Apple Cookies – Easy Drop Cookie for the Fall!
These Apple Cookies are so delicious! Apple Cookies are drop cookies, the easiest cookie you can make! The inside is soft and chewy and the apples and nuts give them a nice, crispy crunch!
🍽️ Recipe Name: Apple Cookies
⏰ Ready In: 1 hour
⏳ Prep Time: 20 minutes
🔥 Cook Time: 40 minutes
👥 Serves: 48 cookies
🥕 Main Ingredients: All-purpose flour, butter, brown sugar, eggs, apples, chopped nuts, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, baking soda.
🍳 Special Equipment: Stand mixer or hand mixer, mixing bowls, baking sheets, parchment paper or silicone baking mats, cookie scoop (optional).
⭐ Why You’ll Love It: Soft, chewy cookies packed with fresh apples, crunchy nuts, and warm fall spices. They’re easy drop cookies with no rolling or cutting required, making them perfect for baking a big batch.
👇 Full measurements and instructions are in the recipe card below.
Happy National Cookie Day!
When the days start to cool and get shorter, we all need some comforting treats to eat. The other plus is being able to turn the heat on to warm up this old farmhouse.
These easy apple cookies have all of the flavors of fall. These wonderful apple cookies have lots of apple and nut chunks, and those warming fall spices. They’re one of those classic grandma cookie recipes that never go out of style and are always worth baking.
They are perfect to send in the kids’ lunch boxes and great for an afternoon snack. If you’re looking for more cookie recipes to bake this season, be sure to check out these delicious cookie ideas.
What You Need
- Flour – all-purpose flour
- Baking Soda
- Cinnamon – ground cinnamon
- Cloves – ground cloves
- Nutmeg – ground nutmeg
- Salt – to taste
- Butter – use unsalted butter when baking
- Eggs – use large eggs
- Apples – use apples that are in season, such as Granny Smith, Honeycrisp, Empire, Cortland, or McIntosh
- Nuts – preferably pecans or walnuts
- Powdered Sugar – for the optional glaze
- Milk or Water – for the optional glaze
These cookies are not only great in the fall, but they are also incredibly easy. And… everyone loves them. They’re also a great choice for bake sales, along with these other favorite bake sale cookie recipes.
How to Make Them
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Use a stand mixer to mix these cookies, or mix them by hand.
- Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.
- Cream butter.
- Add sugar. Beat until the dough is light and fluffy.
- Add eggs and combine.
- Incorporate dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, just until mixed.
- Mix in apples and nuts by hand.
- Place a rounded teaspoon of dough (or use a small cookie scoop) on a parchment-covered baking sheet. (or place on silicone baking mats)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until golden.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool.
Mix in chopped nuts and apples by hand. Place teaspoon-sized chunks on a cookie sheet about 2″ apart. Bake at 350°F for about 10-12 minutes.
Pro Tips for Your Success
- Always use unsalted butter for baking.
- Allow butter to come to room temperature for at least an hour.
- When creaming the butter and sugar, keep beating them until the color is a very light yellow and the texture is creamy.
- Always measure all of your ingredients before starting to put the recipe together. This will ensure that you don’t forget a crucial ingredient.
- Rough chop apples and nuts.
Why Does This Recipe Work?
- These cookies have all of the warming flavors of fall. Namely cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, in other words, apple pie seasoning.
- Perfect for when you are on the run.
- Great for after-school snacks.
- Great for the lunchbox.
- Incredibly easy.
- They taste fantastic, and everyone loves them!
These apple cookies are the easiest fall cookies. For more fall and winter flavors, give these gingerbread thumbprint cookies a try.
Apple Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 cup softened unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup apples, chopped
- 1 cup nuts, chopped
- 2/3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon milk or water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Use a stand mixer to mix these cookies, or mix by hand.
- Mix flour, baking soda, salt and spices (or substitute store bought or homemade apple pie spice.)2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- Cream butter.1/2 cup softened unsalted butter
- Add sugar and beat until dough is light and fluffy.1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- Add eggs and combine.2 eggs
- Incorporate dry ingredients, just until mixed. Do not overmix.
- Mix in chopped apples and nuts by hand.1 cup apples, chopped, 1 cup nuts, chopped
- Place rounded teaspoon piece of dough (or use a small cookie scoop) on parchment paper covered baking sheet. (or place on silicone baking mats)
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until golden.
For glaze
- Mix powdered sugar with milk or water until lumps disappear. Mix by hand or with a mixer.2/3 cup powdered sugar, 1 Tablespoon milk or water
- Drizzle onto cookies.
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Originally published December 4, 2018 Updated November 9, 2021.
These look great! Can you please provide the details for the glaze? It seems to be missing from the recipe.
The glaze is just powdered sugar mixed with water or milk. Just add enough to get it to drizzle. You can mix by hand or with a mixer. Thanks for checking out the recipe Liz!