Apple, cinnamon, and real caramels are all included in these caramel apple bars.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Additional Time: | 25 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 55 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 9×13-inch pan |
Ingredients
- 1 pastry for a 9-inch double-crust pie, divided
- 10 apples – peeled, cored, and sliced
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 10 individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
- 3 tablespoons butter, sliced
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar, or more as needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Cover the bottom of a 9×13-inch baking dish with pastry for 1 1/2 pie shells, cutting the pastry to fit and filling gaps as necessary.
- Stir apples, sugar, flour, and cinnamon together in a large bowl to coat the apple slices. Layer apple mixture over pie crust. Arrange caramels and butter slices on top of apple mixture.
- Cut remaining pie pastry into 1- to 2-inch pieces; arrange atop the caramels and butter.
- Bake in preheated oven until just beginning to brown, about 1 hour.
- Cool in baking dish on a wire rack for 30 minutes, cut into bars.
- Beat milk and confectioner’s sugar together in a small bowl; drizzle over bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 375 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 63 g |
| Cholesterol | 8 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 199 mg |
| Sugars | 43 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I scaled the recipe to 25 apples as that is what I had. I made 3 deep dish pies with it. I had 34 caramels, which I cut in half and divided among the 3 pies. I halved the sugar and used brown sugar instead of white. These pies will be a nice change from regular apple pie.
This is delicious and very easy and quick to make! I’m only giving it 4 stars because I thought it was too much sugar. Thankfully I only used 1 cup of sugar and it was plenty sweet! There is still the extra sweet with the caramels and glaze, so 1 cup of sugar is plenty if you use granny smith apples. If you used a slightly sweeter apple you might want to reduce the sugar to 3/4 cup. To combat the extra sweet I sprinkled a little sea salt over the top, it goes so well with the caramel! I also used 12 caramels in this as it covered a little more evenly in the pan. I will definitely make this again!