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Recipes · October 5, 2024

Easy Applesauce Bars Recipe

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Y’all know I am all about some apple recipes here lately. From my homemade cinnamon applesauce recipe, to my apple butter cookies recipe too! I’ve just been having too much fun cooking with apples in my kitchen this season! So today I figured I would share with you all my easy applesauce bars recipe I made the last weekend.

These delicious bars are a perfect fall treat. And they pair nicely with a good cup of coffee too! So whether you’re looking for an afternoon snack or dessert, these bars will do the trick!

Keep on reading to see just how easy this simple recipe is to make!

Applesauce Bar

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Ingredients Needed For Applesauce Bars

For this recipe, you will not only be making the bars themselves, but a yummy and crumbly cinnamon spice mixture to sprinkle on top before baking!

You also may be wondering what kind of applesauce should I use for these bars? If you don’t want your bars overly sweet, you can definitely use unsweetened applesauce for this recipe.

Especially since you will already be adding in sugar to the applesauce mixture itself. However, I just had the frozen jars of homemade applesauce I made a few weeks ago.

And they were already sweetened. But, it didn’t make the bars overly sweet in my opinion. I thought they were just rich! 

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For The Applesauce Filling:

  • 1/4 cup butter softened to room temperature 
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt 
Finished Applesauce Bar

For The Cinnamon Spice Crumble: 

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tablespoon flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 tablespoon butter
Cinnamon Sugar Topping
Close up of the delicious cinnamon sugar topping!

How To Make Applesauce Bars

Now that you have all your ingredients ready, you can begin to make these yummy bars! First, pre heat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 8×8 square baking pan with cooking spray.

In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt. Set aside these dry ingredients. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter, sugar, egg, and applesauce.

Making Applesauce Bars

Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and combine well at medium speed. Remove bowl from stand mixer and pour mixture into baking dish and smooth out the top with the back of a spoon.

To make the cinnamon spice mixture, mix together the sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter in a small bowl until it becomes soft and crumbly.

Applesauce Bars Crumble Mixture

This gives the bars just the right amount of spice on top! Sprinkle mixture on top of bars. Bake in preheated oven fro 30-35 minutes, or until bars become a nice golden brown color.

Just be sure that the center of the bars are completely done when baking. It may take a little longer depending on your oven. Mine came out slightly doughy in the center, so just be aware you may need to bake a tad longer if you want to avoid that.

Applesauce Bars Batter

For best results, check the center of the bars with a toothpick to make sure they are completely done. However, I love anything and everything doughy so it didn’t bother me at all!

Store cooled bars at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days and enjoy!

Before Baking Applesauce Bars

Enjoy These Applesauce Spice Bars

If you love applesauce recipes like I do, then you will love these old fashioned applesauce bars! It’s a lot less work than a homemade apple pie, but this easy recipe makes for a perfect sweet treat filled with fall flavors!

Applesauce Bar Recipe

And they are made with super simple ingredients, all of which you probably already have in your pantry now! Be sure to save this recipe card below for future use.

I know you will want to make these bars again and again! If you make them too, let me know how they turned out for you! I’d love to know how you liked them! 

Easy Applesauce Bars Recipe
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Applesauce Bars

Easy Applesauce Bars

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Ingredients
  

For The Applesauce Bars:

  • 1/4 cup butter  softened
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup applesauce
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

For The Cinnamon Spice Mixture:

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp butter

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 8×8 baking pan with cooking spray.
  • Sift together all the dry ingredients (flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and salt) listed above into a large mixing bowl. Set aside.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter, sugar, egg, and applesauce.
  • Add the dry ingredients into the mixture and combine well.
  • Pour mixture into prepared baking dish.
  • Make the cinnamon spice mixture by combining all the ingredients listed above (brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter).
  • Sprinkle mixture on top of batter and place into preheated oven.
  • Bake for 30-35 minutes until center of bars are completely baked and golden brown in color.
  • Let bars cool for 15 minutes before enjoying.
  • Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days after baking!

And if you’re looking for some more yummy apple recipes, I will link them below for you too:

  • Apple Cinnamon Swirl Bread
  • Easy Apple Dumplings
  • German Apple Pie
  • Fresh Apple Walnut Cake With Caramel Glaze
  • Starbucks Caramel Apple Spice Copycat Recipe
  • Apple Butter Thumbprint Cookies

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  1. Molly | Transatlantic Notes says

    October 10, 2024 at 11:05 am

    4 stars
    These bars sound perfect to have on a cozy fall late morning with a nice cup of coffee. They look and sound delicious!

    Reply
    • Charity Gentry says

      November 26, 2024 at 11:41 pm

      Thank you! They sure are yummy!

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