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Chewy Oatmeal cookies, with white chocolate chips, walnuts and chunks of dried apple rings added in for a fall twist! | Healthy Seasonal Recipes | Katie Webster

Apple Walnut Oatmeal Cookies


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5 from 8 reviews

  • Author: Katie Webster
  • Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
  • Yield: 4 dozen 1x

Description

Chewy Oatmeal cookies, with white chocolate chips, walnuts and chunks of dried apple rings added in for a fall twist!


Ingredients

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  • 2 cups roasted unsalted walnuts, divided
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour, preferably white whole-wheat
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened (1 stick)
  • 1 1/2 cup granulated maple sugar (or 3/4 cup brown sugar plus 3/4 cup white)
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup applesauce
  • 2 cups old fashioned oats
  • 1 cup white chocolate chips
  • 1 cup chopped dried apple rings

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat two large baking sheets with cooking spray.
  2. Grind 1 ¼ cups (3.75 ounces) walnuts in food processor fitted with steel blade attachment until it looks like coarse meal. Add white whole wheat, all-purpose flour, cinnamon, baking soda and salt and process 10 seconds.
  3. Chop the remaining ¾ cup walnuts.
  4. Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl on medium speed until creamy. Add egg and beat until combined. Add applesauce and beat until completely combined, it is okay if the mixture looks broken.
  5. Beat the flour and walnut mixture into the butter mixture on low. Add oats, the remaining ¾ cup chopped walnuts, white chocolate chips and dried apple and stir by hand with a silicone spatula until completely combined.
  6. Drop by heaping tablespoons onto one of the prepared baking sheet, leaving 1 ½ inches between each cookie. Moisten finger-tips and press the dough down slightly. Bake in batches, 1 sheet at a time until the cookies spread and set, 8 to 10 minutes. For a crisper cookie bake up to 12 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet 3 to 5 minutes before carefully transferring to a cooling rack with a thin metal spatula.

Notes

Baking Tip:

I like these cookies on the under-baked side. I recommend only 8 minutes. They will seem like they aren’t quite done, but let them sit, and they’ll shrink down into their craggy goodness, and set nicely. Try it! My cross-tester baked them until they were more visibly set- at 12 minutes, and she liked them really well. So it’s more of a preference thing.

  • Prep Time: 45 minutes
  • Cook Time: 50 minutes
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 cookie
  • Calories: 130
  • Sugar: 10 g
  • Sodium: 56 g
  • Fat: 4 g
  • Saturated Fat: 3 g
  • Trans Fat: 0 g
  • Carbohydrates: 16 g
  • Fiber: 2 g
  • Protein: 2 g
  • Cholesterol: 9 g
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