Shredded apples and apple pie spice in a cookie taste like you're biting into Fall. With just 8 ingredients, you can bake these delicious, soft, and buttery Apple Cookies in just a few minutes!

Tips and Tricks for Making This Apple Cookies Recipe:

Before mixing the dry ingredients like all-purpose flour, baking soda, and granulated brown sugar, sift them individually. This easy but very important step would make your cookies nice and evenly textured. It wouldn't be fun biting into a lump of flour in between 🙂
After baking your Apple Cookies, store them in an airtight container so you can enjoy them for several days - that is if you did not eat the whole batch in one sitting.
If you do not have nonstick cookie sheets or pans, you can line your cookie sheets with parchment paper.
To keep your apple shreds from turning brown, you can soak the apple slices in water with lemon juice before shredding.

How to Make this Apple Cookies Recipe:

Gather the ingredients for this Apple Cookies recipe and once the ingredients are all ready, let's begin!

butter
brown sugar
baking soda
apple pie spice
egg
all-purpose flour
apple juice
tart apple

Preheat to 350F, and line the baking sheet with parchment paper or a baking mat.

In a large bowl, mix butter, then add brown sugar and mix very well:

mixing butter and granulated brown sugar in a large bowl

After mixing well, add the baking soda, apple pie spice, and egg then mix again using a handheld mixer:

mixed butter and sugar using a handheld mixer

Add flour and mix and mix again until all the flour is evenly distributed:

adding in the dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture for the Apple cookies recipe

Now it's time to add the apple juice and apples and mix. You can use a handheld mixer or a rubber spatula, like what I used here:

adding the apple shreds to the apple cookie dough and mixing it using a rubber spatula

Bake for 12-14 minutes if making large cookies. If you want to have a bigger yield, make smaller cookies, which will also bake faster:

ready to bake Apple cookies on a baking mat

These Apple Cookies made my kitchen smell so good!

freshly baked Apple cookies on a baking mat

These cookies are best served during the Fall season and at Thanksgiving parties since apples are abundant at this time of the year.

delicious and buttery soft Apple cookies on a white plate

Enjoy!

Frequently Asked Questions for the Coffee Mint Cookies Recipe:

Q: Should these cookies be refrigerated?

A: Yes, you can keep this in the fridge but make sure to store them in an airtight container. Place at room temperature before serving or warm them up in a microwave oven.

Q: Can I increase the quantity of shredded apples?

A: Putting more than 1 large apple would make the dough very crumbly and would fall apart during the baking process.

Q: Can I make the dough ahead and freeze it?

A: Yes, you can freeze the mixed dough and thaw it completely at room temperature before baking it.

Q: Would this work with almond flour?

A: Using almond flour in this recipe would work as long as you use the same quantity of all-purpose flour as listed.

Q: How many cookies would this recipe make?

A: If you make large cookies, you can make 10-12 Apple cookies but if you make it smaller, it would make up to 16 cookies per batch.

Q: What did you use for shredding the apples?

A: I used a regular fruit/vegetable shredder with small blades to make the apple shreds small enough to bake fast.

Here are more delicious cookie recipes that you should try:

4.50 from 2 votes

Print Pin Recipe

Apple Cookies

Fresh shreds of apples and apple pie spice in a cookie smells like the Fall season using just 8 ingredients - you can bake these delicious, soft, buttery Apple Cookies in just a few minutes!

Author: Lainey

Ingredients

Instructions

Preheat to 350F, line baking sheet with parchment paper or baking mat.
In a large bowl, mix butter, then add brown sugar, baking soda, apple pie spice, egg and mix very well. Add flour and mix, then add the apple juice and apples and mix very well.
Bake for 12-14 minutes if making large cookies.