Salted Caramel Apple Bars made with Cake Mix
Make salted caramel apple bars with a boxed cake mix, oatmeal, and fresh apples. Top with caramel sauce and sea salt for a delicious apple dessert.
Ingredients
- 1 box 15.25 oz, cake mix (look for Caramel Apple in the fall or use a spice cake cake mix)
- 1 cup dry oats
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 stick 1/2 cup softened butter
- 1 egg
- 2 cups peeled and diced apples
- Caramel ice cream topping
- coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x9 or 7x11 baking pan. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk together the cake mix, oats and cinnamon. Mix well.
- Add butter and egg and mix with a fork to create a crumbly dough. Reserve 1 cup of mixture and set aside.
- Press remaining mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle apples on top of crust.
- Top with remaining dough, crumbling it on top of the apples.
- Return to oven and bake for an additional 20 minutes. When finished cooking, remove from oven.
- Drizzle caramel on top of bars and top with coarse sea salt. Cut into 8 squares and serve.