Oatmeal Apple Cookies

A stack of three oat meal cookies sitting on crinkled parchment paper with a glass of milk in the background.

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4.77 from 17 votes

These soft oatmeal apple cookies are a delcious simple cookie recipe loaded with oats and pops of fresh sweet apple.

Prep Time10

Cook Time12

Total Time22

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: apple cookies, oatmeal apple cookies, apple raisin cookies

Servings: cookies

Calories: 99kcal

Author: Stacey

Ingredients

110 g butter
50 g brown sugar ¼ cup
25 g apple sauce 1 tablespoon
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
100 g quick cook oats 1 cup
75 g flour ½ cup
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
100 g chopped apple 1 medium apple
70 g raisins (optional) ½ cup

Instructions

Heat your oven to 180 degrees celsius.
DIce the apple into small cubes (5mm) I leave the peel on, but remove the core.
Cream the butter and sugar, I use my stand mixer for this but you can use a handheld beater or a wooden spoon and some elbow grease.
Add the apple sauce and vanilla, beat.
Add the flour, oats, baking powder and cinnamon. Mix until combined, I do this in the stand mixer on low speed.
Fold in the diced apple and raisins
Scoop your cookie dough into 12 even portions, roll into balls, place on a lined baking tray, then flatten them gently with a fork.
Bake at 180 degrees celsius for 12 minutes until lightly golden brown on the edges. The cookies will be soft, cool for 5 minutes before removing from the baking tray.

Notes

Tips

These cookies will last 2-3 days in an air-tight container on the bench, you can freeze these apple cookies for 3-4 months.

Choose a firm sweet eating apple such as Jazz, Sweet Tango, or Pink Lady, these apples will hold their shape when baked. A cooking apple like granny smith becomes too soft in this cookie recipe.

Ingredient Notes and Substitutes

Apple: These are apple cookies so you can't really leave out the apple. I use a sweet firm apple like Pink Lady, Eve, Jazz, Sweet Tango.
Apple sauce: If you don't want to use apple sauce you can substitute this for an egg
Brown sugar: Brown sugar can be substituted for any granulated sugar.
Quick Cook Oats: I have not tested this recipe with any substitutes for the quick cook oats.
Plain flour: This recipe will work with both wholemeal flour and gluten free flours.
Butter: This can be substituted for soft coconut oil. a full fat margarine or a vegan butter.
Raisins: This can be left out, or subbed for sultanas or chopped dates.

Nutrition

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