Apple Walnut Oatmeal Cookies with Maple Glaze
These soft and chewy walnut oatmeal cookies are made with apple sauce and finished with sweet maple glaze.Yield: makes 29 cookies
Servings: 29 cookies
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (57 g), room temp
- ¾ cup brown sugar (150 g), light or dark variety, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar (100 g)
- 1 large egg, room temp
- 1 Tablespoon molasses (20 g)
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce (130 g)
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour (195 g)
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon fine sea salt, or kosher salt
- 1 ½ cup old-fashioned oats (135 g), also labeled as rolled oats
- 1 cup walnuts (115 g) lightly toasted, roughly chopped
Maple Glaze:
- 1 ½ cup confectioners' sugar (175 g), unsifted powdered sugar
- ¼ cup dark maple syrup (75 g)
- pinch fine sea salt or kosher salt
- 1 Tablespoon milk or non-dairy alternative milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or using a hand mixer), cream butter. Add brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix until smooth. Add egg, molasses, and apple sauce.
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and sea salt. Add to mixing bowl. Fold in rolled oats and walnuts.
- Use a 1 ½- inch scoop to portion out cookies. Arrange on parchment lined baking sheet at least 2 inches apart. Bake for 13-15 minutes, rotating pans midway through baking. Allow to cool in pan for 3 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool to room temperature.
- Maple Glaze: Whisk together powdered sugar, maple syrup, salt and milk until smooth. If glaze is too thick, add additional milk 1 tsp at a time until desired consistency is achieved. Drizzle glaze over cooled cookies. Enjoy immediately, or allow glaze to harden and set.