Apple Cookies

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 large apples, peeled, cored and shredded
• 4 teaspoons sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 lightly grease cookie sheet. set aside.
• 2 in a mixing bowl, stir together 1st six ingredients. set aside.
• 3 in large mixing bowl, beat softened butter or margarine on medium speed for 30 seconds.
• 4 add sugar and beat until fluffy.
• 5 add eggs and beat well.
• 6 stir in shredded apples.
• 7 gradually add flour mixture, beating until combined.
• 8 drop by rounded teaspoons on cooking sheet 2 inches apart.
• 9 stir together the 4 tsps. sugar and the 1/4 teaspoons cinnamon.
• 10 sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture over tops of cookie dough.
• 11 bake in 375 degree oven for 8-10 minutes or till bottoms are lightly browned.
• 12 cool on cookie sheet for 1 minute.
• 13 remove and cool completely on wire racks, if you can wait that long.
• 14 makes about 40 cookies.
• 15 enjoy!