Apple and Oatmeal Cookies
When I was younger, my parents always used to put an apple in my school lunch, like e.v.e.r.y.d.a.y. They were always a Granny Smith apples too. My Mum only ever bought Granny Smith apples. I never knew why. Maybe it has something to do with another type of apple being called a ‘Pink Lady’ and that sounded something like a strippers name in a gentlemen’s club, and thought than since grannies are all sweet and innocent that we should eat Granny Smith apples to eat our way to innocence or something?
When I was about 7, I remember being at school at lunchtime happily tucking into my sweet Granny Smith apple. I even remember enjoying it too. That was until I had the apple in my mouth and through my cross-eyed looking at apple whilst its in my mouth I see this huge ass wasp that’s landed on my apple, the apple that’s in my mouth. Now, what would any normal 7 year old do, throw that apple as far away as possible but moi… no, I wanted that darn apple and no flying spawn of satan is going to stop me so I stand there shaking the apple like a windmill!
The moral of the story is, you don’t mess with wasps and no, I didn’t get to keep that apple!
So, naturally when I came across this recipe that calls for apples I knew I wanted to use some good old Granny Smith apples. I knew that these apple and oatmeal cookies would be delicious, lightly spiced with cinnamon which gives them that winter kick. The oatmeal gives them a slightly chewy texture but overall they’re moist yet quite light and not too sweet.
Apple and Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 15-20 mins
Yield: 10-12 cookies
Ingredients:
- 135g (5oz) unsalted butter, softened
- 80g (3oz) granulated sugar
- 80g (30z) light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 190g (7oz) plain (all-purpose) flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 2 Granny Smith apples
- 60g (2oz) rolled oats
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 170℃/325℉/Gas Mark 3, and line two baking trays with baking parchment.
- Cream together the butter with both types of sugar. Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix thoroughly on a medium speed. Sift together the flour, salt, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), then add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture in two batches and mix thoroughly, in the mixer or by hand, until a dough forms.
- Peel and finely grate the apples and squeeze all the liquid out of them, discarding the liquid (see tips below). Add the oats and 60g (2oz) of the grated apple to the dough mixture and stir in by hand.
- Break off pieces of dough (about tablespoons in size), roll into balls and place on the prepared baking sheet, making sure to space them apart by 7-8cm (about 3in) as these cookies spread. (See tips.)
- *Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the cookies are a light golden brown. Leave on the sheets for about 10 minutes to cool and set, then move to a wire rack.
Notes:
- I found it easiest to remove the liquid by placing the grated apples in a metal sieve above a bowl and repeatedly squeezing the apple down and around until no more liquid drips. No need to discard the apple juice… chef perks with a delicious fresh apple juice. If you refrigerate the apples first, then your apple juice will be cold too!
- Instead of breaking off pieces of the dough and rolling, use a cookie scoop that’s approx. 2 tbsp and use the scoop to dollop perfectly rounded cookie balls onto the baking tray. So much easier and all perfect in size and height too.
- * If you prefer a softer cookie, remove them from the oven as soon as they become golden.
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The cookies look perfect for dunking! Love your little milk jugs
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Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Apple and Oatmeal Cookies
Granny smiths are the only ones I bake with! LOVE these cookies.
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Glad you like them, Dorothy.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Apple and Oatmeal Cookies
Ohhhh my god. This made me laugh out loud! Damn wasps messing up your apple-eating experience. Wasps are nasty, too! And I totally laughed at the Pink Lady comment. “And now to the stage, please welcome PINK LADY!!” Haha, too funny. I love these cookies! They’re happily free of both wasps and strippers
Hayley @ The Domestic Rebel recently posted…Gingerbread 7-Layer Bars
I know, right? Who knew that apples could be related to strippers.. until now.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Apple and Oatmeal Cookies
I would love these in my lunch box any day
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You are so funny – I love your stories and this recipe sounds wonderful – I LOVE everything about it. I will and I mean soon, be eating these cookies!!
Glad you like them Kim. Let me know when you make them. I’d love to see how they turn out.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
I literally just laughed out loud at that wasp story, which makes me feel bad since I am sure it did not end well for your 7 year old self. But I can’t help smile at the thought of you fighting it out with a terrifying wasp all for one slice of apple.
Though I can’t say I love apples on their own, I DO love them in baking, and these sound like delicious cookies that I would fight a bee (not a wasp, but still) for any day.
Jess @ OnSugarMountain recently posted…White Cheddar Gougeres
I didn’t get stung (thankfully) but the damn wasp chased me everywhere! I managed to last approx. 28 yrs of my life without being stung until a couple of years ago and by a wasp. And damn right I’d fight a wasp for apple cookies any day of my life… that is while being terrified too!
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
Oh yum, oatmeal and apple is such a divine combination. I love it!
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Thanks so much, Cathleen. I love the combo of the cinnamon, apples, and oats myself too. Different yet divine.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
i want these for lunch today. actually, i want these for lunch any day. such a better and more exciting way to eat my granny smiths!!
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Thankfully my kiddos love fruit but this would be a great way to get them to eat fruit if they wouldn’t. Just stuff it in a cookie and presto. Thanks Sally.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
These look and sound delicious Lisa, I love apple and cinnamon so much! Cookies with oats in are so good – definitely a health food! Added to my ‘to make’ list
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Aww thanks so much, Joy. I love the chewy goodness that oats add to a cookie and the apple flavour is subtle and light and mixed in with the spices too is fantastic.
Lisa {Sweet 2 Eat Baking} recently posted…Dark and White Chocolate Mousse Parfait
The cookies look so yummy! I just so happen to have three Granny Smith apples in my fruit basket that I need to eat! I will be trying these cookies tomorrow!! Thanks!
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I love chewy cookies and these are a keeper. I have to try these. Pinned. Thank you for sharing,
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