Reviewed: Jan. 14, 2012

These turned out great! Used whole wheat flour (added extra 1/2 cup), added applesauce as someone else suggested along with the juice, evap cane sugar and molasses rather than white sugar, left out the nuts (allergies) and added finely shredded carrots. Would be better with either nuts or toasted oats

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mishmash

Reviewed: Dec. 20, 2011

These are officially my favorite cookies ever. I am not overly fond of nuts in cookies so I omitted them and increased the apples and raisins each by 1/2 cup. I used coconut oil for the shortening. They are moist, soft, and chewy, and don't come out too flat but they aren't too poofy either. I think they're perfect. And best of all they're VEGAN! My best friend is vegan and she loves when I make these. :)

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Heather Landon

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Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Morganton, North Carolina, USA

Reviewed: Nov. 18, 2011

Great flavor but cookied don't mix well or look appetizing at all. They come out flat like silver dollars and are somewhat dry and fall apart very easily. Make sure you put a plate under your chin.

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CGUILLAU

Reviewed: Nov. 9, 2011

Interesting cookie with good flavor, but the consistency is not my favorite. A little too soft and doesn't seem to hold it's shape very well.

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aslack

Reviewed: Nov. 7, 2011

i followed the recipe but added 1 1/4 apples (2 small apples) and added 1/3c plus a couple tbsp of apple juice when mixing the wet and dry, much easier to use your hands. they fall flat when cooling but they taste good and the house smells amazing

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rbleitch

Reviewed: Oct. 29, 2011

Very good cookie. Although the recipe does not say where to add the apple juice. I added in with the brown sugar and shortening and this seemed to work well making the mixture a little more moist when adding in all of the dry ingredients.

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debparsons

Reviewed: Oct. 23, 2011

The taste is wonderful, but the texture is lacking. My cookies look nothing like the picture. They are extremely thin and spread out. Be careful while following directions, because no where do they tell you to add the apple juice.

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anners727

Reviewed: Oct. 10, 2011

Made these with my daughter today. They were super easy and super YUMMY!! If we had more of the ingredients on hand we would've tripled the recipe because we have sooo many apples! We didn't change anything other than using butter in place of the shortening and apple cider instead of juice because that's what we had in the house. Definitely a keeper!

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chickieboo

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Boonton, New Jersey, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 29, 2011

I don't understand how these are so highly rated. I follewed the instructions and am an avid baker. They fall apart. The flavor are there but the chemistry is all wrong and will not hold together.

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shannon

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: May 13, 2011

When I combined the sugar/shortening & dry ingredients together the batter was extremely dry and I could not imagine 1/3c of cider (I substituted juice for cider) making much difference. So I added 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce as per Betsy Crocker's review had suggested and used the electric mixer to completely combine everything. The batter was very sticky and moist. The cookies spread and thinned out a lot! I could only fit 12 per sheet. Being so thin I only baked for 9 mins. They were very soft and need to cool on the baking sheet for 4 mins before removing them. They taste delicious but are not the prettiest cookies. I will need to experiment a little more to get the consistency correct.

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