Healthy Apple Pie Oatmeal Cookies
These oatmeal cookies are studded with soft baked apple pieces. They taste like apple pie oatmeal in cookie form. The cookies don't contain any butter, flour, eggs or refined sugar.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 3 tbsp unsweetened natural creamy almond butter
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1/2 cup finely diced apples (see notes), about 1/4 inch cubes
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a large baking sheet with silicone baking mat or parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add applesauce, syrup, almond butter and cinnamon. Stir until completely blended and everything is evenly mixed.
- Stir in oats until all oats are evenly coated. Stir in apples until evenly mixed.
- Using a 1.5 tbsp cookie scoop, scoop cookie dough and apply some pressure to pack it into the scoop (this is to help compact the mixture). Release scoop onto prepared baking sheet, spacing cookies 2 inches apart.
- Using the palm of your hand, press down on cookie balls so that they become thick disks. The cookies will not spread when baking so you want to shape the dough to be what you want the final outcome of the cookies to look like.
- Bake cookies for about 12-14 minutes or until oats are cooked. Remove cookies from oven and let them set and cool completely before removing them from the cookie sheet.
Notes
- If you have questions regarding a certain ingredient, I explain more about each ingredient and possible substitutions in the body of the post
- Make sure to choose a sweet variety of apple like fuji, honeycrisp or pink lady.
- These cookies are a little more delicate than my other healthy oatmeal cookies because of the juices released from the fresh apples during baking. Make sure to really compact the cookie dough ball before baking to help the cookies hold together. You can also use dried apples instead of fresh apples but I find using fresh apples provides more of an apple pie flavor.
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 66kcal, Carbohydrates: 10g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 3g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 1mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 4g, NET CARBS: 9
The nutrition information provided are only estimates based on an online nutritional calculator. This is not a comprehensive list of all the nutrients in the recipe (i.e., does not include vitamins, cholesterol, etc). I am not a certified nutritionist. Please consult a nutritionist or doctor for accurate information and any dietary restrictions and concerns you may have.
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