You can make so much more than just pies with apples. And right now, we’re in love with homemade apple pie cookies – especially since they’re so easy to make! Just make a traditional pie dough base and choose some excellent quality apples. Beyond that, we’ve got four more great ideas for making apple pie cookies – perfect for breakfast or snacks for the whole family. You get to decide which apples you want to use. Though we recommend Golden Delicious apples, since they’re ideal for desserts.
Homemade apple pie cookies
To make apple heart cookies, all you need to do is make a simple shortcrust pastry. Once the dough is ready, let it cool in the refrigerator covered in plastic wrap for an hour. Then roll it out with a rolling pin and cut out disc shapes using stencils or a small glass. Fill half of the pastry discs with apples (cut into small pieces and cooked in a pan with a little water), the grated rind of one lemon and 2 heaping tablespoons of sugar (for 500 grams of apples). Add lots of cinnamon to the filling if you like the spice. Top with the remaining pastry discs and seal the edges with your fingers. Bake at 180°C for about 15 minutes.
Vegan apple pie cookies
These apple pie cookies don’t contain any eggs, milk or butter! The filling is the same as the above recipe, while the shortcrust pastry dough is made by mixing 250 g whole-wheat flour, 8 g cream of tartar, 110 g finely chopped cane sugar, 80 g corn oil and 60 g vegetable milk.
You can also add walnuts or hazelnuts to the filling to make these cookies a little more rustic and tasty.
Puff pastry apple pie cookies
If you don’t want to make a shortcrust pastry dough from scratch, use packaged puff pastry dough for delicious crumbly cookies that are great for breakfast. For an equally fast, but more rustic version, try brisè pastry dough.
Mini apple pie swirls
This version of apple pie cookies are made like the first recipe (i.e. with shortcrust pastry and pan-cooked apples), but they’re assembled a little differently. The pastry dough is first rolled out to form a rectangle and filled with the cooked apples lightly blended like a purée. Then you roll up the dough into a spiral and leave it to cool in the refrigerator for an hour wrapped in plastic wrap. Once chilled, cut it into fairly thick slices and bake in the oven at 355°F (180°C) for 15 minutes. If desired, you can also add raisins and pine nuts to the filling.
Rustic apple pie cookies
In this recipe, the apples are not the filling, but they’re worked directly into the dough instead.
Mix 250 g flour with 100 g melted butter and 100 g sugar. Then add one egg, the juice of 1/2 lemon, cinnamon (optional), 1 teaspoon of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Complete with one diced apple. Transfer the dough to the fridge to cool for a few hours. Then form some balls from the dough with your hands and bake them, spaced apart on a baking sheet, for about 20 minutes at 355°F (180°C).