Easiest Apple Bars Recipe (Beginner-Friendly Fall Recipe)
Apple Bars are the perfect treat for fall and the holidays, and this recipe is the easiest and tastiest one you'll ever try featuring pantry-staple ingredients!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Apple Bars Recipe, cinnamon apple bars
Prep Time 25 minutesminutes
Cook Time 45 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour10 minutesminutes
Servings 12bars
Author Valya's Taste of Home
Ingredients
Apple Bars Batter Crust Ingredients
2sticks – unsalted butter softened
⅓cup– brown sugar
1tsp.– pure vanilla extract
2cups– all-purpose flour
1tbsp.– cornstarch
¼tsp.– baking powder
⅛tsp.– salt
Cinnamon Apple BarsFilling Ingredients
6small – granny smith apples
⅓cup– organic sugar
¼cup– all-purpose flour
1tbsp.– cinnamon
½tsp.– salt
1tbsp.– lemon juice
Instructions
How to Make Apple Bar Batter
Start by placing the flour, baking powder, cornstarch, and salt into a small bowl.
Stir it with a whisk until it is all incorporated. Set aside for now.
Next, in a medium bowl beat softened butter and brown sugar on high for 5 minutes, scraping the mixer bowl in between a couple of times.
Add vanilla and mix for another minute or until it's all mixed well.
Next, add the flour mixture and stir it in on low for 3 minutes or until it's all combined and the dough has formed.
Remove the dough from a mixer bowl into a plate, and form a dough ball.
Cut ¼ off from the dough ball. Wrap it into a food plastic wrap and place the small dough piece into the freezer.
How to Make Apple Bars Filling
Time to make our apple filling! Into a small bowl add flour, cinnamon, flour, and salt, and stir it all together with a hand whisker. Set aside for now.
Next, wash and peel apples.
Chop apples into small pieces into a large bowl. I used an onion chopper to make things super fast and easy!
Add the flour mixture to the apples, and mix it well. Add lemon juice and stir it once more until it's all mixed well together.
How to Assemble and Bake Apple Bars
Let's put it all together and bake our apple bars!
To do this, start by pinching off small pieces from the rest of the dough and dropping them onto the prepared pan. To prepare a baking pan, grease it with butter and line it with parchment paper.
Push the dough into the baking pan with your hand to form an even layer of dough. Add apple mixture and spread it out evenly.
Shred the frozen piece of dough on top of the apples. Spread it out evenly with a fork.
Bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes at 350 F. Remove from the oven and let it cool in the pan.
Remove from the pan and slice it into 12 even bars.
You can dust it with some confectioner's sugar, drizzle some caramel sauce, or serve it with a scoop of ice cream.