These chewy biscuits taste great. They are a great post-school snack.
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- ¾ cup shortening
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup applesauce
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup raisins
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F ( 195 degrees C ). Grease cookie sheets.
- In a large bowl, cream the shortening, sugar, and egg. Stir in the applesauce. Sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon; stir into the creamed mixture. Then mix in the raisins and nuts.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls onto the prepared cookie sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove to cool on wire racks.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 174 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 24 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 81 mg |
| Sugars | 13 g |
| Fat | 8 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I made this. Used butter flavored shortening, left out nuts and raisens, add vanilla and nutmeg. Very good! Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
It was good. I would recommend using more Sugar and Walnuts.
Easy, yummy, soft cookies! I didn’t use any nuts, just added extra raisins instead. Kids loved them!
I made a few changes to make it lower in fat and sugar, turned out great a real cakelike cookie. I used 1/4 cup veg oil and 1 cup applesauce, 1/2 c brown sugar, added 1/4 tsp ground cloves and 1 tsp vanilla.
I give these cookies 5 stars because they are great for a snack, with coffee, and are not too sweet! I added only a tsp. of vanilla as suggested in some reviews. Did omit raisins as we did not have any. They are good, just with the walnuts! May try next time with either raisins or dried cranberries.
I read 10 reviews before making, added choc chips and used butter, cinnamon and vanilla and still found these cookies flat! Should not have doubled the batch, still have dough I did not bake and need to try and FIX it. I even made cream cheese frosting so that they were more appealing. Maybe it was the homemade applesauce I used.
This is the recipe my mother used. I find they’re much tastier if one adds nutmeg, more cinnamon and a tsp of vanilla.
You can make a delicious chocolate chip version of this recipe. I love the texture of this cookie, and it’s not greasy at all. I deleted the spices and raisins. Instead, add 1 tbsp. vanilla, a little salt and 3/4 cup chocolate chips. I made a couple of “test” cookies with this new batter and decided it needed a little more vanilla and chips, so you might want to experiment before you make the entire batch. You can make bigger cookies because these cookies don’t fall.
I tried out the recipe by cutting it in half, but they came out fairly dry & lacking much flavor.
Excellent cookie recipe. I have added 1 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup craisins, 1/2 cup golden raisins, 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, and 1/2 cup white chocolate chips for a more heartier cookie. Everyone loves them!
My hubby really enjoyed these cookies. They were pretty simple to make also! I never made cookies before and they turned out great! Like the others, I added the 1 tsp of vanilla. Also added in a little extra flour. Used 2 sticks of butter rather than shortening like mentioned in one review. THANKS SO MUCH!
Excellent cookie recipe. My family loves this one. Very moist cookie. I baked at 350 degrees however for 10 minutes…and added one teaspoon vanilla and one teaspoon of cinnamin. I did not grease cookie sheet, just used nonstick cookie sheet
Love ’em… added vanilla extract and freshly grated nutmeg… put raisins in one batch, left the other batch “naked” for my raisin-haters. I only baked them for ten minutes so they wouldn’t be hard, and they turned out just right. I also made them a little bit bigger than one teaspoon, something like a big tablespoon. Very nice.
Love this because it it not all sweetness. I would like to drizzle a stuesel glaze on them next time.
I just baked these cookies and they are really good. I read some other reviews and altered the recipe a bit. Replaced shortening with 2 sticks of butter, melted. Added more cinnamon, 1/4 tsp grnd Nutmeg and Cloves, 1 tsp vanilla, and used slivered almonds instead of walnuts (I was out). I also sprinkled some powdered sugar on top. Yummy! Next time I will make some butter frosting for these cookies.
This is my first time making applesauce cookies and WOW!! They came out perfect. I followed the recipe almost exact. I used cinnamon applesauce. I didn’t grease the cookie sheet and they didn’t stick, browned perfectly. I did add some nutmeg. I baked for exactly 10 minutes each time and they were done. Very fluffy. LOVE ‘EM!!
These cookies were like cake cookies to me. I didnt add any nutmeg, and added one teaspoon of vanilla. These cookies were even better without the nuts and raisins in my opinion. I will make these again, they are super easy!
The bottoms of my cookies got black before the cookies were completely done baking, and they came out dry….plus, it lacked something, flavor wise. Not likely to use this recipe again.
I enjoyed making this easy recipe. I added some modifications as mentioned in earlier reviews…I added 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla, a pinch of nutmeg and allspice, and most importantly, drizzled a confectioner’s sugar icing on top of the cookies…they were just what I was looking for!
Ended up adding some more sugar.
The cookies were ok–nothing special–definetely cake like and not chewy which isn’t a horrible thing but they lacked real flavor–I even added a tsp of vanilla and it didn’t help much at all…won’t be making these again.