Apple Pie Bars Alongside Bourbon Caramel Sauce

There’s a brace of keen things keen virtually this recipe.  It tastes similar apple tree pie 🙂 as well as you lot tin triple the recipe as well as bake it inwards a 15×17 inch pan as well as convey plenty to serve a mob at your vacation table.  And don’t forget …  topped alongside H2O ice cream as well as a drizzle of bourbon caramel sauce as well as you lot convey a perfectly delicious grown-up dessert.  My traveling married adult man loved it as well as deemed it the most delicious Apple Pie Bars alongside Bourbon Caramel Sauce he’s e'er had!

A uncomplicated brusk breadstuff crust creates a overnice uncomplicated layer on the bottom.

 

Fresh sliced Granny Smith apples are cooked downward alongside butter, chocolate-brown sugar, cinnamon as well as nutmeg to brand a sweet, tender fruit layer.

 

If you’re serving adults, it won’t wound to add together a glug, swig, or splash of bourbon at this signal too.

 

Topped alongside a mixture of toasted walnuts, oats, flour, sugar, cinnamon as well as butter it’s ready to bake!  This recipe may hold out made a few days inwards advanced thence it saves fourth dimension too.  Store the bars inwards a airtight container at room temperature upwardly to 4 days.

 

The Bourbon Caramel Sauce tin also hold out made a few days ahead making this dessert perfect for your vacation table.

 

 

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Apple Pie Bars

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

40 mins

Total Time

40 mins

 

Apple pie inwards bar form! 

Course:

Dessert

Servings: 6 servings

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

For the crust:

• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter,
  room temperature
  


• 
  1/4
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  1
  cup
  all role flour
  


• 
  dash kosher salt
  

For the apple tree filling:

• 
  2
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter
  


• 
  3
  tablespoons
  light chocolate-brown sugar
  


• 
  4
  Granny Smith apples,
  peeled, cored as well as sliced thin
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  bourbon,
  optional
  


• 
  1
  teaspoon
  cinnamon
  


• 
  dash nutmeg
  


• 
  1/3
  cup
  water
  as needed
  

For the topping:

• 
  1/4
  cup
  walnuts,
  toasted & fossil oil chopped
  


• 
  1
  cup
  quick cooking oats
  


• 
  2/3
  cup
  all-purpose flour
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  light chocolate-brown sugar
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  cinnamon
  


• 
  1/8
  heaping teaspoon baking soda
  


• 
  1/8
  heaping teaspoon kosher salt
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  unsalted butter, cold,
  cut into 1/2 inch cubes
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line an 11x7-inch (or 9x9-inch) baking pan alongside parchment paper. Beat the butter as well as carbohydrate at medium speed of an electrical mixer until lite as well as fluffy. Slowly compaction inwards the flour as well as common salt until a soft dough forms. Press the dough into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes, or until the dough is laid exactly non brown.
   
   


2. 
   
   In a large skillet melt the butter as well as chocolate-brown sugar. Add the apples as well as cook, stirring occasionally, over medium high rut until softened. Stir the water, cinnamon as well as nutmeg into the apple tree mixture as well as ready about other v minutes or until the apples are caramelized, tender as well as the liquid is absorbed.
   
   


3. 
   
   Set aside to cool piece preparing the topping.
   
   


4. 
   
   In a medium mixing bowl combine the oats, flour, chocolate-brown sugar, cinnamon, soda as well as salt. Using a pastry blender or ii knives, cutting inwards the butter until the mixture resemble coarse meal. Stir inwards the walnuts as well as press the topping into clumps.
   
   


5. 
   
   Spread the apples over the crust as well as sprinkle alongside the topping. Press the topping downward into the apples to brand an fifty-fifty layer. Bake virtually twoscore minutes or until the topping is golden brown. Cool completely thence cutting into 2-inch bars.
   
   

Recipe Notes

recipe adapted from Food as well as Wine.

Triple the recipe as well as bake inwards a 15x17-inch pan.

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Bourbon Caramel Sauce

Prep Time

5 mins

Cook Time

15 mins

Total Time

20 mins

 

Luscious as well as rich alongside a overnice shine bourbon flavor

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  1
  cup
  granulated sugar
  


• 
  3
  tablespoons
  water
  


• 
  1/2
  cup
  heavy cream
  


• 
  1
  tablespoon
  bourbon
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  Fleur De Sel salt
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Combine the carbohydrate as well as H2O inwards a medium sauce pan. Heat over medium rut until the mixture begins to simmer. Swirl the pan exactly create non scrape the sides. Continue cooking until the caramel becomes a deep chocolate-brown amber color. Remove from the rut as well as add together the cream. Whisk taking tending non to scrape the sides of the pan. Add the bourbon as well as common salt as well as whisk until smooth. Cool as well as shop inwards an airtight container as well as refrigerate until ready to serve.
   
   

Recipe Notes

( Bourbon Caramel Sauce adapted from Williams-Sonoma)

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Have a keen week!  Thanks thence much for stopping by!

Tricia

Source: savingdessert.com