These cherry pie cookies combine two favorites. Cherry pie and cookies! They’re super simple to make with less than 5 ingredients and are super adorable! They’re basically mini individual hand pies that look like pies and yet are shaped like cookies. They make for an impressive dessert, even though they’re so simple.

There isn’t a whole lot that can be done to make these better-for-you other than using a lighter pie filling. You could even make your own pie filling and use that, but today I was keeping it simple so I personally opted out of that option.

You could really use any flavor of pie filling that you’d like to here. Cherry is a classic and one of my favorites though, so that’s why I went with it. making the lattice tops to the cookies is truly the hardest part of making these cookies, and even that isn’t too difficult.

I wove the dough strips and then pressed them together just enough so that the lattice would stay together once cut out with the cookie cutter.

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