Apple Recipes - Apple Pie Pockets and Apple Filled Oatmeal Cookies

The apple is so universal to baking that Apple Pie is known as an All-American standard. For convenience and your own individual apple pies, try this recipe for Apple Pie Pockets. These little gems are perfect for lunchboxes and picnics as well as for a grab and go treat. The Apple Filled Oatmeal Cookies offer a fresh take on another familiar American icon--the oatmeal cookie.

APPLE PIE POCKETS

Butter Cookie Recipe

1 pkg refrigerator pie crust
3 apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
1/3 cup sugar
2 tbsps flour
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp butter
milk
1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp cinnamon combined in a small bowl

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cut each circle of pie crust into four wedges. Mix together the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Toss apple slices with the mixture in a medium sized bowl. Place 6 to 8 mixture-coated apple slices on half of the pie crust wedges. Dot with a bit of butter and fold pie crust over top of apples. Seal around the open side edges with a fork dipped in milk. Slit top with a knife in a few places to make air holes. Bush with a little milk and sprinkle with the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Repeat the process with the remaining wedges. Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet until golden brown or about 15 to 18 minutes. Great served warm with ice cream.

Yield 8

APPLE FILLED OATMEAL COOKIES

This recipe is from an old community cookbook.

1 cup finely chopped apples
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsps water
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 tsps baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
2 cups oatmeal

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a saucepan, combine apples, raisins, pecans, granulated sugar, and water. Cook and stir this mixture until thick and apples are tender, about 10 minutes. Set aside.

Cream the brown sugar with the butter then beat in the eggs. Sift together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and cloves. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the creamed mixture. Stir in the oatmeal. Set aside 3/4 cup of the dough. Drop by teaspoon onto cookie sheets. Make a small depression in each cookie and add a small amount of the apple mixture to the depressed spot. Top apple mixture with a small amount of the reserved dough. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 375 degrees until cookies are lightly browned.

Enjoy!

Apple Recipes - Apple Pie Pockets and Apple Filled Oatmeal Cookies

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