Peanut Butter and Apple Oatmeal Cookies
Today’s theme for the Food Network series that I participate in is the first for this season’s ‘Fall Fest.’ I have to be pulled into Fall kicking and screaming ‘I’m not READY!’ because I just hate to see the end of summer. Still I wouldn’t be sharing these Peanut Butter and Apple Oatmeal Cookies that are perfect for Fall if I wasn’t starting to slide that direction.
The theme today is ‘Kid Friendly‘ and I’m probably the only one of the group that doesn’t have any kiddos still living at home so you might think it would be a huge stretch for me. Still, if you know me than you know my house is an open door for the neighbor kids so I’m always thinking kid friendly!
I took one of my all-time favorite treats as a kid when my mom would slather some peanut butter on apple slices and transformed it into a cookie. Did it work? Well, it’s the morning after and they’re almost all gone if that says anything. I combined chunky peanut butter with oatmeal cookies and included diced apple pieces in the mix.
So moist and chewy and nutty and wonderful; it really did take me back to a simpler time. Kids on the street and bike races without helmets and “King of the Hill’ and our favorite, Flashlight Tag. I grew up in Missouri in a suburb of St. Louis so not only was Flashlight Tag a fun nighttime game but now a sweet reminder of how our flashlights completed only with lightning bugs; something that doesn’t visit our high altitude Colorado home. Ahhh…sweet memories.
You don’t need to love peanut butter apples like I do to enjoy these Peanut Butter and Apple Oatmeal Cookies. Just a word of caution. They are super moist and chewy and have the potential to crumble just a bit. No one here noticed; they were too busy gobbling them up, crumbs and all!
Peanut Butter and Apple Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter at room temperature
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup chunky peanut butter or creamy if you prefer
- 1 large egg
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups old fashioned oats
- 1 apple peel removed and cut into 1/4 inch dice
- Cinnamon Sugar - 1/4 cup sugar mixed with 1-2 Tbsp of cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- Beat the butter and sugars together until smooth and creamy. Add the peanut butter and mix again until smooth.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and mix until well combined.
- Add the flour mixture and oatmeal and mix just until combined. Stir in the diced apples.
- Scoop the dough into walnut size balls and place on prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 11-14 minutes total, removing from the oven halfway to sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mixture. Rotate pans and continue baking until light golden brown around the edges. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for for a couple of minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
Nutrition
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I like fall. But at the end of our fall, we have a much milder winter than you do, so there’s that. And our summer gets way hotter than yours, too! 🙂 Anyway, fun cookies. Always like oatmeal in a cookie, and I’ll snarf peanut butter anytime. Thanks!
Shhhh don’t tell because we are being overrun by outsiders BUT out winters are not that bad. The mountains get all the press but our snowfall here is much fewer and far between. Oh sure maybe a blizzard or two but each day? Our mile closer to the sun warms the soul on many winter days!
I think my thing is this…I do LOVE summer. Not humid even on hot days and so I live outdoors; loving to start the day with breakfast on my porch and work in my garden as much as possible. I love my pots of herbs which I use so much for cooking and cocktails and I sure love my yard and garden which I’ve killed myself in just two years to create a pleasant ambiance. But on top of just loving summer? Ours starts a good month later than the rest of the country; when you’re lucky enough to be planting outside, we’re having our last blizzard…so when I cry, ‘I’m not READY!’ it’s partly because I want the same time you get. But wouldn’t trade what I get for the world…I don’t miss humidity one bit, not one little sweaty bit. 🙂
I do see it coming. I’m just holding off as long as I can!