Salted Caramel Apple Cookie Cups

Here is another delicious apple recipe. This time it’s a sweet and savory treat for those colder afternoons. I have been looking for excuses to use my favorite treat from HomePlus, salted caramel sauce, so I combined them with my other favorite thing, homemade cookies. Check out the recipe below!

Salted Caramel Apple Cookie Cups (Adapted from Life, Love& Sugar)

Cookie Cups
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups flour
2 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon

Topping
1/2 jar of salted caramel sauce
2 large apples
4 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp butter
pinch of nutmeg

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush some canola oil over the muffin tin to grease the pan or spray with cooking spray if you have it. Cream together butter and sugars with an electric mixer for 3-5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until combined. Add the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon. Make balls out of about 2 tbsp of dough and press into the bottom and up the sides of each muffin cup. Bake for about 10 minutes. After you remove them from the oven, use a spoon to push down the middles of the cookies reforming the cup shape. Place back into the oven for 3-5 minutes. Remove and let cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Once the cookie cups have cooled spread about a tbsp of salted caramel sauce into each cookie cup. Set aside. Cut apples into small chunks leaving skin on. Place in a pan with sugar and nutmeg and toss to coat. Add butter and cook on medium for 10 minutes. Top cookies cups with apple and drizzle with more of the salted caramel sauce.

Makes 15 cookies cups.