Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies [vegan + gluten-free] • Wholesome Helper

These wholesome Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies are comfortable, gluten-free, and made with chickpeas, oat flour, applesauce, and sugar-free apple butter, making them the right cozy fall dessert.

These Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies are comfortable, cozy, and filled with heat cinnamon apple taste in each chunk. Made with healthful components like chickpeas, oat flour, applesauce, and sugar-free apple butter, these more healthy thumbprint cookies are naturally sweetened, gluten-free, and ideal for fall baking or on a regular basis snacking.

They’ve the feel of a soft-baked cookie with a candy apple butter heart that tastes identical to mini apple pies. Plus, they’re straightforward to make with easy pantry staples and no difficult steps.

Why You’ll Love These Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies

• Delicate and chewy texture
• Made with healthful components
• Naturally gluten-free
• Refined sugar-free
• Filled with fiber
• Simple to make in a single bowl
• Excellent for fall or summer time baking and vacation cookie trays

Substances You’ll Want

• Chickpeas: They create a comfortable, tender texture whereas including fiber and plant-based protein to the cookies.
• Unsweetened Applesauce: Applesauce provides moisture and pure sweetness whereas serving to bind the dough collectively.
• Vanilla Bean Powder or Vanilla Extract: Vanilla enhances the nice and cozy apple pie taste and provides further sweetness with out sugar.
• Gluten-Free Oat Flour: Oat flour creates a comfortable, hearty cookie texture that pairs completely with cinnamon and apple flavors.
• Coconut Flour: Coconut flour helps take in moisture and provides the cookies construction.
• Cinnamon: Cinnamon provides a heat, cozy taste that makes these cookies style like apple pie.
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda: These assist the cookies rise barely and create a comfortable baked texture.
• Good Good Sugar-Free Apple Butter: Apple butter creates the candy thumbprint filling and brings concentrated apple pie taste to each chunk.

How you can Make Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies

1. Preheat the Oven: Preheat your oven to 350 levels and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Mix the Moist Substances: Add the chickpeas, applesauce, and vanilla to a meals processor and mix till fully clean.
3. Combine the Dry Substances: In a separate bowl, mix the oat flour, coconut flour, cinnamon, baking powder, and baking soda.
4. Mix the Dough: Combine the moist and dry components collectively till a dough types. The dough could also be barely sticky.
5. Form the Cookies: Roll the dough into 12 evenly sized balls and place them on the ready baking sheet.
6. Create the Thumbprints: Press down gently within the heart of every cookie utilizing your thumb or finger to create a small effectively.
7. Add the Apple Butter: Fill every thumbprint with about 1/2 teaspoon of the cinnamon apple butter combination.
8. Bake the Cookies: Bake for 13 to fifteen minutes till the cookies are set and frivolously golden.
9. Cool Earlier than Serving: Permit the cookies to chill on a wire rack earlier than serving.

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Ideas for the Greatest Thumbprint Cookies

• Use Easy Chickpeas: Mix the chickpeas completely so the dough turns into fully clean and creamy.
• Do Not Overfill the Facilities: A small quantity of apple butter works greatest so it doesn’t overflow throughout baking.
• Let the Cookies Cool Fully: The cookies agency up as they cool, giving them the right comfortable and chewy texture.
• Retailer Correctly: Maintain leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge for the perfect texture and freshness.

What to Serve with Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies

These cookies pair completely with:

• Scorching espresso
• Chai tea
• Almond milk
• Vanilla yogurt
• A summer time or fall dessert platter

In addition they make an awesome, more healthy vacation cookie possibility for events, cookie exchanges, or meal prep snacks.

Often Requested Questions

Are these thumbprint cookies gluten-free?

Sure, these cookies are naturally gluten-free when made with licensed gluten-free oat flour.

Can I exploit common apple butter?

Sure, common apple butter works if you don’t want the cookies to be sugar-free.

Do the cookies style like chickpeas?

No. The chickpeas create texture and moisture, however the cinnamon, vanilla, and apple butter flavors fully shine by.

Can I freeze these cookies?

Sure. Retailer them in an hermetic container and freeze for as much as 2 months.

Are you a fan of apple pie?

What’s your favourite number of apple?

Have you ever ever made thumbprint cookies earlier than? So enjoyable!

76 responses to “Apple Pie Thumbprint Cookies [vegan + gluten-free]”

1. What’s it about thumbprint cookies? They’re simply so treasured! Love the flavors you used right here!

   
   

2. Yay for chickpeas! These look so so scrumptious!

   I’ve an insane quantity of apples to make use of up for the time being (we went apple selecting a couple of weeks again and Jesse insisted on selecting 17 LBS (I child you not) of apples for simply the 2 of us to eat. I undoubtedly have to make some apple butter – after which make this!

   
   

3. My dad loves apple crumble in order that’s the dessert in my home each tuesday. I like pink woman apples! Have you ever tried lemonade apples? These are wonderful.

4. Woah I like the way you used chickpeas in these cookies, you’d by no means be capable to inform! They give the impression of being DELISH!

   
   

5. Yum! I like that these are oil- and sugar-free, too! 🙂

   
   

6. I 100% agree that you could eat apples ALL the time, and I’m so grateful that they’re just about all the time in season. After we had been in Europe, we ate apples that had been HUGE. You need to get some apples when you find yourself in Europe. They’re DELICIOUS! That’s so neat that you just made these with chickpeas.

   
   

7. YUM!! I by no means considered apple in a thumbprint-type cookie. I additionally like the concept of a softer, cake-like cookie. I can’t wait to offer these a attempt. Thanks for sharing!

   
   

8. Lol. Nationwide apple pie day? It appears too early within the 12 months for that! Haha. I usually am not a lot of a fan of apple pie, until it’s my aunt’s. She makes THE BEST apple pie. Yum.

   
   

9. HI Kaila,
   Wow these cookies sound so yummy & wholesome. What a wholesome snack they might make. Thanks for sharing on Actual Meals Fridays. Pinned & tweeted!

   
   

10. I like thumbprint cookies and apples, however by no means thought to make use of apple butter in em’! That is an superior concept! ;D

    
    

11. Apples are an any season fruit to me, and cookies are undoubtedly a 12 months spherical affair too 🙂 Cripsins, I don’t assume I’ve ever tried these. I’ve been all around the Fujis and Ambrosias recently, like 4 a day generally lol! These little cookies are the cutest, and I am keen on the components!

    
    

12. I’m a HUGE fan of apple. And simply the identify of those cookies sounds unbelievable! In addition they sound like they’ll fill the home up with a beautiful odor! My favourite type of apple must be a recent crisp natural apple…with peanut butter! I do know it might sound boring, however I may eat that each single day! Perhaps even two instances a day!

    
    

13. Oh my this appears to be like good- love that it’s vegan and gluten free!

    
    

14. These cookies look so yummy. Can’t wait to make them. Thanks for the recipe.

    
    

15. I wish to make these. Now. Kaila the cookies look scrumptious. Pinning for menu planning.

    
    

16. Hey Kaila!
    Simply made these 🙂 they had been fairly good, however I used to be principally out of oats, so I had to make use of 1/2 c oats, the 1/4 c every buckwheat combine and chickpea flour. I don’t if it was due to the chickpea flour however I needed to adD 4 tsp of liquid and bake them about 4 minutes longer.
    Subsequent time I might additionally add extra spice and perhaps a tbsp of apple butter inside, however they had been nonetheless good and I’d make them once more! Thanks for the recipe 🙂

    • Awww thanks a lot for making an attempt them!! I undoubtedly assume the chickpea flour would make it so that you just wanted extra liquid…in order that appears proper! Thanks for the tip on the spices! Glad you loved them! Take a pic in the event you can and tag me on Instagram…I’d like to see them! 🙂

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18. And now I need a cookie! Thanks for sharing on the “What’s for Dinner” social gathering!

    
    

19. oh yum! Thanks for becoming a member of us for meatless Monday

    
    

20. Very cute cookie and one other recipe to go to my daughter who eats gluten free. Thanks

    
    

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22. Yummy, Seems to be so good . Thanks for sharing

    
    

23. Thumbprint cookies/all cookies are a weak spot of mine!
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24. I like cake-like cookies! These sound excellent for this time of 12 months and look so cute too – I’m positive I would wish to eat a couple of!

    
    

25. These sound beautiful! I like baking with chickpeas too. Thanks for including to #CookBlogShare

    
    

26. Such a enjoyable cookie! I wager my kiddos would love these. Thanks for sharing this with us at Savoring Saturdays linky social gathering!

    
    

27. These sound wonderful, and look cute – can’t wait to attempt them 🙂

    
    

28. These cookies appear to be an awesome wholesome different!!! Thanks for sharing at Funtastic Friday!

    
    

29. These look so scrumptious. I’ve not had home made cookies since going gluten-free, and I’m considering it’s about time. I like the apple filling within the heart, and also you’re proper you would accomplish that many alternative issues with this recipe. The black cherry preserves is sounding fairly doggone good too.

    
    

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33. What an awesome wholesome snack!! I like the addition of the apple butter within the thumbprint!! Yum!! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favourite Issues on Thursday! Hope to see you once more tomorrow!! Pinned!

    
    

34. Completely wholesome! Wouldn’t even know I used to be consuming a cookie!

    
    

35. What a tasty sounding cookie – we go apple selecting each fall to get sufficient to make pies and LOTS of applesauce. I’ve by no means discovered a cookie that I may make with them, however now I’ve! 😉 Thanks for sharing at #HappinessIsHomemade!

    
    

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42. I don’t know something about totally different sorts of apples, however I do know that I like thumbprint cookies! They remind me of after I was a child and my mother would bake (which was uncommon 🙂 )

    
    

43. An ideal model of a basic cookie! Thanks for sharing on the What’s for Feast! Have an awesome weekend!

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