Apple cookies as a homemade type of baked goods are present in different cuisines around the world. Many nations favor interesting combinations of apples with dough, creating unique baked goods for the whole family.
For example, there is a recipe for apple cookies on oatmeal dough. To make the cookies sweeter, for oatmeal dough, apples are caramelized in advance. This gives the baked goods a special flavor and aroma.
In Sweden, apple cookies are made with the addition of almond paste. This paste gives the cookies a spicy sweet flavor with notes of marzipan. The texture of Swedish cookies is a bit thick. They are great with coffee and various coffee drinks. These cookies are baked mainly in the fall.
There are also cookies with apples and Cheddar cheese. It’s made in the United States. Salty cheese and sweet apples together with dough is an unusual, but very popular combination in America. The taste is reminiscent of an apple American pie.
Let’s prepare a simpler, but no less tasty cookies with apples
Ingredients:
- Flour – 400 g;
- Eggs – 3 pcs;
- Sugar – 100 g;
- Butter – 100 g;
- Salt – a pinch;
- Leavening agent – 1 tsp;
- Apples – 2 pcs;
- Lemon zest;
- Lemon juice – 3 tbsp;
- Raisins – 30 g.
Preparation of apple cookies:
Mix the eggs with salt, sugar and lemon zest. Beat the egg mixture for 3 minutes, and then pour in the melted butter.
Mix the eggs with butter, sift some flour and baking powder into the mixture. Knead a thick, homogeneous dough, gradually sift in the rest of the flour.
Peel the apples, remove the seed pods and cut into small cubes
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Put the apples into the dough, add the raisins and lemon juice, mix.
Sprinkle the table with flour, place the dough and knead
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The dough should remain very sticky. Form the dough into a roll, divide it into pieces of 50-60 grams.
Sprinkle the cookies with flour, form the
rolls
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Place each roll at a distance from each other on a baking tray lined with parchment.
Knead each block slightly, dip the tops in sugar if desired.
Bake the cookies at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Ready cookies are delicious both cold and hot. This is a good way to replace store-bought cookies with homemade ones.
