Recipe Review: Caramel Apple Milky Way Cookies!

First of all, thank you pinterest for alerting me to the fact that Caramel Apple Milky Ways exist. Also, thank you Target for selling them :)

And thank you to pinterest and the domestic rebel for the recipe I'm reviewing today. 

I made these cookies last night. You can see my review at the end of this post. 

Caramel Apple Spice Milky Way Cookies 
(recipe adapted from www.thedomesticrebel.com)

What You Need:
1 box spice cake mix
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 medium gala apple, peeled and roughly diced
1 tsp cinnamon
About 20-24 Caramel Apple Milky Way candies, unwrapped
1/4 cup cinnamon sugar*

*to make my cinnamon sugar, I combined 1/4 cup sugar with a teaspoon of cinnamon at a time then shook in my little container until I got my desired color - I think I used about 2 teaspoons of cinnamon.)

~Ingredients ready to go ~

~Diced my apple!~

What to Do:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with silicone liner or spray lightly with cooking spray. (I used the cooking spray this time.) Set aside.

2. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, eggs and oil until blended. Stir in the apples and the teaspoon of cinnamon to combine.

3. Scoop out heaping Tablespoonfuls of dough and place it in your palm. Press an unwrapped candy in the center of the cookie dough ball and gently fold the dough around the candy to enclose it. Place the filled cookie dough on the baking sheets, 1-2″ apart. (At this point, I thought these were the hardest, messiest cookies to make ever. My "dough" was very slippery and sticky. I finally just plopped a scoop of the dough directly on the cookie sheet and set the candy on top and used a spoon to fold over the dough over the candy. This made my cookies a bit larger, so I only ended up with about 18 cookies.)

4. Sprinkle the dough balls with cinnamon sugar, then bake for approx. 8-10 minutes, rotating pans halfway through baking time to ensure even cooking. Allow to cool 5 minutes on the pan, then carefully transfer to wire racks to finish cooling. (In my oven, or maybe due to the size of the cookies, my cookies took upwards of 15-20 minutes to finish cooking completely).

5. These cookies can be stored airtight, at room temperature, up to 2 days.

~Smellin' good in the oven!~

~Deliciousness on a plate.~

Review: These were really easy to make, though I am not sure how I could make the dough less sticky and slippery during step 3. Joe said the house smelled like Christmas as they were cooking. They tasted great! (I think they were even better this afternoon!) I would totally make these again!

It is definitely fall and time to bake at the Gianino house!