Simple Cinnamon Cookies
By: Liora
These cookies are kinda cake-like and chewy, they’re not quite brown, but they’re not too light.
These cinnamon cookies ended up being SO delicious! I invented the recipe myself, it was only a ten minute prep time, and a ten minute bake time, that’s only twenty minutes! The recipe made about twenty-four cookies.
When I was getting the ingredients ready, I realized I didn’t have enough butter! We only had 2 tablespoons of butter left! And we needed 1\2 cup! { 1 stick } So I looked up what was a substitute for butter, and guess what! Applesauce was able to be used as a substitute! You could kinda taste the apple in the end, but it was REALLY good! It kinda tasted like cinnamon apple cookies!
I was REALLY happy with how they turned out, they are SO good, I hope you will try this recipe, I’m sure you will be happy with what you turn up with too!
My family LOVES these cookies! As a bonus, when you take the cookies out of the oven, they make a sweet cinnamon smell travel through the house, you can really tell that someone baked cookies!
Cinnamon Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon
- 4 tbsp butter
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup crushed pecans (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare a baking sheet by layering it with parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet.
- In a large mixing bowl mix… flour, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon, mix thoroughly. Set aside.
- Warm up butter for 30 second to a minute (unless the butter is already softened). Add butter to a medium mixing bowl. Add brown sugar, and applesauce to butter and mix thoroughly.
- Add eggs and vanilla extract, mix thoroughly.
- Add the wet ingredient mixture to the dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly.
- OPTIONAL: Add pecans and gently mix.
- On prepared baking sheet, scoop 1 tablespoon spoonfuls with about a 2 inch separation between each scoop.
- Cook for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.If they don’t look cooked enough, or cooked at all, put them in the oven for a bit more. They will cook slightly after being taken out of the oven, so keep that in mind.
- Once taken out of the oven let cool for 2 minutes on baking sheet before moving them to a cookie rack.
- OPTIONAL: Sprinkle cookies lightly with cinnamon/sugar while still warm.