Caramel apple oatmeal cookies have bits of caramel and fresh apple sprinkled throughout a soft oatmeal cookie dough.
Course: Dessert
Keyword: apple, cookies, oatmeal, salted caramel
Ingredients
1cupbuttersoftened
1/2cupsugar
1cupbrown sugar
2eggs
2teaspoonsvanilla
2cupsflour
1teaspoonbaking powder
1teaspoonbaking soda
3/4teaspoonsalt
3cupsold-fashioned or quick oats
11ouncescaramel bits
2small Gala applespeeled, cored and diced
Instructions
(You're going to refrigerate your dough, so no need to preheat your oven yet.)
Beat the butter and sugars until fluffy, then beat in the eggs and vanilla.
Mix in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and oats until everything is well combined.
Stir in the caramel bits and diced apples.
Refrigerate your dough for about three hours or overnight. (I sped this up by putting mine in the freezer for an hour instead.)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper.
Scoop the dough in about two-tablespoon-size scoops and place them about two inches apart on the baking sheet. Bake for about 15 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown.
Refrigerate the rest of the dough while the first batch bakes.
Let the cookies cool before placing them in a container. If they're too warm, the caramel bits will want to melt out of the bottom of the cookies.
Using two baking sheets will let you keep going with the rest of the dough while each batch cools.