Vegan Apple Oatmeal Cookies

Total Time: 41 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 26 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups of quaker instant apple and cinnamon oatmeal
• 1/2 cup of quaker instant cinnamon roll oatmeal
• 1 cup peeled and chopped apple

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 whisk dry ingredients; set aside.
• 3 combine wet ingredients with a hand mixer on low.
• 4 to cream, increase speed to high and beat until fluffy and the color lightens.
• 5 stir the flour mixture into the creamed mixture until no flour is visible.
• 6 (over mixing develops the gluten, making a tough cookie.) now add the oats and apples; stir to incorporate.
• 7 fill cookie scoop with dough.
• 8 (use a #40 cookie scoop; it measures 2 tablespoon of dough) press against side of bowl, pulling up to level dough.
• 9 drop 2-inches apart onto baking sheet sprayed with nonstick spray.
• 10 bake 11-13 minutes (on center rack), until golden, but still moist beneath cracks on top.
• 11 remove from oven; let cookies sit on baking sheet for 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool.