Apple Pie Spice Bars

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fenway @Fenway

This bar is a super moist portable snack or dessert with a spiced apple pie flavor. Its full of apples with a slight toffee crunch on top. It is good for lunch boxes and to have on hand for desserts and snacking. They also freeze well.

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Ingredients

25 mins
  1. 2 cupall-purpose flour
  2. 2 cuplight brown sugar packef
  3. 1/2 cupcold unsalted butter ( 1 stick )
  4. 1large egg, beaten
  5. 1 cupsour cream
  6. 1 1/2 tspbaking soda
  7. 1/4 tspsalt
  8. 1 tspvanilla extract
  9. 1/2 tsppumpkin pie spice
  10. 1 tspground cinnamon
  11. 2 1/2 cuptart apples such as granny smith, peeled, cored and cut into small dice.
  12. 1 1/4 cuptoffee pieces, I use Heath bits

Cooking Instructions

25 mins
  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 350. Have a ungreased 9 by 13 inch baking pan ready.

  2. 2

    In a large bowl combine flour and sugar, cut in cold butter and mix to have a fine crumb mixture. This can be done with a few quick pulses in the food processor or with finger tips

  3. 3

    Remove 3/4 cup crumb mixture and pat in bottom of baking pan, it will be thin and dry, which is how it should be.

  4. 4

    Add sour cream, egg, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and vanilla to remaining crumb mix in bowl, mix in with a spoon until combined, fold in apples

  5. 5

    Drop mixture on top of crust in pan in even clumps, using an offset spatula or back of a spoon spread carefully over crust in even layer

  6. 6

    Sprinkle toffee pieces evenly over batter in pan.

  7. 7

    Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until golden brown.

  8. 8

    Cool completely on wire rack. Cut into bars.

  9. 9

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“Fenway” passed away on 2/3/2021. For the last year she tried to teach her husband of 42 years how to cook like her. Although I will never be as good of a cook as her she did pass on her passion for cooking. Therefore, I will attempt to carry on her legacy and maintain/update her site. My wife was a Registered Nurse, a licensed deep water aerobics instructor, a mother to our 2 children and a fantastic cook. We grew up in New England but have been fortunate to live all over the US. I am now retired, missing her terribly, but thankful for all the years we had together and all her cooking lessons.
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