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It’s September! To me, September means back-to-school and APPLES, lots of apples! I don’t know if kids still bring their teachers a shiny apple on the first day of school, but I assume that tradition started because of the availability of ripe apples in September.
I love to go to the Farmers’ Markets and buy boxes of them. Red, green, yellow and mixed, apples come in all colors, and they are perhaps the most versatile fruit. You can add them to just about anything: muffins, bread, pancakes, and cookies!
These Caramel Apple cookies are perfect for our September Cookie-of-the-Month!
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I LOVE the combination of caramel and apple. This cookie has grated apples and apple juice in it, plus a brown sugar caramel. I could eat these all day!
Note: Does your family fight over how to pronounce caramel? Mine does. We’ve always said “car-mel”. My son-in-law swears it is “care-A-mel”. Many arguments have ensued. However you pronounce it, give this recipe a try and see if it doesn’t shout “September” and “yummy” to you too!
CARAMEL APPLE COOKIES
PC: Ann Kirsten
Cookies
½ cup soft butter
1 ¼ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
1 egg
½ cup apple juice
2 ½ cups flour
1 large green apple
Frosting
½ cup packed brown sugar
3 Tablespoons butter
3 Tablespoons apple juice
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
½ cup chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Beat softened butter until smooth. Add the brown sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and beat on medium until well blended. Add the egg and apple juice. Stir in the flour.
Peel and core the apple and grate it on the large holes of a grater. Stir into the dough.
Drop the heaping spoonfuls of dough onto your prepared cookie sheets and bake for 8-10 minutes. The cookies will be a very light brown and look undone in the center. Don’t worry.
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Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheets for 3-4 minutes and then use a metal spatula to remove them from the pan to a cooling rack. Let them cool completely.
After they cool, stir the frosting butter, brown sugar and apple juice over medium heat in a saucepan. Let the sugar and butter melt and then remove from the heat. Whisk in 1 ½ cups powdered sugar.
Immediately put a spoonful of frosting on each cookie and sprinkle with nuts. I frosted 4 cookies and then added the nuts (that way the nuts will stick before the frosting sets up)
Enjoy these on a crisp, Fall day with apple slices and a cold glass of milk. Thank you, God, for apples!
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” Proverbs 25:11
(The right word at the right time has power to heal and strengthen, to guide and rescue. It is like an apple made of gold and set on a silver platter.)
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