Apple Pie Cookie Cups
Nov 18, 2020, Updated Mar 13, 2025
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If you are a fan of apple pie, you will love these Apple Pie Cookie Cups! Made with a cinnamon sugar cookie dough that is baked and formed into a cup and filled with a simple but delicious apple pie filling.
There is something so warm and comforting about an apple pie but sometimes you just don’t feel like making a big pie.
That’s where this amazing cookie cup recipe enters. Cute, individual apple pies that use a sugar cookie crust and cinnamon apple filling.
Ingredients needed
Apple pie filling
Apples – Use a firm apple like what you would use for baking. I like Granny Smith or Honeycrisp.
Lemon juice – This adds a little acidity and helps keep the apples fresh.
Butter, cinnamon and nutmeg
Sugar – Use granulated sugar like Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar.
Cornstarch – This helps thicken the sauce.
Cookie cups
Granulated sugar and brown sugar
Butter, vanilla extract, and egg
All-purpose flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and cornstarch
How to make apple pie cookie cups
- Start by making the cookie apple filling. Stir diced apples in with melted butter in a skillet over medium heat. Mix in spices, water and sugar. Stir for about 5 minutes or until apples start to soften.
- Mix in cornstarch and water to help thicken up the apple mixture. Let the apples cool while making the cookie cups.
- Cream together butter, sugar and brown sugar. Mix in vanilla and egg.
- Beat in dry ingredients until dough is formed.
- Spray a muffin pan with non-stick spray. Roll dough into 2-inch balls and place in each muffin cup. Press dough down to make a cup. Use the back of a spoon to help make a well.
- Bake cookies at 350 degrees. Remove from oven and let cool for 1-2 minutes. Use the back of a spoon of small glass to push down the well to form cookie cup.
- Fill each cup with apple pie mixture and serve.
Recipe tips
- Make sure to dice the apples small. Feel free to leave the skin on if you prefer.
- Let the butter soften at room temperature before making cookie dough.
- I find using the back of a cookie scoop, small glass or end of a wooden spoon helps to form well in cookie cup.
- Serve on their own with with a dollop of whipped cream or even a drizzle of caramel or butterscotch sauce.
How to store
These can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 2 days or in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
If you would like to freeze them, freeze just the cookie cups in an airtight container. Freeze for up to 3 months.
More cookie recipes
- Cranberry chocolate chip crunch cookies – Cookies filled with dried cranberries and chocolate chips.
- Butterscotch cookies – Classic cookies with tasty butterscotch flavor.
- Lemon butterball cookies – Melt in your mouth, lemon flavored cookies.
- Sour cream cookies – Soft, sugar cookies with a simple frosting.
- Eggnog cookie cups – Sugar cookie cups filled with a creamy eggnog pudding.
Apple Pie Cookie Cups
Ingredients
Cookie Cups
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, softened
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Apple Pie Filling
- 4 apples, peeled and diced into small cubes
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoons nutmeg
- ⅓ cup water
- 2 tablespoons water
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
Instructions
Apple Pie Filling
- Peel and chop apples. Pour lemon juice over apples and toss until coated.
- Warm a large skillet over medium heat. Add butter and cook until melted.
- Stir chopped apples, cinnamon, nutmeg,1/3 cup water and sugar with melted butter. Stir for 5 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water. Pour mixture over apples and continue to cook for another 3-4 minutes.
- Remove skillet from heat and let apples cool.
Cookie Cups
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cream butter in an electric mixer. Mix in sugar and brown sugar and beat until creamy, 4-5 minutes.
- Mix in the egg and vanilla.
- In a small bowl, whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon, corn starch, and baking soda.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture and mix until dough is formed.
- Coat muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Roll 2 tablespoons of dough into a ball shape. Press the dough into muffin cups. Press the center of the dough to form a cup shape.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes. Once baked, use the back of a spoon to press center of each cookie cup to form a well.
- Let the cookies completely cool before filling with the apple filling.
- Fill each cookie cup with cooked apples.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These look delicious. I’m going to have to make some of them. They’d be perfect for Thanksgiving too.
What a cute and of course, delicious idea. I’m def going to save your recipe for later.
Wow! These cookie cups look so good and tasty. The uniqueness of this recipe is one of a kind.
Sometimes I love solo cups too.. It’s just that, it adds a little more sweat. Hehe
I wish I had everything on hand to make this right now.
Oooh, now I want to make these for myself. My kids would love them too. YUM.
Very sweet recipe…not a fan of apple but i want to try it just to taste…this looks delicious
I agree,sometimes I want my pie to be not so big but indulging. This individual cups would definitely do the trick.
Yes, yes and yes. This is my kind of dessert! Easy, looks pretty and tastes delicious I’m sure too. Adding it to my recipe book!
This is such a great idea!! I pinned it! Totally making these soon!