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 Apple Pie Cookie Cups are mouthwatering! I am so excited to make this for my family this coming weekend.
These apple pie cookie cups looks delicious great bite size snack I am going to give it a try.
Yes! All pies should come in bite-sized cups. I never eat a whole pie, but I would do my fair share to enjoy the little cookie cups!
These are so adorable! I love apples and I have a lot of them left! This will, be something different.