I found another cute idea for sweet treats that's easy to do. It's not apple flavored. All you need is sugar cookie dough, red decorator sugar, a few chocolate chips and string licorice . This is from Pillsbury but you could use any sugar cookie dough homemade or from the store. After all you'll put it together so it will be "homemade"!
Apple Slices Cookies
Prep Time: 35 Min
Total Time: 1 Hr 5 Min
Makes: 32 cookies
INGREDIENTS
2 tablespoons red decorator sugar
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
2 tablespoons miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Black string licorice, cut into 1-inch pieces
DIRECTIONS
1 Heat oven to 350°F. Cut 17x12-inch piece of plastic wrap; place on work surface. Sprinkle red sugar evenly over plastic wrap. Roll cookie dough in sugar to coat. Wrap in plastic wrap; freeze 30 minutes. 2 Remove half of dough from wrapper; freeze remaining dough until needed. Cut dough into 1/4-inch slices. On ungreased cookie sheets, place slices 2 inches apart. Place 3 chocolate chips in center of each slice to resemble seeds. To form slice shape, make 2 indentations on 2 opposite sides with fingers. Repeat with remaining half of dough. 3 Bake 8 to 9 minutes or until unsugared edges are light golden brown. Insert 1 licorice piece on top of each cookie to resemble stem. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks.
Note: If you make your sugar dough from scratch you could add apple spice, clove, or cinnamon spice along with your vanilla flavoring.
