If you love caramel apples and apple pie, these bar cookies are for you! Once cooled, drizzle with your favorite caramel sauce.
Ingredients
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- unsalted butter: 1 cup
- white sugar: 0.75 cup
- egg: 1 piece
- baking powder: 1 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- unsalted butter: 3 Tbsp
- Granny Smith apples: 5 piece (diced)
- brown sugar: 0.5 cup
- white sugar: 0.5 cup
- ground cinnamon: 2 tsp
- nutmeg: 0.25 tsp (grated)
- pinch salt: 1 piece
- cornstarch: 1 Tbsp (or as needed)
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x13-inch baking pan with parchment paper.
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Combine flour, 1 cup butter, 3/4 cup white sugar, egg, baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a food processor; pulse until crumbled and easily formed into dough when pinched. Pour 3/4 of the dough into the prepared pan; press down with your hands until crust is even and well-packed.
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Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add apples, brown sugar, 1/2 cup white sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt; cook and stir until apples are softened, about 5 minutes. Stir in cornstarch; mix, adding more cornstarch if needed, until liquid has thickened.
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Pour caramel-apple mixture onto crust; smooth with a spatula until even. Crumble remaining dough on top.
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Bake in the preheated oven until top is golden brown, 30 to 40 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes; cut into bars.
