A scratch-made cookie filled with fresh apple chunks and topped with brown sugar cinnamon streusel, drizzle with maple glaze. All the flavors of apple crisp in a chewy cookie!
1medium apple finely choppedabout 1 3/4 cups of apple
Streusel
1/4cupbutter cold
1/4cupbrown sugar
1/4cupgranulated sugar
1/2tspcinnamon
1/4cupflour
1/3cuplarge oats
Glaze
1/2cuppowdered icing sugar
2-3tbspmaple syrup
Instructions
In the bowl of a stand mixer (or you can use a handheld), cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Add the flour, salt, and baking soda and beat just until combined.
Dry chopped apples on a paper towel to remove excess moisture. Add apples and mix until just combined.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour (I find the juices from the apples makes the dough a bit stickier than normal — the chilling helps with this).
Streusel
While your cookie dough is chilling, make the streusel. Combine butter, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, flour and oats with a pastry cutter (or your fingers!) until crumbly. Set aside until needed.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
Roll cookie dough into 1″ balls and dip in streusel, pressing the streusel into the top of the cookie with your fingers if needed (you only want the streusel on the top half).
Place on a baking sheet 2″ apart and bake for 8-9 minutes, until edges are just golden and centers are just set (if you overbake, they will puff up and be dry). Cookies will be slightly puffed but will sink down as they cool.
Glaze
Combine powdered icing sugar and enough maple syrup to make a smooth glaze. Drizzle over cookies and allow to cool until set (the glaze will firm up nicely so the cookies can be stacked).