APPLE CINNAMON OATMEAL COOKIES

PUBLISHED BY NELLIE from familycookierecipes.com

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies made with a cake mix, fresh apples, applesauce and a few other basic ingredients. Delicious cake mix cookie recipe that tastes like apple pie!

We love cookies made with a cake mix because they are just so easy to make! They are so versatile because you can change out the flavor of cake mix and come up with all kinds of different cookies. Just add a couple of ingredients and your cookie dough is ready to bake in just a few minutes.

APPLE CINNAMON OATMEAL COOKIES
Add oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, applesauce, diced apple and an egg to a yellow cake mix to make these delicious cookies. You can leave the apples out if you’d like, but they add the most delicious flavors and texture. You can add some raisins if you’d like, or even some butterscotch chips for some extra flavor. Cake mix cookies are so easy to change up a little bit!

ARE APPLE CINNAMON OATMEAL COOKIES HEALTHY?

These cookies are sweet enough to be delicious, but are a little healthier than most cookies. All of the liquid comes from the egg and the applesauce, so you don’t need to add any butter or oil. And the greatest part is that you can’t even tell! The cookies also have fresh apples and oats…so I feel totally justified in counting these cookies as a balanced breakfast option.

INGREDIENTS IN APPLE CINNAMON OATMEAL COOKIES:

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Yellow cake mix – A box of yellow cake mix (about 16-18 oz) is the base ingredient of the cookies. You can use a white cake mix or a spice cake mix if you don’t have a yellow one on hand.

Oats – Quick oats work best in these cookies, but if you like a chewier cookie, you can use old-fashioned oats instead.

Brown sugar – A little bit of brown sugar adds the perfect amount of sweetness and flavor to the cookies. The brown sugar pairs so well with the apples. For best results, make sure the brown sugar is fresh and soft.

Cinnamon – Two teaspoons of ground cinnamon really add a lot of flavor and cinnamon is just one of those things that you have to have when you are using apples in a recipe.

Egg – One large egg will help to bind everything together.

Applesauce – You will need 3/4 cup of applesauce to provide most of the moisture in the cookies. I usually use unsweetened applesauce since there is enough sweetness in the other ingredients, but you can use sweetened applesauce if you prefer. Either will work great!

Apple – You will need one large apple so that you can add about 1 cup of diced apples to the cookies. Make sure to peel the apple first.