A comforting apple bar with an easy crust, spiced apple filling and crumble topping.
Apple Bars
Ingredients
½ cup all-purpose flour
½ cup whole-wheat flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 pinch cloves (optional)
½ cup margarine or butter
3 cups sliced apples (about 2 apples, 3-inch diameter, peeled)
⅔ cup raisins
¼ cup sugar
Directions
- Wash hands with soap and water. Gather ingredients and cooking tools.
- Rinse or scrub fresh fruits under running water before preparing.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
- Mix flour, salt and baking soda together in a large bowl. Add brown sugar, oats, cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves, if desired.
- Cut in margarine or butter with a pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is crumbly.
- Spread half of the crumb mixture in the baking pan. Top with apple slices and raisins and sprinkle with sugar. Spread remaining crumb mixture evenly over apples.
- Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Cool and cut into 12 bars.
Notes
- Substitute ripe pears for apples.
- Serve warm topped with vanilla yogurt.
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Comments
I tried the Food Hero Apple Bar recipe today. It tasted yummy, but it was soft and crumbly, and spread out sort of flat, even after cooling them completely. They didn't really hold a bar shape - lots of straggly oats falling out of the mixture. I'm curious if adjusting the amount of oats, of fiddling with the ratio of dry ingredients to wet ingredients might help crisp them up?
I made these Apple Bars today they are delicious I recommend using more fruit than the recipe says and even cutting the pieces in half if preferred. I recommend this treat 100%
I made this recipe today and they did not set up as bars. More like a crumble. I followed recipe to a tee and baked for 40 min. The recipe resembled the Winter Fruit Crisp in crumbliness. Any suggestions?
Regardless, it was a HIT with the kids at the summer club I served it to.
These apple bars make a tasty treat. We have used pears and plums, too.