Caramel and apples make a perfect match and putting the two together in bar form is no exception. Did you hear that? Bar form! Yes, that means you can pick these up and take a bite out of them. You can’t do that with apple crisp or apple pie! If you want to dress this dessert up even more, place it on a plate and top with some vanilla ice cream and dig in with a fork, but you don’t have to (unlike that pesky pie and crisp that everyone seems to think needs either ice cream or whipped cream)!
I want to know who said Thanksgiving dessert has to be pie? I think Caramel Apple Bars would be the perfect ending to the big turkey dinner. Save yourself the hassle of rolling crusts this year. 🙂
I use my yummy homemade caramel sauce. You’ll have about 1/2 cup leftover to top ice cream, drizzle into apple cider, or I suppose you could even drizzle each serving of these bars with even more caramel.
(And remember that fabulous apple pie ice cream recipe I posted a while back? You could easily substitute these bars for the pie!)
- 1¾ cups flour
- 1⅔ cups rolled oats
- 1½ cups brown sugar
- 14 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup caramel sauce
- 3 cups of diced peeled apples
- Combine oats, flour, sugar, soda, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Mix. Add in softened butter and stir until mixture comes together.
- Press a little over half (around 2½ cups) of the mixture into the bottom of a 9x13 inch pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and spread diced apples over the crust. Drizzle apples with caramel sauce and top with remaining oat mixture.
- Bake for 25 more minutes.
- Cool and cut into squares.
  
For another great fall dessert, check out this Pumpkin Cheesecake:
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Yum Yum Yum! I am pinning this for later so I can make it. Looks so good! Glad I found your blog at the Serving Joyfully link-up.
-Miranda at http://rahabtoriches.com/
Thanks, Miranda! I hope you enjoy these as much as we do. Thanks for pinning.
This looks scrumptious and I can’t wait to try it!!
Thanks, Judith! We love these bars. My sister had a dessert bar at her wedding in October and these made an appearance there. So good.
Yummy! Pinning it!
Thanks for pinning and commenting! We love these bars.
These look good and most of the ingredients I always have at home.
Thanks! They are really tasty. Love the caramel in them.
Thank you for posting to Motivation Monday!
These look amazing!! Thanks for sharing on this week’s Inspired By Me Mondays; hope you join us again this week! Rachael @ Diamonds in the Rough
Is that really 14 tablespoons of butter?
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look at it ha ha) it is! They definitely aren’t low but, but believe it or not that’s less butter than a lot of other caramel bar type of recipes call for. They are good though! 🙂
Oh to find a way for these to be healthier. They are absolutely scrumptious, but the carb count, if I ran it, would likely make me wish I were blind lol!
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Made these and they were delicious. I took t,hem to a work event and not one was left. The only complaint I have was that they were kind of crumbly and fell apart. Not sure what I did wrong. Any advice???
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This looks so good! What a great dessert to make when you’re not up for making an apple pie!
Thanks for sharing! Do they keep long?