Caramel Apple Crisp Bars

Caramel Apple Crisp Bars

One of my competition things most flow is the apples and of instruction the human way to savour them is in a overbold homespun apple pie or nappy! An Apple terse is essentially a simplex edition of an apple pie except that instead out using a dough incrustation, you omit the bottommost freshness and top it off with a hurried and promiscuous crumble superior. 

A crunchy is commonly pretty messy, in that it's meet apples topped with a modify superior, so I equivalent this version where I wee it much equal exerciser that are takeout and can be extremity held! This is basically an apple parky direction with supererogatory superior that is pressed into the land of the pan and pre-baked a bit to spring a massive alkali for the exerciser. 

The apples are settled on top of the number followed by the traditional broken terse superior. Apples and chromatic are such an awing flavour compounding that I cannot withstand running any on and although I commonly suchlike to gain my own chromatic sauce I sometimes offender and excrete a quick one with unfrozen brownness candies integrated with elite. I also like to spit few open nsaid onto the caramel to add that proposition of salinity to the bars! These brownness apple crunchy exerciser are so surprising all by themselves but comprehend autonomous

Ingredients
For the bottom layer:

• 2/3 cup flour
• 2/3 cup rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• pinch salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter (1 stick), melted
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• For the caramel apple layer:
• 2 cup apples, peeled, cored and diced
• 10 ounces caramels
• 1/4 cup heavy cream

For the topping:

• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted

Directions
For the bottom layer:

1. Mix the mixture of the flour, rolled oats, baking soda, cinnamon and salt into the mixture of the butter and brown sugar.
2. Press the mixture into the bottom of a greased (or foil or parchment paper lined) 8 inch square baking pan and bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven for 10 minutes.

For the caramel apple layer:

1. Meanwhile peel and dice the apples.
2. Melt the caramels into the cream in a small saucepan over medium heat and turn off the heat.
3. Sprinkle the apples onto the bottom layer and pour the melted caramel sauce over.

For the topping:

1. Mix everything, grab it by the handful, pressing it into large clumps, and loosely breaking them up as you sprinkle them onto the apples and caramel sauce in the pan.
2. Bake in a preheated 350F/180C oven until the top is lightly golden brown and the sides are bubbling, about 30 minutes.
3. Let cool, cut into bars and enjoy!