I made Apple Pie Crumb Bars, because I couldn't decide if I wanted an Apple Pie or Crisp. I love the crumbly top and bottom crust with the tart, sweet, cinnamony apple filling.
Apple Pie Crumb Bars are an easy to make hybrid of the two and perfect for a crowd! They have plenty of crumb for all my crumb lovers out there with plenty of apple filling!
Lorna and I made 2 pans of these Apple Pie Crumb Bars so we had a pan to share and a pan for home because they never last long in our house.
I also highly suggest a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream because there's nothing better in life then appley, cinnamony, crumbly goodness with a good old scoop of vanilla.
I just happened to accidentally leave the vanilla ice cream out the night before so we had to enjoy our Apple Pie Crumb Bars at home without it but they were still amazing.
You really can't go wrong with these.
In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment mix together:
- 2 1/3 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 2 1/3 cup Oatmeal
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon
Add 1 cup Cold Cubed Butter on medium-low speed, until well combined, and crumbly.
Mixture will look like this.
Butter a 9"x13" pan. For easier removal line buttered pan with parchment paper and butter parchment paper.
Press half of crumb mixture into the bottom of prepared pan.
Stir together:
- 7 cups Granny Smith Apples Peeled, Cored, and Sliced
- 1/3 cup Brown Sugar
- 3 tablespoons All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
Spread apples evenly over crust, and cover with remaining half of crumb mixture. Press crumbs between fingers while distributing to form large crumbles.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 50-55 minutes until Apple Pie Crumb Bars are lightly brown, and apples are desired doneness when poked with a skewer.
A few other recipes that use apples are:
- Best Apple Crisp
- Caramel Apple Cobbler
- Caramel Apple Cake
- Apple Coffeecake
- Apple Dumplings in Caramel Syrup
- Caramel Apple Pie
Yield: 15
Apple Pie Crumb Bars
Apple Pie Crumb Bars are the perfect hybrid of Apple Pie and Apple Crisp plus easy to make. A great alternative to pie for Thanksgiving and Christmas from Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch.
Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 50 MinTotal time: 1 H & 5 M
Ingredients
Apple Filling
- 7 cups Granny Smith Apples, Peeled, Cored and Sliced
- 1/3 cup Brown Sugar
- 3 tablespoons All-Purpose Flour or Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
- 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice
Crumb Crust and Topping
- 2 1/3 cup All-Purpose or Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
- 2 1/3 cup Oatmeal
- 1 cup Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoon Cinnamon, Ground
- 1 cup Cold Butter, Cubed
Instructions
Apple Filling
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9"x13" pan. For easy removal line pan with parchment paper and butter parchment paper. Set pan aside.
Crumb Crust and Topping
- In a large bowl stir apples, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and lemon juice together, until well combined.
- In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment stir together on low speed flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt and cinnamon, until well combined. Add butter, and mix on medium-low speed, until well combined and crumbly.
- Press half of the crumb mixture into prepared pan. Cover with apple filling. Press remaining crumb mixture between fingers to form large crumbs, and spread evenly over apples.
- Bake Apple Pie Crumb Bars for 50-55 minutes, until lightly brown, and apples are desired tenderness when poked with a skewer.
- Allow bars to cool until just warm before slicing.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
369.66Fat
13.20 gSat. Fat
7.93 gCarbs
60.34 gFiber
3.87 gNet carbs
56.47 gSugar
34.10 gProtein
4.38 gSodium
310.35 mgCholesterol
32.54 mgThe nutritional information and metric conversions are calculated automatically. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data. If this important to you, please verify with your favourite nutrition calculator and/or metric conversion tool.
©2015 Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch
8 comments
Do you deliver? My word these look delicious!
These look great - moist and crumbly at the same time!
Just made these Apple Pie Crumb Bars...they are better then described ... They came out gorgeous, perfectly crispy with delicious apples perfectly cooked...baked just at 45 minutes in my counter top oven... This is a keeper recipe! Perfect for Fall...
Ahhhhh - these just look so ridiculously good. Not ashamed to admit I'm kind of drooling.
I just made this and noticed that the top ingredients calls for 2 1/3 cups oatmeal but the lower ingredients calls for only 2 cups… I used 2 1/3 cups before I noticed the difference.. which one is it? Can you please update this recipe? Thank you , by the way it smells delicious!!
Hi! It's 2 1/3 cup Oatmeal! I'm sorry for the confusion! I must have lose the 3rd when I moved the recipe to a printable template! Thanks, Serena
I decided to try this using gluten free flour and no oatmeal as I didn't have enough, serving it with van ice cream hope it comes out ok
I made this at Christmas and it was everyone's favorite. It was easy to make and was absolutely delicious! My son has requested that I make it for him again.
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