Apple Pie Bars Recipe

Apple Pie Bars Recipe:

15 x 12 x 1 jelly roll pan. Oven preheated to 375 degrees.

This recipe originally comes from Taste of Home, but I think there just wasn't enough crust to completely cover the top. SO, I increased all the crust ingredients by 1/4 (reflected in the recipe below.)

Crust Ingredients:

5 c. all-purpose flour 
1 1/4 t. salt
1 1/4 t. baking powder
1 1/4c. shortening
5 egg yolks
2 1/2 T. lemon juice
10-12 T. cold water

Filling:
7 c. finely chopped peeled apples (McIntosh, preferably!)
2 c. sugar
1/4 c. all-purpose flour
2 t. ground cinnamon
Dash nutmeg

In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in shortening until mixture if very fine crumbs. (I used my KitchenAid food processor and pulsed it about 20 times. Perfect!)

In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks, lemon juice and water; gradually add to flour mixture, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide in half. Chill for 30 minutes.

Roll out half the dough and place in bottom and sides of jelly roll pan.

In large bowl, toss the apples, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Spread over crust. Roll out remaining dough and lay it over top of apples. Crimp edges, cut slits in top.

Bake at 375 for 45-50 minutes or until golden brown and you see bubbling apple juice coming out of the slits. Remove from oven. Cool on wire rack.

Opinion:  These were delicious!! I loved having the egg yolk in the crust, and I think the apples make the pie, so I'd recommend McIntosh. Of course, I'm slightly partial to our little McIntosh tree in the back yard!

One more thing:  Apple pie, the round version, is lots easier because you have a smaller amount of dough to work with at a time, especially the part where you have to lift it from the counter and move it over to cover the apples. Trying to lift and move a 17 x 12 inch rectangle of dough without tearing it is nearly impossible (in my experience.)

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Round pie: Easier, not necessarily prettier. I guess I could carve a nice design in the crust, rather than just poking slits. I learned that it takes a dozen McIntosh apples to make the apple pie bar recipe, and it takes 8-9 McIntosh apples per 10" round pie. All that apple peeling, especially because my fingers don't always cooperate, is lots easier with this indispensable little gadget. It peels, cores, and slices!

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