Bready or Not Original: Chewy Apple-Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies
These chewy cookies are infused with autumnal flavors, but are great year-round!
Course: Dessert, Snack
Keyword: apple, apple butter, applesauce, cranberries, oats, walnuts
Servings: 55
Author: Beth Cato
Equipment
cookie sheet
parchment paper
teaspoon scoop or spoon
Ingredients
1baking apple such Granny Smith or Gala
2cupsold-fashioned oatsalso called rolled oats
1cupall-purpose flour
1teaspoonground cinnamon
1/2teaspoonbaking soda
1/2teaspoonkosher salt
1/4teaspoonground nutmeg
1cupbrown sugar packed
1/4cupunsalted butter melted and cooled
1/4cupapple butter or applesauce
1large egg room temperature
1/2cupdried cranberries
1/2cupwalnuts or pecans, chopped
Instructions
Preheat oven at 35-degrees. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper. Peel apple and finely chop enough to fill 1/2 cup. This likely will not be an entire apple; eat and enjoy the rest.
Mix together oats, flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg. In a separate bowl, combine the brown sugar, butter, apple butter, and egg. Gradually incorporate the contents of bowls. Fold in the chopped apple, cranberries, and walnuts.
Use a teaspoon scoop or spoon to place dough, spaced on, on prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until set but still soft. Let sit on cookie sheet on stove for a few minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Continue to bake rest of dough.