These apple cider cookies are soft and chewy with the flavor of cinnamon, and apple cider in every bite. With a chewy caramel in the middle they’re a perfect cookie for fall!
These caramel apple cider cookies are full of delicious apple cider flavor in every bite, with a fun surprise of soft caramel in the middle. Especially when you eat them warm!
I like to heat mine up in the microwave if I’m enjoying them again after they’ve cooled down to get the caramel in the middle nice and warm and gooey. Just about 5 to 10 seconds is all you need.
These cookies are the perfect combination of apple cider and caramel apples. They kind of remind me of those yummy green caramel apple suckers I grew up getting for Halloween. Or of my favorite hot drink in the fall, the caramel apple spice from Starbucks.
These caramel apple cider cookies are so soft and chewy in every bite. So delicious and so good to make this fall!
I originally adapted this recipe from What’s Cooking with Ruthie.
How to make Caramel Apple Cider Cookies?
Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl. Mix for a couple minutes till nice and creamy. Add in the vanilla extract, egg, and apple juice and stir it all together.
Mix in the dry ingredients, the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and apple cider mix. You should have a nice soft dough. Refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes to 1 hour, to help keep the cookies from being too flat.
When you’re almost ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven. Unwrap the soft caramels too. Take a tablespoon of cookie dough and flatten it in your hand. Put a caramel in the middle and roll the dough around the caramel. Place the ball onto a prepared cookie sheet.
Bake the cookies for a few minutes until the edges start to turn golden brown. Allow the cookies to cool for a few minutes on the pan, then carefully transfer them to a cooling rack. Enjoy cookies warm, or let them cool completely.
These caramel apple cider cookies are such a delicious fall cookie. They’re bursting with the flavors of fall in every single bite! They’re so soft and chewy, and the gooey caramel in the middle is near perfection!
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Caramel Apple Cider Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks, softened)
- 2/3 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 1/3 cup granulated white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup apple cider
- 5 packets Apple Cider Instant Drink from a 7.4 oz 10 packet box
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cups all purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
- 14 oz caramels
Instructions
- Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl. Cream together until well mixed.
- Add in vanilla, eggs and apple juice concentrate and stir into the mixture.
- Add baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and flour mix it all together.
- Refrigerate mixture for about 1 hour, or longer.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Unwrap all your caramels. Line a cookie sheet with parchment or a silpat liner.
- Take about 1 TBS of cookie dough into your hand and flatten it.
- Put a caramel in the middle of the dough and roll the dough into a ball around the caramel.
- Place on prepared cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for about 8-10 minutes, until edges start to turn golden, and the top of the cookies are set.
- When cookies are done allow them to cool about 5 minutes on the pan.
- Then carefully transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
- Allow the cookies to continue cooling completely, or enjoy warm.
Nutrition
These Caramel Apple Cider cookies were first posted on November 11, 2013. The photos and blog text were updated on September 11, 2020 but the recipe stayed the same.
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