Apple Cider Spice Cookies!
 
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Serves: 38-42 cookies
Ingredients
  • 2 cups A.P. flour
  • ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. cream of tartar
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • ½ tsp. cardamom
  • ¼ tsp. nutmeg
  • ⅛ tsp. ginger
  • ⅛ tsp. allspice
  • ⅓ cup cinnamon bits (can sub cinnamon cookie baking chips from Amazon, links above)
  • 1.5 sticks unsalted butter room temp
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp. of King Arthur Boiled Apple Cider (link above)
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper (two if you are making them all) and set aside.
  2. In a large mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients, spices and cinnamon chips and whisk to combine. Set aside.
  3. In the bowl of the stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugars together until lighter and fluffy, around 4-5 minutes. Add the egg yolks one at time and beat after each addition. Add the vanilla extract and boiled apple cider and mix to combine.
  4. Slowly add the dry ingredients with the mixer running on slow. Turn speed up to medium to fully combine until no flour bits remain, Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl.
  5. Lightly wet your hands with water to dampen so the dough doesn't stick. Using a tablespoon, spoon out about a heaping tablespoon full and roll into a ball. Place on the prepared baking sheet. Continue rolling the dough balls until all the dough is used up. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for 15 to 20 minutes. Place the dough balls you don't plan on baking into a freezer bag and back in the freezer for later use.
  6. Space the dough balls out on the sheet pan with parchment paper not too close together. Bake the cookies for 12 to 16 minutes. For softer cookies, bake closer to 12-13 minutes and for crispier cookies bake closer to 16 minutes. Remove from oven and let cookies cool on baking sheet on on cooling rack.
  7. Store cooled cookies at room temp in airtight container for up to 2 weeks. The frozen dough balls will last in the freezer for up to 6 months.
  8. Enjoy!
Recipe by Social Buttercream at http://socialbuttercream.com/2020/12/05/apple-cider-cinnamon-spice-cookies-sugar-spice-everything-nice/