Applesauce Honey Cookies

A really delicious cookie to make in the fall.  They have a wonderful apple and spice with a hint of honey. The cookie is soft and moist.  I used a cookie stamp to make fall flowers and decorated them with fall chocolate chips with colored sugar before I baked them.  The recipe calls for you to flatten them with a fork.  I plan to hide some of these in the freezer to give as a hostess gift and friends.

• Servings: 36 servings
• Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
• Difficulty: intermediate
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Ingredients:

• 2 ¼ cup flour
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon of ground ginger
• ¼ teaspoon of salt
• ½ cup butter room temperature
• ½ cup packed brown sugar
• ½ cup white sugar
• 1 large egg
• ½ cup applesauce
• 1 tablespoon honey room temperature

Directions:

Sift together in a separate bowl flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ground ginger and salt. Cream in a mixing bowl butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Add egg, applesauce and honey then mix until blended. Chill for an hour.

Pre heat oven 375 degrees. Prepare cookies sheets with parchment paper or vegetable spray.

Roll in ball size of walnuts and place on cookie sheet. Use fork to flatten cookie or cookie stamp.

Bake for 10 -14 minutes until slightly brown and set. Let cool on wire rack.