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Apple Streusel Bars

This dessert is like an apple pie crossed with a cookie. You get all the goodness of the apple pie only in a bar cookie version you can pick up with your hand. BONUS: you don't have to roll out any crust! Super easy right?
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours 15 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

CRUST
  • 1/2 cup butter melted
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup flour
FILLING
  • 2 apples granny smith
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp nutmeg
STREUSEL TOPPING
  • 1/2 cup old fashioned oats
  • 1/3 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup cold butter cubed

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9x9” pan with parchment paper to create a sling.
  2. Make the crust: stir the melted butter and vanilla together. Add the sugar, salt and flour and mix until everything comes together. Press into prepared pan and bake for 15 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, prepare filling and streusel topping: Peel, core and cut apples into 1/4” thick slices. Whisk flour, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg together. Sprinkle over apples and stir until apples are evenly coated.
  4. For the Streusel topping whisk the oats, brown sugar, cinnamon and flour together. Cut in the cold butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  5. When the crust comes out of the oven arrange apples over the hot crust, packing firmly. Sprinkle streusel topping over the apples then bake 30-35 minutes until golden brown.
  6. Cool for 20 minutes at room temperature then refrigerate for at least two hours. Once chilled use the parchment sling to lift out of the pan. Cut into 16 squares or 20 rectangular bars.