I came across this recipe on food-pusher.blogspot.com and it was absolutely amazing. This delicious bite-size rendition of one of my favorite childhood deserts has become one of my ultimate fave fall treats.
Dutch Apple Pie Cookies
Ingredients
Crust (You can also
use store-bought refrigerated pie crust):
- 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoon Crisco (vegetable shortening)
- 3 tablespoon ice cold water
- flour for dusting
Topping:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ¾ cup oatmeal (quick or old-fashioned)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup butter, cut into chunks
- 1 1/2 cups canned apple pie filling* chopped
- powdered sugar for garnish (optional) i used a little brown sugar instead because I'm obsessed with it lol
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375°F.
2. Prepare pie crust: In a
medium bowl, mix flour and salt. Cut 4 T butter into flour until it looks like
coarse meal, and then cut in Crisco until well blended. Add ice cold water and
stir with fork. Then use your hands to gently work the dough into a ball.
3. Flour a square sheet of
wax paper, place dough ball in the middle, flour the ball, and cover with
another square sheet of wax paper. Roll dough out to a thickness of about 1/8”.
Using a 2” round circle cutter, cut out as many circles as you can. Carefully
place circles on a wax-paper-lined cookie sheet and place in the freezer until
needed. Collect dough scraps and roll and cut more circles that you will add to
the pan in the freezer.
4. Prepare topping: In a
large bowl, mix all of the dry topping ingredients with a fork. Add butter
chunks and mix with your fingers until all the butter is incorporated and it
begins to form crumbles. Set aside ½ cup of this crumb mixture.
5. Stir chopped apple pie
filling into remaining crumble mixture, just until mixed.
6. On a parchment-lined
baking sheet, evenly place 12 of the frozen dough circles. Place a scant
tablespoon of apple mixture onto the middle of each circle. With your finger,
flatten the top of the apple mixture a little bit. Using a fork, place about ½
teaspoon of the reserved crumble mixture on top of each cookie.
7. Bake at 375°F for 14-15
minutes, or until bottoms are lightly browned. Remove from oven and then
transfer cookies to a cooling rack to cool completely. Shake a little powdered
sugar over cookies to make them look pretty.
*she also has a recipe for homemade apple filling on her blog. I was too lazy to try it out so I just stuck to using the canned filling*
