Caramel Apple Tree Oatmeal Cookie Bars

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Caramel Apple Tree Oatmeal Cookie Bars

Remember the Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies that I posted a pair of weeks ago? Well, those were the starting fourth dimension of my spiraling into autumn flavors! Ever since too then I haven't been able to resist the urge to give inward too starting fourth dimension baking amongst all of the comforting flavors of fall.

I fifty-fifty turned on my oven on a 97 score hateful solar daytime to brand these! Yeah, acre they were baking too the odor of apples, cinnamon, too nutmeg were wafting through the air, you lot could listen the piteous air conditioner moaning at me!

But it was worth it to brand these cookie bars that sense of savor similar apple tree pie! These bars are filled amongst chunks of apples, sweetness caramel, nutty oats, too my favorite spice. . .cinnamon!

Think of them equally portable apple tree pies to direct maintain amongst you lot for breakfast on the means to work! Or endure past times them amongst but about whipped cream too caramel for dessert! Oh, too if you lot unopen your eyes acre you're eating one, you lot may forget that it's inward the upper 90's amongst temperatures reaching into the 100's earlier it cools off again! Enjoy!

Caramel Apple Oatmeal Cookie Bars

Yield: 12 bars

Ingredients

5 tbsp butter, softened
1/3 C chocolate-brown sugar
1/4 C granulated saccharide substitute
2 tbsp manifestly Greek yogurt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 C + two tbsp all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour, divided
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 3/4 C quick (not instant) oats, divided
1/2 C apples, finely chopped
1/2 C reduced-calorie caramel topping

Directions

Preheat oven to 350. Spray an 8x8 baking dish amongst non-stick cooking spray.
In the bowl of a stand upwardly mixer, cream together butter too sugars on medium speed. Add inward yogurt, egg, too vanilla. Beat until creamy.
In a pocket-size bowl, stir together 3/4 loving cup flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, too nutmeg. Add to creamed butter mixture. Beat until well-combined. Stir inward 1 1/2 cups oats.
Press one-half of the cookie dough into the bottom of the baking dish. Bake for 10 minutes too remove.
Sprinkle apples over the crust. Combine caramel too remaining two tablespoons flour. Spread caramel over the endure past times of the apples. Stir remaining 1/4 loving cup oats into the remaining dough too spread over the apples.
Return to oven too bake for but about other 20-25 minutes or until low-cal golden brown. Do non overbake. Cool for thirty minutes. Place bars inward the fridge too cool for 1 hr earlier cutting into squares.
Store leftovers inward an airtight container.