How To Make Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars
Have a delightful bite of these easy-to-make apple pie bars which offer a twist to the classic apple pie, drizzled with a homemade salted caramel glaze!
Serves:
Ingredients
For Shortbread Crust:
- ½cupunsalted butter,melted
- ¼cupgranulated sugar
- 1tsppure vanilla extract
- ¼tspsalt
- 1cupall-purpose flour,spoon and leveled
For Apple Filling:
- 2large apples,peeled, thinly sliced, ¼-inch thick
- 2tbspall-purpose flour
- 2tbspgranulated sugar
- 1tspground cinnamon
- ⅛tspground nutmeg
For Streusel:
- ½cupold-fashioned oats
- ⅓cuplight brown sugar,or dark brown sugar, packed
- ¼tspcinnamon,ground
- ¼cupall-purpose flour,spoon and leveled
- ¼cupunsalted butter,cold, cubed
- *salted caramel sauce,(see Recipe Notes for recipe)
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F. Line the bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper, leaving enough overhang on all sides. Set aside.
Crust:
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Stir the melted butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and salt together in a medium bowl. Add the flour and stir until everything is combined.
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Press the mixture evenly into the prepared baking pan.
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Bake for 15 minutes.
Apple Filling:
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Combine the sliced apples, flour, granulated sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a large bowl until all of the apples are evenly coated. Set aside.
Streusel:
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Whisk the oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and flour together in a medium bowl. Cut in the chilled butter with a pastry blender or 2 forks until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
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Remove the crust from the oven, and turn the oven up to 350 degrees F.
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Evenly layer the apples on top of the warm crust; layering them tightly and press them down to fit. Sprinkle the apple layer with streusel.
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Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until the streusel is golden brown.
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Remove from the oven and allow to cool for at least 20 minutes at room temperature, then chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours or overnight.
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Lift the foil or parchment out of the pan using the overhang on the sides and cut into bars. Cut them into 16 smaller bars, or into 12 larger bars.
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Once cut, drizzle some salted caramel sauce on top of each. Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
- *Check out this Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce Recipe to go with these bars!
- Make-Ahead and Freezing Instructions: The bars will stay fresh in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 3 days. The bars can be frozen for up to 3 months. Then, thaw overnight in the refrigerator before serving and drizzling with caramel.
- These apple pie bars can be enjoyed warm, at room temperature, or even cold.
Nutrition
- Calories: 170.13kcal
- Fat: 8.96g
- Saturated Fat: 5.52g
- Trans Fat: 0.35g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 2.30g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.44g
- Carbohydrates: 21.61g
- Fiber: 1.31g
- Sugar: 10.61g
- Protein: 1.63g
- Cholesterol: 22.88mg
- Sodium: 39.01mg
- Calcium: 11.69mg
- Potassium: 58.27mg
- Iron: 0.69mg
- Vitamin A: 73.65µg
- Vitamin C: 1.29mg
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