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These Apple Butter Snickerdoodles are an easy snickerdoodle recipe made with apple butter and a warm cinnamon sugar coating. These snickerdoodles soft and chewy with a hint of apple – they’re the perfect fall cookie recipe.
This cookie recipe has been edited as of 2024 and returned to the original recipe created in 2012.
Are you guys apple butter lovers? Apple butter wasn’t ever really on my radar until a few years ago. It is the perfect fall treat and it tastes so good in these cookies. Apple Butter Snickerdoodles are another perfect fall cookie recipe; they’re soft and chewy with lots of apple and cinnamon flavor.
Ingredients Needed
- Sugar: Granulated sugar is the perfect ingredient to add sweetness to this recipe, and it helps make the cinnamon sugar mixture.
- Flour: I always use All-Purpose Flour
- Cinnamon: This fall spice is a must in any fall cookie recipe.
- Apple Butter: You can use homemade or a jar (found in the peanut butter aisle).
- Butter: I used unsalted butter that’s been softened.
How to make Apple Butter Snickerdoodle Cookies
- Whisk dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Cream butter and sugar in a mixer until fluffy.
- Mix in eggs, vanilla, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, and apple butter. Beat just until mixed. Add in flour mixture and mix until just blended together. Chill dough in a large bowl or it will be too soft to scoop.
- Preheat oven and line baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Scoop balls of cookie dough and roll them in cinnamon sugar.
- Place cookie dough balls on your prepared baking sheet. Bake cookies until they lose their glossy sheen and are puffed and perfect.
Expert Tips
- The dough MUST be chilled. With the butter and the apple butter, if you bake a warm dough you’re going to get flat cookies. If you like flat cookies, go for it. But if you want a puffy cookie, please follow the chilling instructions.
- The apple butter is more of an underlying flavor – when you take a bite you’re hit with the warm cinnamon and then the slight apple flavor totally hits you.
Storage
Store cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for a few days. You can also freeze the baked and cooled cookies.
Apple Butter Snickerdoodles Recipe
This is the ORIGINAL Apple Butter Snickerdoodles recipe. They are an easy snickerdoodle recipe made with apple butter and warm cinnamon. These snickerdoodles soft and chewy and are the perfect fall cookie recipe.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Chill time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 cups (372g) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup (170g) unsalted butter softened
- 1 ¼ cups (250g) granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup Apple Butter
- ½ tsp cinnamon
For the topping:
- ⅓ cup (67g) granualted sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- Cream butter and 1 ¼ cups sugar in a mixer until fluffy. Mix in eggs, vanilla, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, and apple butter.
- Beat just until mixed. Add in flour mixture and mix until just blended together. Chill your dough at least 2 hours.
- This dough MUST be cold before baking. Because of all the butter and apple butter, the cookies will spread quite a bit if you skip the chilling!
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line cookie sheets with parchment or a silpat baking mat.
- Place 1 teaspoon cinnamon and ⅓ cup sugar in a small bowl.
- Scoop balls of cookie dough (mine were done using a 1 or 2 tablespoon cookie scoop) and roll them in the cinnamon sugar.
- Place on your cookie sheet. I recommend only scooping 2 cookie sheets at a time, then re-chill the dough for while those two trays bake.
- Bake cookies for 11-15 minutes or until they're no longer glossy and light golden around the edges. Cool at least 10 minutes before removing from cookie sheets.
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Recipe Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 141kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 24mg | Sodium: 70mg | Potassium: 53mg | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 170IU | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 0.7mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
I made these tonight with my own homemade apple butter from the apples on our trees. My teenage sons love the result and so do I! I made one tweak; I used an entire cup of apple butter and reduced the butter to one-half cup. Thank you for this recipe; it’s a keeper!
1 Tablespoon of vanilla? That sounds like way too much! I used 1 teaspoon.
How were they with 1 tsp of vanilla?? I’d like to make but not sure whether to use a tsp or a tbsp??
These are amazing! Even my husband who was whining about me making snickerdoodles instead of chocolate chip cookies liked them 🙂
LOL, then that’s a huge compliment! My husband is the same way. 🙂
Just got them out of the oven – they are FABULOUS!
What a wonderful combination! I made the dough last night and left it to chill overnight. I just finished baking the last batch, and they are amazing! Mine did not spread out much at all and kept a little of the ball shape, which I think is cute. They have just the right amount of cinnamon and that hint of apple. These cookies will definitely become a fall tradition for my family. For anyone that is already “pumpkin-spiced-out” this is a great fall dessert alternative. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe!
Man, it’s too darn bad you have a blog full of recipes that don’t sound any good.
Are you kidding me?! First of all, snickerdoodles are my all-time favorite cookie. Ever. Second, apple butter?! What? I could lick a jar of it to the bottom. I am all. over. these. That is, once I have a functioning kitchen again. Kill me now.
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