Here they are the ever-popular Applesauce cookies! Something about baking with apples evokes that down-home, cozy comfort food feeling. So, if you are nostalgic for a childhood memory or want to make a new one, you will enjoy these soft and moist apple applesauce cookies.
If you enjoy this recipe, you’ll find even more small batch cookies perfect for one or two. Don’t miss these old-fashioned cookies; ginger creams and french short bread cookies.
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I love cooking with applesauce; it’s a great natural sweetener and perfect for easy cookie recipes.
Small-batch cookies are easy to make and taste much better than store-bought. And you won’t have an abundance of cookies tempting you!
The recipe card below lists the ingredient quantities and step-by-step easy instructions for these wonderful old-fashioned applesauce cookies.
Helpful How-To’s
- You can easily double the recipe if you prefer a larger batch of cookies.
- No mixer is needed; you only need a wooden spoon, measuring cup, and bowl.
- Use a cookie scoop to bake uniform-size cookies that will bake evenly.
- This recipe uses 1/4 cup of shortening. However, you can use a 50/50 of unsalted butter and shortening.
- Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on the cooled cookies for a pretty presentation.
Other tasty cookies from a bygone era are my Bisquick Chocolate Chip Cookies and Chocolate Snickerdoodles.
Applesauce Cookies
Ingredients
Recipe Directions
- Mix the shortening, sugar, and egg until well combined and smooth.
- Stir in the applesauce and coffee, mix to blend.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cloves,and cinnamon. mix well.
- Fold in the raisins.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 400° Fahrenheit.
- Use a small cookie scoop to drop dough onto the parchment lined baking sheet.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cool for a couple minutes before transferring to a cooling rack
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