This tasty snack bar with caramel apples and a dash of salt is perfect for a coffee break treat.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup confectioners’ sugar
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 1 cup Mott’s® Original or Cinnamon Applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup chopped dried apples
- 1 cup caramel bits*
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅛ teaspoon coarse sea salt, or to taste**
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 9-inch square pan.
- Combine flour, confectioners’ sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl.
- Cream butter in separate large bowl. Beat in egg, applesauce, and vanilla extract.
- Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Stir to combine. Add diced apples, caramel bits and walnuts; blend in thoroughly. Pour into greased pan and distribute evenly.
- Combine granulated sugar, cinnamon and sea salt for the topping. Sprinkle evenly on top of the batter.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes.
- Cool completely and cut into 16 bars.
- *You can substitute 25 regular unwrapped caramels but into 6 to 8 pieces each for 1 cup caramel bits.
- **Taste the topping mixture before topping the batter to determine how much salt you prefer.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 271 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 37 g |
| Cholesterol | 27 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 5 g |
| Sodium | 147 mg |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Fat | 13 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Take my recipe with a grain of salt because I made some big changes: Used ½ tsp nutmeg instead of only a pinch in the batter, 1 C dried apples, 3.5 oz of caramels (guessing about 1/3 – 1/2 C), omitted nuts and topping. It was bland. Glad I added the nutmeg for at least some flavor. And glad I reduced the caramel because there was plenty at 3.5 oz. I C would have been way too much caramel.