Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles combine the taste of your favorite cinnamon sugar cookie with the deliciousness of chewy caramel and fresh apples too! Soft, chewy and absolutely delicious!
Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles came about as I was trying to come up with a fun fall twist on one of my favorite cookie recipes. The snickerdoodles are fabulous on their own, but add the apples and caramel and these cookies become absolutely unbelievable. I wish I could explain how good these are, but I think you’ll just have to try them to fully understand!
What are Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles?
Snickerdoodles are soft cookies that are rolled in cinnamon and sugar. Caramel apple snickerdoodles take these cookies up a notch or two. Place a soft caramel in the middle of the cookie and mix some chopped apples into the cookie dough. Nothing says fall better than cinnamon, apples and caramel…in one delicious cookie recipe!
INGREDIENTS IN CARAMEL APPLE SNICKERDOODLES
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup peeled and finely diced apples
- 30 Werther’s Soft Caramels (you will need two 4.5 oz bags)
CINNAMON SUGAR TOPPING
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
How to make Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles
- Make the topping by mixing the sugar and cinnamon together. Set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy (1-2 minutes) with an electric mixer. Mix in the egg and vanilla and set aside.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together on low until well combined.
- Stir in the apples until well combined.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop out the dough and flatten it a little bit with your fingers. Flatten one of the caramels a little and place on top of the dough. Then mold the dough around the caramel and roll into a ball.
- Place each ball of dough into the topping mixture and roll around until well coated. Place the cookie dough balls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for about 10-11 minutes or until the cookies are very lightly browned. Cool for at least 15-20 minutes on the baking sheets before you try to move them to a wire rack so that the cookies don’t fall apart! Or you can eat them warm with a spoon. And some vanilla ice cream.
CARAMEL APPLE SNICKERDOODLES
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups flour
- 2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup peeled and finely diced apples
- 30 Werther’s Soft Caramels you will need two 4.5 oz bags
CINNAMON SUGAR TOPPING
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Make the topping by mixing the sugar and cinnamon together. Set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy (1-2 minutes) with an electric mixer. Mix in the egg and vanilla and set aside.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix together on low until well combined.
- Stir in the apples until well combined.
- Using a cookie scoop, scoop out the dough and flatten it a little bit with your fingers. Flatten one of the caramels a little and place on top of the dough. Then mold the dough around the caramel and roll into a ball.
- Place each ball of dough into the topping mixture and roll around until well coated. Place the cookie dough balls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 for about 10-11 minutes or until the cookies are very lightly browned. Cool for at least 15-20 minutes on the baking sheets before you try to move them to a wire rack so that the cookies don’t fall apart! Or you can eat them warm with a spoon. And some vanilla ice cream. 😉
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TIPS FOR AMAZING CARAMEL APPLE SNICKERDOODLE COOKIES
- Make sure that you have enough flour in the dough. If the dough is too sticky, you may need to add a little bit of flour. The dough in this recipe is slightly sticky and may stick to your fingers slightly as you are rolling the balls, but if they are impossible to shape into balls, add a little bit more flour.
- Do not melt the butter! The butter needs to be softened (at room temperature), but using melted butter will ruin these cookies.
- Spend a little extra time when you mix the butter and sugars. Creaming them together for 2-3 minutes will improve the consistency of your cookies.
- Preheat the oven. This will help your cookies turn out right every time!
- Use a cookie scoop! If you want all your cookies to be perfectly shaped and have them all be the same size, a cookie scoop is the way to go.
- Use parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Doing this will make it really easy to remove the cookies from your cookie sheet so that you don’t have to scrape them off the pan – they will just slide right off in perfect shape!
- Don’t overbake the cookies – when I take mine out of the oven, they still look slightly underbaked but they will continue to bake on the cookie sheet for a couple more minutes so that’s ok!
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Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles combine the taste of your favorite cinnamon sugar cookie with the deliciousness of chewy caramel and fresh apples too! Soft, chewy and absolutely delicious!
DKarg says
Went looking for a caramel apple cookie for which I had all the ingredients for and found this one. Cookies were very good. I would make again. I used Kraft caramels. I cut them in half because my scooper was small. These were an easy and fun cookie to make with my daughter.
Loretta says
They were delicious.
Alison says
Thank you Loretta!
Angelic Dudley says
Delicious!! Made these for a wedding shower today and they were a HUGE hit! Definitely going into the regular dessert rotation.
Kaitlyn Stewart says
The dough was too crumbly, the recipe didn’t differentiate between topping and recipe ingredients. The cookie turned out a mess.
Nellie says
Not sure what went wrong! I re-checked the recipe and it seems to be pretty clear what the topping ingredients are. Maybe you somehow added too much flour?
Trudy Bognar says
Made these last weekend. I should of read the remarks on adding more flour to the dough bc it was wayyy to sticky I couldn’t even work with it. The flavor was yummy but the cookie it self turned out mushy like lol. When I try these again and I will bc I absolutely love Snicker doodle cookies I’m going to try and find some kind of Carmel flavor bc the Carmel was to big or cut it in half like 1 comment said she did.