It is superior to apple pie and may be heated up. When offered alongside other bar cookies, these disappear pretty quickly.
| Prep Time: | 30 mins |
| Cook Time: | 50 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 20 mins |
| Servings: | 36 |
| Yield: | 3 dozen |
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter
- 1 egg yolk
- ⅔ cup cold water
- 1 cup cornflakes cereal
- 10 apples – peeled, cored and sliced
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ cup confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon milk
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. In a cup, beat egg yolk, stir the cold water into the yolk. Gradually stir the egg mixture into the flour mixture until dough can be packed into a ball. On a clean dry surface, roll out 1/2 of the dough large enough to cover the bottom and sides of a 9×13 inch pan. Lay the dough in the pan.
- Place the cornflakes over the dough in the pan. Arrange apple slices over the top of the corn flake layer. Sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon over the apples. Roll out the second half of the dough to cover the entire pan. Lay over the filling and pinch the edges of the two crusts together. Beat the egg white until foamy, and brush onto the top crust.
- Bake for 45 to 50 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Drizzle with glaze while still warm.
- To make the glaze: In a small bowl, beat the confectioners’ sugar with the milk and almond extract until smooth.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 124 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Cholesterol | 19 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 108 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Delicious sweet twist from apple pie… I needed more dough for the top. The other ingredients were perfect. Used vanilla instead of almond for the glaze. Definitely will bake these again!
Delicious. Rave reviews in my household.
This was a great potluck dessert. The crust came out perfect for me. However, I did refrigerate the dough for a half hour before rolling it out. And the last thing I change was the sugar glaze, I made a caramel sauce in stead and placed it on the side as an option.
Pretty good recipe but the recipe didn’t really make enough dough for both bottom and top! Had to make half of dough part of recipe to get enough crust. I think a crust recipe with some lard or Crisco would make a better more flaky pastry too!
Instead of water use buttermilk. Instead of cornflakes use crushed vanilla wafer cookies.
Used info from previous reviews re: the amount of liquid. Very good.
I love this recipe! I’ve made a version of this same recipe in which I put a almond glaze on top of 2 T powder sugar 1 tsp milk and 1tsp almond extract.
Just like to apple bars my Grandma always made. I always use more corn flakes than called for. I find the crust doesn’t get soggy then.
I read all the reviews and combined them which my Danish husband said was the best Danish he ever tasted! So here is what I did. 1. I sliced the apples, stirred through 2 dsp brown sugar and spices and let them drain in a sieve for a few hours (because I had the time) and it was amazing to see the amount of liquid that came out. 2. I reserved this liquid and it went towards the combined water and egg yolk which I limited to 2/3 cup as suggested by many readers. I topped it up to the 2/3 mark with milk not water 3. I used oatmeal instead of cornflakes to lay over the base pastry, in order to soak up any extra juices and keep the pastry firm, not soggy. 4. I also stirred through 2 tsp cornflour through the apple mix in the sieve after they had drained to combat sogginess. 5. I only used 1/2 cup sugar plus the 2 dsp brown sugar that I stirred through the apples to help them weep. 6. I made 1.5 times the amount of pie crust and made sure to fold up the sides of the base a little, to hold in the filling. 7. I did not really think the egg white on top looked nice at all. I brushed with milk second time round. 8. I rolled out the pastry on the baking mat to be able to lift into the tin easily and then decided just to bake it on the silicone mat inside the tin. It worked brilliantly and was so easy to lift out. I hope this helps. The pastry was to die for. No sogginess and the flavour just got better a few days later. Luckily we made plenty! We ate it hot, we ate it cold.
I made several changes previously suggested and it worked out beautifully. I used milk instead of water and measured the yolk and milk to equal 1/2 cup (and I did not use the full 1/2 cup, but the dough was moist but not sticky). I chilled the dough for 30 minutes before rolling it out. It made it easy to work with it. Rolling it out on a lightly floured surface. Someone suggested to roll out the dough on a lightly floured silicone pastry mat and then flip it into the pan – this worked beautifully as it is thin and with the butter, even with chilling, had a tendency to stick a bit. I like the flavor of almond and noticed almond extract was used in the icing. I decided to try something I had been considering ever since I saw it at the grocery store. Because we have an apple tree, which is why I chose an apple recipe in the first place, but my family was getting tired of typical apple/cinnamon desserts, I bought a can of Solo brand Almond cake and pastry filling. It tastes like the filling in almond kringle. Instead of sugar & cinnamon sprinkled over the apples, I used a butter knife and laid/spread the almond filling over the apples (NO ADDITIONAL SUGAR AND NO CINNAMON). It was EXQUISITE!! My whole family loved it! Now I am making the same dessert for the football team at our high school!
I loved this but as usual I struggle with pastry dough…made it twice so far with differing results. I am determined to get this right! It has always been delish!
Very simple, tastes like pie. TO save a few calories you can skip the glaze, it’s good either way. I made mine in a stoneware pan and the crust gets very nice. I also sprinkle a bit of cinnamon and sugar mised on the top crust.
Better than apple pie. I have made these bars exactly as written, and I have also made them replacing the milk in the icing with lemon juice…gives them a nice bit of acidity to play off the sweet.
This is going to annoy those who rate recipes after making changes but like others, I used milk and egg yolk to make 2/3 cup for the crust. I used a 7″ x 11″ and the crust fit great. I used Golden Crisco in the crust. I used 2 golden delicious apples and 3 gala and they held their space and didn’t turn to applesauce. I used oatmeal instead of cornflakes and you can’t tell it’s even there. I used the same amount of sugar / cinnamon even though I used less apples. I know I made many changes (different size pan, shortening, less apples, milk, oatmeal and less luquid) but after learning from other’s mistakes or tips, I’m glad I made the changes I did and enjoyed this dish.
wonderful recipe!! Family loved it!! I barely had enough crust, so I think next time I wil 1 1/2 times the crust ingredients. Otherwise everything was perfect!!Thank you for a great recipe!! I’ve never been good at rolling out crust…but I am determined to conquer! lol
The flavor of these were really good, but require quite a few adjustments so I only gave 2 stars. I bought 10 granny smith apples for this and was skeptical because it seemed like a lot, but the reviews said the same thing but they said it turned out great because they bake down. I started piling these sliced apple pieces in and I ended using about half and it still was way too much. It ended up more like a hand-held pie than a bar. I added some brown sugar to the crust and it was great. I also doubled the glaze, and I’m not a glaze person, but it was good, and even doubled it is very thin over the pan. Again, the flavor was good, but I was expecting and wanting more of an apple cookie bar that could be cut very pretty to serve, and it was more like a cut up pie – and this was with half the apples used! Also have to be served same day, the crust was pretty soggy the day after.
I have made this recipe for 30 years and always gets rave reviews. My son requested this every year for his birthday. It was not his birthday unless he got his apple bars. It is a great fall treat. I like to put on a caramel frosting on this but the powdered sugar frosting if fine also.
I thought this was good, but nothing like the other reviews made it out to be.
I made this yesterday using pears instead of apples. It is wonderful. I accidentally reduced the sugar to 1/2 cup, but it was still great. Definitely will be one my regular favorites list!
Really yummy! Used a mixture of apples which made it even better, they boiled down well when they cooked. Icing kinda blobbed together, next time will make it a bit thicker.
One complaint: There needs to be more dough crust. After I divided the dough and rolled it out, I didn’t have enough to comfortably fill the bottom crust or top. The top ended up spotty. Also, I wish I had seen in the directions before hand that egg white is needed, because once I got the egg yolk prepared I threw the egg white out because it wasn’t listed in the ingredient list. Had to crack another egg (no big deal, but still). Other than my complaining, the desert was wonderful!! Keeper!