Butter-Free Apple Cookies : Healthy & Easy!…
Apples have always been the undisputed stars of many homemade treats. Their crisp and juicy flesh makes them perfect for sweetening tarts, cakes and cookies. Inspired by these recipes with rustic flavors, we made apple cookies without butter, thus varying the traditional recipe for butter cookies. Instead, this new version of apple cookies will give you delicious treats that hold a soft, mouthwatering heart of whipped fruit. This unusual and wholesome dough is proposed as an alternative to the common shortcrust pastry, and you will discover how apple cookies without butter are even easier and faster to make, truly affordable for everyone!
Ingredients :
- 260g (9 oz) Rennet apples (or Bramley/Granny Smith apples)
- 160g (1 1/3 cups) Plain flour / All-purpose flour
- 50g (3 1/2 tbsp) Extra virgin olive oil
- 5g (1 tsp) Baking powder
- 55g (2 oz) Egg (about 1 medium egg)
- 30g (2 1/2 tbsp) Light brown sugar
- 15g (1 tbsp) Acacia honey
- Zest of 1/2 lemon
- Icing sugar/ Powdered sugar for dusting
How to make Butter-Free Apple Cookies:
- To make apple cookies without butter first wash the apples, then remove the core and cut 130 g of them into cubes about 1 cm. Cut the remaining 130 g of apple into coarser pieces and place these in the tall glass of a blender, pour in the oil.
- Add the honey and blend everything until smooth. In a bowl pour the flour, baking powder,
the sugar and the egg. Mix with a spoon, then incorporate the blended apple as well. - Flavor the mixture with lemon zest and add the apple cubes, stir again to combine. Line a drip pan with baking paper and lay out walnut-sized mounds of dough, helping yourself with a spoon.
- Sprinkle the surface generously with powdered sugar and bake in a static oven at 200°C (390°F) for 20 minutes. Take your butterless apple cookies out of the oven and let them cool on a wire rack before enjoying.
Bon Appétit!
