Apple-Raisin Cookies

Over the weekend, I visited two [out of three] of my sisters and their families.
It was great! I got to meet and cuddle up with my newest niece and play a lot of silly games with my other niece and nephews.

Yesterday was my get-back-in-the-groove day. I cleaned, did dishes, laundry and meal planned.

Yes, I am a meal planner.

I have a budget for groceries every week and I go into town to grocery shop once a week. (That is what my mother-in-law did and I adopted that idea also.)

As I was trying to think of ideas for meals this week, I decided to peruse our old issues of Everyday Food. ::sigh:: That was my favorite magazine, only the size of a Reader's Digest, with lots of delicious recipes on every page. I was so sad when they stopped printing it. Well, we have four years of back issues, so I pulled out all the Fall season issues and started flipping.

I was also keeping an eye out for a good cookie recipe since our jar was almost empty. I chose to make some Apple-Raisin Cookies from the October 2010 issue. (Let me preface that I did a food swap with our neighbor yesterday morning- his apples for our squash, so pretty much anything with apples is a go. We have A LOT of apples...)

These cookies are softer and more cake like, which I'm not a huge fan of, but I like these for something different. It may surprise some, but these don't have any cinnamon like every other apple recipe- only nutmeg and cloves.

Apple-Raisin Cookies

1 c. flour
1 c. whole wheat flour
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. nutmeg
1/2 t. salt
pinch of cloves
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 c. brown sugar
2 large eggs
3 T. milk
1 apple, peeled, cored and diced small
1 c. raisins
3/4 c. confectioners' sugar + 2 T. water, for the glaze

-Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients together.
-In a [stand] mixer, beat butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time.
-With mixer on low, add half of the flour mixture. Add the milk and then the rest of the flour mixture.
-With a spatula, fold in apples and raisins. Drop dough in 2 tablespoons mounds, about two inches apart, onto parchment lined baking sheets.
-Bake cookies for 14 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway through. Let cookies cool completely.
-In a small bowl, whisk sugar and water and drizzle over the cookies.
Makes about 26 cookies.



Now what to do with all the rest of the apples? <3