Easy Caramel Apple Bars
Easy Caramel Apple Bars come together in 15 minutes and bakes in about 20.The hardest part is waiting for them to cool long enough to cut!
Servings: 24
Equipment
- oven
Ingredients
- 1 stick cold butter, cut into cubes
- 1 package (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ oatmeal cookie mix
- 1 large egg
- 1 1/2 cups finely chopped, peeled Granny Smith Apple
- 3/4 cup caramel topping (such as Smucker's)
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup pecans, chopped
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Line entire 11 x 7-inch pan with parchment paper or foil, extending parchment/foil over edges of pan. Coat with nonstick cooking spray.
- In large bowl, cut butter into cookie mix using fork or pastry blender. Stir in egg until mixture is crumbly.
- Reserve 1 1/2 cups cookie mixture.
- Press remaining cookie mixture into bottom of pan. Bake 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle apple evenly over crust.
- In small bowl, mix caramel topping and flour; drizzle over apples.
- To reserved cookie mixture, stir in pecans and sprinkle mixture over apples.
- Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
- Cool and then refrigerate several hours for easier cutting. When ready to cut lift parchment/foil by edges to remove from pan and cut into individual bars.
- Store in refrigerator using parchment/wax paper to keep bar layers separated.