Spiced Apple Pie Cookie Recipe

Spiced Apple Pie Cookies made with a rich, homemade apple filling that includes butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar, all wrapped in a flaky pie crust!

Prep Time30

Cook Time15

Total Time45

Course: Cookies, Cookies, Dessert, mini pie

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Spiced Apple Pie Cookies

Servings: cookies

Calories: 153kcal

Author: Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

14 oz refrigerated pie dough 2 crusts
4 TBSP butter
3 medium apples peeled and finely diced into ¼" pieces
⅓ cup brown sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
2 TBSP cornstarch
2 tsp cinnamon divided
⅛ tsp nutmeg
1 large egg
1 TBSP water
3 TBSP granulated sugar

Instructions

Prep: Core, peel, and dice the apples into small chunks. Preheat the oven to 350℉ and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Apples: Melt the butter in a medium sized skillet on the stove and add in the diced apples. Cook the apples until soft, for about 8 minutes. Add in the brown sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and the nutmeg. Stir until the mixture thickens, then remove from the heat and let it cool.
Assemble: Roll out one pie crust and use a 2 ½ inch round cookie cutter to cut out as many circles as you can. Reroll the pie crust and cut more if you’re able to. Then place 2-3 tsp of the apple pie filling into each of the circles.
Roll out the other pie crust and cut it into ¼ inch thick strips.
You can do one of two methods for topping the apple pie cookies with a lattice pie crust. You can either weave the lattice into a rectangle and then cut out rounds with the same 2 ½" cookie cutter.
Or you can lay the strips of pie crust on top of the cookies in any sort of weave you'd like! Then gently press down on the edges of the strips to help them stick to the bottom pie crust piece. Once all the strips have been weaved in, or placed on, it should look like a flat, unbaked mini apple pies.
Place the unbaked pies on your baking sheet and then make an egg wash. Whisk the egg and water together, then brush over the top of each mini apple pie cookie. After that combine the granulated sugar and the rest of the cinnamon in a bowl and sprinkle over the cookies.
Bake: Place the cookies in the preheated oven and bake for about 15-20 minutes, or until they start to turn golden, remove them from the oven and let them cool. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Store apple pie cookies in an airtight container at room temperature, or in the fridge, and they will last up to 3-4 days.

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