Since I started making these around ten years ago, I’ve received numerous requests for the recipe. Since they are simple to build and go away so rapidly, you might miss your chance if you don’t take one! Serve right away or put in the fridge. If bars are initially chilled, they cut more readily.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 2 dozen bars |
Ingredients
- 1 (18 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
- ⅔ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup cinnamon chips
- 2 large yellow apples, peeled and thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon sugar, or to taste
- ⅛ teaspoon ground nutmeg, or to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Press cookie dough into the bottom of a baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until light-golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.
- Mix cream cheese, brown sugar, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; fold in cinnamon chips. Spread cream cheese mixture over cooled cookie and layer with apple slices. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar and nutmeg over apple slice layer. Cut into squares.
- You may also top with chopped nuts or drizzle with melted caramel ice cream topping.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 219 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 27 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 157 mg |
| Sugars | 16 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
You can NOT have these cookie bars without the caramel drizzle. It’s a must as I was told by everyone. Really easy recipe. Everyone enjoyed these. My one child that can’t have apples liked the fact I left some bars apple free but sprinkled the spices on top and then drizzled the caramel on it. And the recipe is correct, when they disappeared, kids were like “where’d the go?!” because they wanted more. Super recipe.
Love this recipe! So easy to make. And you can change it up a little by adding chopped nuts. Delicious!