Easy Apple Spice Fall Cake Bars Recipe

Easy Apple Spice Fall Cake Bars Recipe

34 min

With cinnamon, brown sugar, nutmeg, applesauce, and a deliciously sweet white sugar frosting, these Frosted Apple Spice Cake Bars are sure to be gobbled up quickly!

Ingredients

  • ¼ cupbutter or margarine (softened)
  • ⅝ cuplight brown sugar
  • 1egg
  • 1 cupapplesauce
  • 1 cupall-purpose flour
  • 1 tspbaking soda
  • 1 tspground cinnamon
  • ½ tspground nutmeg
  • ½ tspsalt
  • 1 cupconfectioners' sugar
  • 2 tbspbutter (softened)
  • 2 tspmilk
  • 1 tspvanilla extract
  • 1 cupconfectioners’ sugar
  • 2 tbspbutter
  • 2 tspmilk
  • 1 tspvanilla extract

Directions

Bars:

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350F. Spray an 8 x 8-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

  2. 2

    In a medium bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, and egg until smooth. Stir in applesauce.

  3. 3

    In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; stir into the applesauce mixture until well blended. Spread evenly into the prepared pan.

  4. 4

    Bake for 22 to 24 minutes or until edges is golden. Cool completely in the pan over a wire rack.

Icing:

  1. 1

    In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar and butter. Stir in milk and vanilla until smooth. Spread over cooled bars before cutting into squares.