Apple Pie Cookies – sticky and chewy, bite-sized caramel apple pies. Sometimes the regular old apple pie recipe is just too much dessert to handle. These gooey bites bring you the best of both worlds: the fruity-caramel flavor of traditional pie, with all of the convenience of a simple cookie recipe! (No fork required!!!)
I know, I haven’t actually imagined high temp water, you have seen treats like this on the web over the most recent couple of years without a doubt. For the most part, those are speedy and straightforward plans for which you need only a couple basic locally acquired fixings (frozen pie hull and canned fruit dessert filling).
Since our apple tree in the nursery did very well this year, it would be insane of me to purchase filling when I can make natively constructed filling from these new apples. Obviously, in the event that you have hand crafted filling, you should have natively constructed hull. Alright, we should not mess with ourselves, on the off chance that you think I made caramel sauce myself, all things considered, not this time. How at any point a lot cooking is a good time for me, I would truly prefer not to invest all my free energy in the kitchen.
In the event that you like the possibility of these small fruit desserts, and you don’t actually have a lot of time, be allowed to utilize the alternate routes and take refrigerated Pie Crust and a jar of Apple Pie Filling. In no time flat, you will make indistinguishably delicious Apple Pie Cookies. In case you’re not ravenous for treats you or apple based preparing you could generally heat something else, similar to a sorcery cake or the an extraordinary tasting peanut butter cheesecake.
Albeit the late spring is passing by gradually, the possibility of pre-winter treats, the smell of cinnamon and other sweet-smelling flavors which spread through the house while the cake with apple or pumpkin is heating in the broiler is ameliorating. These Apple Pie Cookies with gooey caramel stacked with the cinnamon flavor are the genuine solace nourishment for cold and stormy harvest time days which are coming.
In the event that you possess the energy for heating, you blend the outside, strip the apple and make the filling. However, likewise on the off chance that you are in a rush, it doesn’t imply that you can’t treat yourself with warm, delicious small scale pies on the grounds that the locally acquired fixings truly make the work simpler. Coat one outside with caramel, spread the fruit dessert filling, cut the subsequent pie hull into strips and cover the filling, cut the treats, sprinkle it with cinnamon-sugar and your scaled down pies are prepared for the broiler. After thirty minutes, you can present yourself with some milk and make the most of your home made Apple Pie Cookies.
Apple Pie Cookies – sticky and chewy, bite-sized caramel apple pies. Sometimes the regular old apple pie recipe is just too much dessert to handle. These gooey bites bring you the best of both worlds: the fruity-caramel flavor of traditional pie, with all of the convenience of a simple cookie recipe! (No fork required!!!)
Ingredients
For Apple Pie Filling :
- 3 apples (about 1 lbs.)-peeled and sliced into 8 slices each
- 1–2 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoon white sugar
- 3 tablespoon brown sugar
- 3 tablespoon corn starch
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- A dash of nutmeg
- 3/4 cup water
For Pie Crust :
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter cut into cubes-chilled
- 2 and 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 cup ice water
(or you can use 1 package Refrigerated Pie Crust (2 crusts))
Filling and Topping:
- 1 and 3/4 cups apple pie filling-chopped into small pieces
- 1 cup caramel sauce
- 1 egg -lightly beaten
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 cup sugar.
Instructions
To make Apple Pie Filling:
- Toss sliced apples with lemon juice and set aside.
- In a saucepan or a pot combine cornstarch, sugar, browned sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and water. Stir well and bring to a boil over medium-high heat whisking constantly. Let it boil 2 minutes until thick, then stir in apple slices.
- Reduce heat to low, cover the pot and let it simmer about 10 minutes. Apples should be soft but not mushy (cooking time depend on sort of apples). Remove apples from heat and leave them covered to soften and cooled.
- When it’s cooled take out the apples from the sauce and chop into small pieces, set aside.
To make Pie Crust:
- In a large mixing bowl place flour, salt and sugar and mix to combine.
- Using a pastry blender incorporate chilled butter cubes into the flour mixture(the mixture should resemble coarse meal)
- Drizzle 2 tablespoons ice water over the mixture and blend, repeat with another 2 tablespoons water. When you squeeze the dough it should holds together (you may have to add more water if the dough crumbles, add 1 tablespoon at a time)
- Divide the dough into two equal pieces, flatten and form two disc, pack each disc with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Lightly dust working surface with flour, place chilled dough, dust the dough and the rolling pin, too. Turn the dough as you rolling to prevent it from sticking. Roll it out 1/8-inch thick.
- Repeat the process with the other disc.
Assembling the Apple Pie Cookies:
- Preheat the oven to 350 F, line cookie sheet with parchment paper, spray with non-stick spray and set aside.
- Spread the caramel sauce onto one pie crust.
- Spread chopped apple pie filling over caramel and gently tap the filling with your palms.
- Cut second pie crust into 1/2 inch strips and create a lattice top over the filling.
- Using round cookie cutter (about 2.5 inch) cut out the cookies and place them onto baking sheet.
- Beat the egg with a fork and brush the top of cookies.
- Combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle the cookies generously.
- Bake 20-30 minutes (until golden brown).
