to make, soft cookies are bursting with bits of fresh apple and chewy caramel.
- Prep Time: 8 mins
- Cook Time: 14 mins
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 18
- Category: dessert
- Method: baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 and 1/2 cup peeled and diced apple (about 2 small apples or 1 large apple)
- 1/4 cup caramel bits
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In small mixing bowl combine the flour and baking soda, salt, and apple pie spice set aside.
- In mixing bowl add room temperature butter and sugars. Beat with medium speed to cream them together. Add in the egg and vanilla extract and continue to beat with medium speed until completely combined.
- Add in the flour mixture slowly, half at a time mixing with low speed each time until combined.
- Fold in the chopped apples and caramel bits. Recipe works best if the apple is diced into small pieces.
- Prepare a cookie sheet with cooking spray, or parchment paper. Place about a tablespoon of dough on the sheet.
- Bake for approximately 14 minutes. Allow to cool on the sheet for 5 minutes then remove to continue cooling on a wire rack.
Notes
Granny Smith apples are the best for baking, but you can use any apple.
If you don’t have apple pie spice on hand you can make your own spice blend. 3 tablespoons cinnamon, 2 teaspoons nutmeg, 1 teaspoon cardamom, 1 teaspoon allspice. Mix it together and store in a sealed container or old spice jar.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
Keywords: cookies, apple, caramel, fall,
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MonicaSGS says
Wait…wait…. Rainbow Sherbet Cupcakes?!!!!!! I must be dreaming!!! Guess what I will be making…and SOON!!!
Serene says
Yay!! They are sooo good! Enjoy 🙂
Ashlyn @ Belle of the Kitchen says
Wow, Serene! Seriously, let me at that gooey caramel coming out of these cookie! Looks absolutely amazing!
Serene says
Thanks so much Ashlyn!!
Jaren (Diary of a Recipe Collector) says
Those COOKIES look AH-Mazing!! Yummo!
Serene says
Thanks Jaren! Have an awesome week! XO
Meggan | Culinary Hill says
Oh man, Apple Cookies oozing with Caramel??? Wow! These look so delicious!
Serene says
Thanks so much Meggan 🙂 I think anything oozing with caramel is just amazing!
Ann Aguirre says
If I were to win the kitchenaid mixer, I would choose the color pink and I would use this to make the caramel apple cookies!! 🙂
Serene says
A pink one would be so much fun!! And these cookies would definitely taste so much better being made in a pink KitchenAid! Good luck Ann 🙂
Ignacia says
Dear Serene,
I just bumped into your blog by accident, and loved it! I can’t wait to try the caramel apple cookies, but I need your help…see, I live overseas and here we don’t have pudding, can you think of a substitute for the recipe? Please tell me you do!!!!! I so want to try ’em…
Thank you in advance!!!!!!
Serene says
Aww. Thanks so much! You’re so sweet. Sadly, I don’t know of a substitute for the pudding. But.. I did use this recipe because it’s a cookie base that I love, the pudding just makes them a little softer. You might be able to use a cookie dough base you enjoy and just add the apple, spices, and caramel center. I can’t tell you for sure that they’ll turn out the same, the baking time might be different. But it might be worth a shot!
Ignacia Valdes says
Thank you so much! You’re the sweetest!!! I’ll try it and let you know how they turn out.
Best to you!
Alyssa says
Do we have to prepare the pudding first or just add the dry mix?
Serene says
Hi Alyssa, just use the dry pudding mix 🙂
Alyssa says
Thanks!
Danijela says
I love these. Perfect seasonal cookies!
Emily says
Hi Serene! This recipe looks amazing! I love cookies that use pudding in the mix, and I see a lot of comments about pudding, but don’t see it in the recipe. Did you change it up from the original post? And if I use a different pudding mix cookie base, would you recommend using vanilla or caramel pudding with this recipe?
Serene says
Hi Emily! This recipe did use to include a pudding mix. I updated the recipe recently to give the same type of texture, but without the mix. If you want to use a pudding mix cookie base I had always used vanilla. Let me know if you try the cookies 🙂