Combine the flour, white sugar, brown sugar and salt in a large bowl. Stir to combine.
Cut the room temperature butter into the flour mixture until you have coarse crumbs. I started cutting the butter into the flour with a pastry blender and finished cutting it in with my fingers. Rubbing the mixture between my fingers and thumbs until I had coarse crumbs.
Remove 1 cup of crumbs from the large bowl of crumbs, place the one cup of crumbs in another large bowl,add the cinnamon to it, stir to incorporate. Set it aside. You’ll be using it to coat the apples.
Grease a 13×9 inch baking pan. Place half the large batch of crumbs (about 4 cups) into the baking pan. Press onto the bottom of the baking pan to make a solid layer. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
While the bottom layer is baking, peel, core and cube the apples, sprinkle with 2 teaspoons lemon juice. Place in the bowl with the reserved 1 cup of crumbs, toss to coat.
Take the baking pan from the oven, place the apples on top of the baked bottom layer.
Sprinkle with the remaining 4 cups of crumbs. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes or until the crumble topping is golden brown and apples are tender.
Crumble the bars and top them with ice cream, excuse me while I go eat my bowl of Apple Crumble Bars with ice cream, Enjoy!
Apple Crumble Bars
Ingredients
- 4 cups flour
- 3 sticks butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups white sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon salt
- 6 cups apples cored, peeled and cubed
- 2 Teaspoons lemon juice
Instructions
- 1. Combine the flour, white sugar, brown sugar and salt in a large bowl. Stir to combine.
- 2. Cut the room temperature butter into the flour mixture until you have coarse crumbs. (I started cutting the butter into the flour with a pastry blender and finished cutting it in with my fingers. Rubbing the mixture between my fingers and thumbs.)
- 3. Remove 1 cup of crumbs from the large bowl of crumbs, place the one cup of crumbs in another large bowl,add the cinnamon to it, stir to incorporate. Set aside.
- 4. Grease a 13x9 inch baking pan. Place half the large batch of crumbs (about 4 cups) into the baking pan. Press onto the bottom of the baking pan to make a solid layer. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
- 5. While the bottom layer is baking, peel, core and cube the apples, sprinkle with 2 teaspoons lemon juice. Place in the bowl with the reserved 1 cup of crumbs, toss to coat.
- 6. Take the baking pan from the oven, place the apples on top of the baked bottom layer. Sprinkle with the remaining 4 cups of crumbs. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes or until the crumble topping is golden brown and apples are tender.
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Oh Bunny-do these ever look GOOD!!! With 3 sticks of butter, how in the world can you go wrong???? I’m with you-no such thing as too much crumb topping…the more the better! Have to go get a napkin to wipe off the drool!!!!!!! 🙂
The recipe sounds delicious. For some reason I’m not able to see the pictures.
Bunny those look soooooo good! My Todd would love these as apple anything is one of his favourite things to eat. I guess I am going to have to go out and buy me some apples!
i’m cuckoo for anything involving apples and cinnamon…and three sticks of butter. awesome. 🙂
Wow, I was browsing the foodie blog roll tonight and came across your fantastic blog! This recipe looks delicous! We eat alot of apples and I love finding new ways to use them!
Crumb topping is the best! Your topping is nice and thick too… wish I could’ve taken a bite of that.
Thanks so much for checking out my blog! Your apple crumb bars looks so tasty!
Oh my gosh. How good do these look? I’m a sucker for apple crumble stuff, too. Yum!
Oh wow this looks good and I’m really hungry so that’s not fair!
I’m back! Bunny, you tempt me so! I’ve got to make these this weekend. I know I’m supposed to be watching what I eat since I got back from vacation, but I can’t help myself. I just drooled all over my keyboard! I love apple pie, cobbler, applesauce….drooolllllllll