Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, soft and packed with flavor. Delicious applesauce cookies that are simple to make and are absolutely delicious too!

Have you ever made cookies with applesauce? Applesauce makes cookies so moist and really changes the consistency to make cookies that are very different from your typical chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Don’t get me wrong – the applesauce doesn’t make these cookies super healthy, but I absolutely love the way they taste! And I have to admit that something in me just feels more justified eating multiple cookies when I know they are packed with applesauce and oatmeal!

Ingredients in Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 cups applesauce

2 tsp baking soda

2 cups sugar

1 cup shortening

2 eggs

4 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp nutmeg

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

2 cups quick oats

1 (12 oz) pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips

How to make Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Preheat oven to 375°.

In a medium bowl, combine the applesauce and baking soda. Mix with a spoon and set aside.

Cream sugar, shortening and eggs. Beat with an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes. Add applesauce mixture and mix until well combined.

In a separate bowl, mix together 1 cup of flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt and then add to the sugar/shortening mixture. Mix together until well combined.

Add oats and mix. Add the remaining flour and mix just until combined.

Stir in the chocolate chips. Scoop the cookie dough with a cookie scoop onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies just barely begin to turn a light golden brown.

Let the cookies cool on baking sheet for a few minutes and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

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Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, soft and packed with flavor. Delicious applesauce cookies that are simple to make and are absolutely delicious too!

Course Cookies

Cuisine American

Keyword applesauce oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 60 cookies

Author Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

• 2 cups applesauce
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup shortening
• 2 eggs
• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 2 tsp nutmeg
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 cups quick oats
• 1 12 oz pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375°.
• In a medium bowl, combine the applesauce and baking soda. Mix with a spoon and set aside.
• Cream sugar, shortening and eggs. Beat with an electric mixer for 2-3 minutes. Add applesauce mixture and mix until well combined. 
• In a separate bowl, mix together 1 cup of flour, nutmeg, cinnamon and salt and then add to the sugar/shortening mixture. Mix together until well combined.
• Add oats and mix. Add the remaining flour and mix just until combined.
• Stir in the chocolate chips. Scoop the cookie dough with a cookie scoop onto prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes or until the edges of the cookies just barely begin to turn a light golden brown.
• Let the cookies cool on baking sheet for a few minutes and then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.

HOW DO YOU MAKE PERFECT CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES?

Making chocolate chip cookies is easy! Here are a few tips to getting perfect cookies every time!

• Most cookie recipes require that you mix the dry ingredients separately before adding the wet ingredients. This is an important step!
• Spend a little extra time when you mix the shortening and sugar. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
• Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
• Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
• Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
• Don’t over bake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly under baked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!

LOVE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES? SO DO WE! HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPES!

• Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
• Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
• Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies
• Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Applesauce Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are moist, soft and packed with flavor. Delicious applesauce cookies that are simple to make and are absolutely delicious too!

This little one got to frost sugar cookies for the first time. Let’s just say that I think the “prinkles” were her favorite part of the whole thing and I was actually impressed at how many of them stuck to the cookie instead of being sprinkled all over the floor! She loved getting to do what the big kids were doing, and of course, she loved eating the finished product too!

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