Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bars
Salted caramel apple pie bars are soft oat bars with a gooey apple pie filling. The buttery crust and topping are made from the same mixture. They're drizzled with salted caramel sauce!
Ingredients
- 3 mediumapples (or 2 large, peeled, cored, thinly sliced into 1/8 to 1/4 inch slices, about 360 grams )
- 2 tablespoonsall purpose flour
- 2 ½ tablespoonslight brown sugar (packed)
- 1 tablespoonlemon juice
- 1 teaspoonlemon zest
- 1 ¼ teaspoonscinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoonnutmeg
- ⅛ teaspoonallspice
- 1 pinchsalt
- ¾ cupall purpose flour
- 1 ⅓ cupsold fashioned oats (or quick cooking oats (not instant))
- ½ teaspooncinnamon
- ½ teaspoonbaking powder
- ¼ teaspoonsalt
- ⅝ cuplight brown sugar
- 10 tablespoonsunsalted butter (room temperature)
- salted caramel sauce (for topping, use store bought or homemade (see notes section below for homemade recipe))
Directions
Apple pie filling
- 1
Preheat oven to 350℉. Butter an 8-inch square pan. Line the pan with a large strip of parchment paper. Leave an overhang on both sides of the parchment paper.
- 2
In a medium bowl, combine the apples with the rest of the apple filling ingredients. Stir gently with a spatula til mixture is well combined and the apple slices are all coated with the mixture. Set aside.
Crust and topping
- 1
In a large bowl, stir to combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, cinnamon salt and baking powder.
- 2
Add the cubed butter. Stir or mix together with your hands.
- 3
Spoon half of the mixture into the pan. Press it firmly in the bottom of the pan.
- 4
Spread the apple filling over the crisp layer. Sprinkle the remainder of the crisp topping over the apple layer. Press lightly to make sure it's in place.
- 5
Bake 30-35 minutes or until the top is golden brown.
- 6
Place the pan on a wire rack. Allow to cool completely, for at least 4 hours or overnight.
- 7
Cut into squares. Drizzle each square with homemade or storebought salted caramel sauce. Enjoy!