It’s not an apple- it’s a cookie!

These apple sugar cookies are so cute and are a great recipe to make with your kids during apple season!

Apple Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

• 3/4 softened butter
• 3/4 sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 1/8 cup all purpose flour
• Pinch salt
• 5″ Round cookie cutter with scalloped and regular side
• Red fondant
• Jumbo green M&M’s
• Pretzels sticks
• Parchment paper

Directions:

Step 1: Preheat your oven to 325° and line a baking sheet of parchment paper
Step 2: In a large mixing bowl (here’s the one I have and love), mix together your softened butter and sugar until creamy

Step 3: Then mix in your vanilla and egg quickly (do not over mix)

Step 4: Then add in your flour and salt and mix it (your dough might look crumbly)

Step 5: Knead the dough in your hands until it starts sticking together
Step 6: Lay down a piece of parchment paper and spread around a little flour
Step 7: Then flour a rolling pin and roll your dough out to a thick 1/8″ and cut out circles with your cookie cutter

Step 8: Move the cookie dough circles over to your lined baking pan and cook for 10 minutes (they should look light in color)
Step 9: Let your cookies cool completely
Step 10: Now roll out your red fondant in between two pieces of parchment paper and use the same cookie cutter (washed) but on the scalloped side to cut out your fondant

Step 11: Place the red fondant onto your cookies and then add a broken pretzel piece and a jumbo green M&M on top to look like the stem and leaf of the apple.

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Apple Cookies

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Ingredients

• 3/4 softened butter
• 3/4 sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 1/8 cup all purpose flour
• pinch salt
• 5" Round cookie cutter with scalloped and regular side
• Red fondant
• Jumbo green M&M's
• Pretzels sticks

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 325° and line a baking sheet of parchment paper
2. In a large mixing bowl mix together your softened butter and sugar until creamy
3. Then mix in your vanilla and egg quickly (do not over mix)
4. Then add in your flour and salt and mix (your dough might look crumbly)
5. Knead the dough in your hands until it starts sticking together
6. Lay down a piece of parchment paper and spread around a little flour
7. Then flour a rolling pin and roll your dough out to a thick 1/8" and cut out circles with your cookie cutter
8. Move the cookie dough circles over to your lined baking pan and cook for 10 minutes (they should look light in color)
9. Let your cookies cool
10. Now roll out your fondant in between two pieces of parchment paper and use the same cookie cutter (washed) but on the scalloped side to cut out your fondant
11. Place the fondant onto your cookies and then add a broken pretzel piece and a jumbo green M&M on top to look like the stem and leaf of the Apple