
How To Make Dutch Caramel Apple Pie Bars
A flaky crust with a spiced filling, these apple pie bars are comforting as they are luscious, especially with that drizzling of rich caramel sauce on top.
Serves:
Ingredients
For Crust Ingredients:
- 1½cupsall purpose flour
- ¾tspsalt
- ½cupunsalted butter
- 1largeegg,beaten
- 2tbspcold water
For Apple Filling Ingredients:
- 2tbspall purpose flour,unbleached
- ¾cupsugar
- ⅛tspnutmeg
- ½tspcinnamon
- ¼tspsalt
- 6cupsapples,peeled, cored, and diced
- 2tspvanilla extract
- ½cupheavy cream
For Crumb Topping Ingredients:
- 1½cupsall purpose flour,unbleached
- ¾cupsugar
- ¼tspsalt
- 1tspcinnamon
- ½cupunsalted butter,melted
- 1tspvanilla extract
For Caramel Topping:
- 1cupbrown sugar
- 4tbspbutter
- ½cuphalf and half
- 1tbspvanilla
- pinchsalt
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 425 degrees F and lightly grease a 13×9-inch pan.
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In a medium sized mixing bowl, whisk together the flour and salt; using a pastry blender, cut in the butter. Drizzle the beaten egg over the mixture and toss lightly to combine.
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Add the cold water 1 tablespoons at a time, stirring gently until the dough starts to clump together. Roll the dough into a generous rectangle to fit your pan. .
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Place the dough in the pan and prick it all over with a fork; bake it for 10 to 12 minutes, until it is set and barely starting to harden
Filling:
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Whisk the flour, sugar, spices, and salt together. Add in the apples, tossing to coat. Stir in the vanilla, then the cream, spread the filling over the crust.
Topping:
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In a mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt, and cinnamon.
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In another bowl, combine the melted butter and extracts; pout over the flour mixture.
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Stir until the butter is absorbed and the mixture forms fairly even crumbs and sprinkle over the filling.
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Bake for 15 minutes; decrease temperature to 350 degrees F; bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the topping is brown and the filling is bubbly.
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Remove from oven and cool on a rack; let them cool to lukewarm before cutting.
Caramel:
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Mix all ingredients in a medium saucepan over medium-low to medium heat. Cook while whisking gently for 5 to 7 minutes, until thicker. Turn off heat. Serve warm or refrigerate until cold. Drizzle on top of apple slab pie.
Nutrition
- Calories: 259.71kcal
- Fat: 12.42g
- Saturated Fat: 7.68g
- Trans Fat: 0.39g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 3.28g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.57g
- Carbohydrates: 35.26g
- Fiber: 1.18g
- Sugar: 21.72g
- Protein: 2.38g
- Cholesterol: 41.83mg
- Sodium: 205.69mg
- Calcium: 23.66mg
- Potassium: 73.20mg
- Iron: 0.90mg
- Vitamin A: 110.33µg
- Vitamin C: 1.34mg
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