Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

Published September 29, 2017. Updated October 26, 2018

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Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies are the perfect thing to bake any day of the year but I especially love them during fall. They are soft and cake-like in the middle with chewy, slightly crisp edges, and that delicious apple flavor and abundance of cinnamon will leave everyone craving more!

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

The Perfect Autumn Apple Recipe

I’ve always loved oatmeal cookies and when you add apples and autumn spices they become the absolute perfect autumn cookie! Those tiny little bits of apples in these cookies just make them sing!

I love how every season has fruits that pair with it, like bright oranges and tempting pomegranate in winter, sweet strawberries and mangos in the spring, juicy watermelon and plump blueberries in the summer, and those crisp apples and mellow pears in the fall.

And right now I’m really loving adding apples to everything! From my oatmeal in the morning, to salads at lunch, to my sheet pan meals at dinner, and now here we finish off with apples in our cookies for dessert!

Stack of multi-colored apples in wooden bucket.

Ingredients You’ll Need for This Recipe

  • All-purpose flour
  • Rolled Oats
  • Cinnamon
  • Baking soda
  • Salt
  • Unsalted butter
  • Brown sugar
  • Egg
  • Vanilla extract
  • Granny Smith apples
  • Lemon

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Image of diced bits of apples over cookie dough in a mixing bowl.

How to Make Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

  • Preheat oven and line baking sheets.
  • Whisk together flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.
  • In an electric mixer cream butter and brown sugar.
  • Mix in egg and vanilla extract.
  • Toss apples with lemon juice.
  • Add flour mixture to dough mix until combined, then mix in apples.
  • Scoop dough out using a medium cookie scoop and drop onto prepared baking sheets. Flatten slightly.
  • Bake in oven until cookies are set. Cool on wire rack.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Tips for These Apple Cookies

  • Another tart crisp apple can be substituted for Granny Smith. Don’t use sweet apples though, there’s already enough sugar in the dough.
  • Cut the apples up very very small so not only will they bake through and become tender but that way you’ll also get apples flavor in each and every bite.
  • Don’t omit the lemon, it brightens up the apple flavor a bit more.
  • Don’t use quick oats. Rolled old fashioned oats will offer the best texture and flavor.
  • Use the scoop and sweep method to measure flour (not spoon and level), or better yet use a kitchen scale for the most consistent results.
  • Use a cookie scoop for the fastest method for scooping out dough, it will also give you even size cookies.
  • For the perfect pairing serve with warm apple cider.

Tall stack of Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

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Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
4.78 from 71 votes

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

A delicious, soft cake-like cookie filled with oats, loaded with tiny chunks of apples and swirled with plenty of cinnamon. The perfect cookie to make on fall weekends!
Servings: 19 cookies
Prep15 minutes
Cook30 minutes
Ready in: 45 minutes

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two 18 by 13-inch baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper. 
  • In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, oats, cinnamon, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
  • In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment cream together butter and brown sugar until combined. Mix in egg and vanilla extract.
  • Toss apples with lemon juice in a small bowl. Add flour mixture to egg and vanilla mixture and mix until combined, then mix in apples. 
  • Scoop dough out using a medium cookie scoop, or 2 Tbsp at a time, and drop onto prepared baking sheets spacing cookies 2-inches apart. Flatten them just slightly.
  • Bake one sheet at a time in preheated oven until cookies are set, about 14 - 15 minutes. 
  • Let cool on baking sheet several minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Store cookies in an airtight container.
  • Recipe source: Cooking Classy

Notes

Use rolled old fashioned oats for best results. Don't substitute quick oats.
Dice apples into tiny bites so they cook through and soften by the time cookies are done.
Nutrition Facts
Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 134 Calories from Fat 45
% Daily Value*
Fat 5g8%
Saturated Fat 3g19%
Cholesterol 22mg7%
Sodium 71mg3%
Potassium 50mg1%
Carbohydrates 19g6%
Sugar 9g10%
Protein 1g2%
Vitamin A 165IU3%
Vitamin C 0.5mg1%
Calcium 15mg2%
Iron 0.7mg4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates only. See full disclaimer here.

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207 Comments

  • Becky

    I used Lodi apples my dad gave me from his tree. Tart like a Granny Smith and I put a few white chips in my last few cookies that are getting ready to go in the oven. WARNING THESE ARE ADDICTING!!!! Soooo good!

  • Steffanie Wygant

    Hello! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new iphone 4! Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward to all your posts! Keep up the fantastic work!

  • Wendy Smith

    Made these with Pink Lady apples as I was given quite a few. I used less sugar just in case the apples were too sweet and they turned out beautifully.

  • June Maxwel

    I loved these cookies so much. They are like little subtly delicious pillows. I did not pack the brown sugar and so they were just slightly sweet. Perfect. But next time I will pack the sugar and see how that tastes. Following an inspiration, I dipped some of them in melted milk chocolate which then hardened. This added another dimension of wonderfulness but the cookies are soft so they are hard to dip without breaking. Anyway……I think I will also try them using pear instead of apple and/or a mix of the two. Thanks so much for this recipe.

  • Darlene

    Hello
    I made these cookies and followed recipe to the “T”. I measured like recipe says about 2 Tbsps per cookie. I set oven at 350, let it warm up. I set my timer for 14 minutes and timer went and I looked at cookies and they were black on the bottom. Is it because I used parchment paper on bottom of cookie sheets?? I am so disappointed. ☹️☹️ They were also extremely dry!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      I’m so sorry to hear that it shouldn’t be the parchment paper. Does your oven normally cook hot? Or were dark baking sheets used by chance?

    • Stanley Hallman-Chong

      I used parchment too and they didn’t burn. In fact, I too found it a bit dry, so i used extra butter the second time and still it did not burn. The second time, I also added a bit of extra sugar.

  • Elizabeth

    My daughter and I just made these. They are wonderful! Im not sure why people said there wasn’t enough moisture. Our batch was perfect making it exactly as the recipe said. This is going in my good fill-in recipe book. Thank you!

    • Jaclyn

      Jaclyn Bell

      Cookies spread and hold up a bit different with coconut oil so I don’t recommend it in this recipe.

  • Franee

    These are absolutely amazing.. I would give them a 10 if I could.. made these with my granddaughter (a picky toddler) and she kept asking for another and they were just as yummy the next day!!! Will have to double the recipe next time because I couldn’t keep the entire family out of them!!! Thank you for this recipe, it will definitely be in the top 3 of my favorite cookies…