Cookie 16 – Apple Spice Cookies with Cream Cheese Icing

Recipe Ingredients

• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 8.5-ounce jar of apple butter
• 2 egg whites
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon baking spice
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice

Recipe Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Cream together the unsalted butter and brown sugar.
3. Add apple butter and honey.
4. In a separate bowl whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and allspice.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient mixture in two parts.
6. Use a cookie scoop or spoons to drop into rounded balls on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes.
8. Remove from cookie sheet with spatula and cool on drying rack.

Recipe Ingredients

• 1/2 cup cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Recipe Directions

1. Whip the cream cheese, butter and vanilla extract together just until blended.
2. Add the powdered sugar a bit at a time and whip like crazy.
3. Whip it. Whip it good.