Holy taste-of-fall-in-your-mouth cookie! I spied a bag of Palmer brand caramel apple chocolate cups at the local Dollar Tree and tried one. I had to admit that alone, the taste was a bit strong. So, I did what any normal person would do to make it less subtle… I stuffed it inside a cookie! Introducing our Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles:
Paired with the cinnamon sugar, it has the perfect amount of caramel apples flavoring without being too overbearing. These are chewy on the inside with a slight crisp on the edges… if fresh out of the oven, they literally melt in your mouth. Deeelish!
I diced my caramel apple cups in half so the cookie wouldn’t be ginormous and so the flavor wouldn’t be too strong. Bonus! One bag, which has around 20 cups, will make 2 batches…not too shabby for $1 worth of chocolate cups! 😉
Caramel Apple Snickerdoodles
Ingredients
Cookie
- 8 caramel apple chocolate cups
- 1 cup butter
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 2 tsp. cream of tartar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
Topping
- 3 tbs. sugar
- 3 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Set your cookie sheet in the fridge to chill.
- Cut caramel apple cups in half, set aside.
- Cream butter and 1 1/2 cups sugar.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Combine flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl.
- Blend dry ingredients into butter mixture.
- Roll dough into 1.5" balls.
- Flatten and add halved caramel apple chocolate cups.
- Fold over cups and roll dough into ball again.
- Chill dough for 10 minutes in the fridge on chilled cookie sheet.
- While dough is chilling, mix remaining sugar with 3 tsp. cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Gently rolling balls of dough in the sugar mixture.
- Place on chilled ungreased cookie sheet and bake 10 minutes.
- Remove from pan immediately but CAREFULLY as middle will be very soft from caramel cup.
- Let cool and enjoy while warm.
Notes
Try our other popular stuffed cookies, our rolo chocolate cookie recipe! Our classic chocolate chip cookies or key lime pie cookies from our fab contrib Carrie are also so very very YUM.
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lollyjane says
Wahoo! Thank you, Aniko! xo
Tara @ Anything & Everything says
These look absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to try the recipe. I am going to include this in my Fabulous Finds Friday tomorrow 🙂
Trish says
Where do you find the Carmel apple cups
lollyjane says
Hi Trish, we found ours at Dollar Tree but Winco also carries them!
Virginia Fynes says
These look so delicious, perfect for fall! YUM
Amber Rhodes says
These look incredible! So glad I found your blog!
lollyjane says
Thanks so much, Amber! We’re happy you did too. These are sooo yummy! The surprise apple flavor is tasty!!