Glazed apple cookies
Glazed apple cookies recipe in the christmas category
Recipe ingredients:
- Cookies:
- 2 cups sifted unbleached flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 1/3 cups brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 egg, unbeaten
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup finely chopped unpared tart apples
- 1 cup raisins, chopped, optional
- 1/4 cup apple juice or milk
- Vanilla glaze:
- 1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, softened
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 tablespoons light cream
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Sift together flour and baking soda.
- Mix shortening, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and egg until well blended.
- Stir in half of flour mixture.
- Add nuts, apples and raisins.
- Blend in apple juice, then remaining flour mixture.
- Drop by tablespoons, 2 inches apart, onto greased cookie sheets.
- Bake approximately 12 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make vanilla glaze.
- Mix together all ingredients until well blended.
- Spread thinly over hot cookies.
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