Worm Covered Rotten Apple Bars
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 6:35PM in Bars/Brownies, baking, desserts, fruit, holidays, pie, recipes, snack Sounds so good, right? Hell, no! But since there aren’t any real worms, and the apples aren’t really rotten, yes--these are a mouthwatering snack! Plus, if you’re severely lacking in pie-making skills, like I am, then these will be perfect for you!
This is a Pillsbury recipe that I changed up a bit. They use canned pie filling, I made my own, based on this recipe at Allrecipes. It’s so easy to, and you know what’s in it--no mystery ingredients. The one concession I did make, was to use a refrigerated pie crust.
I know!!! Don’t hate me! I just suck at making crust. I was also in a hurry. I have made crust before, but it never works out right. Ever. At least I’m not telling you I make crust when I really don’t, right? ;)
This has a nice base crust, made of brown sugar, flour, and butter. I also added some cinnamon. Because I like it cinnamony. An easy, spicy apple pie filling, topped with pie crust, cut in strips and tossed with cinnamon sugar.
The Lazy Girl's Apple Pie! Yep, that’s me. I like pie, but I like easy pie.
This is for the #GreatHallowTweet on Twitter, started by Renee at Flamingo Musings. See that Pumpkin widget in my sidebar? Those are all of the participating blogs, so please check out the other participants, too. We’ll be doing this all week, leading up to Halloween!
Wormy Apple Bars
CRUST:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 tsp cinnamon
FILLING:
8 apples, peeled, cored and sliced (I used Macouns)
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 TBSP ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
18 tsp nutmeg
TOPPING:
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 box (15 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crusts
Heat oven to 425°F (400°F for dark or nonstick pan).
In large bowl, beat flour, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon with an electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. It will be crumbly.
Press mixture in the bottom of ungreased 13x9-inch pan.
Combine the dry ingredients for the filling in a bowl. Just before you're ready to cover the crust with it the filling, toss the apples with the dry stuff--coat them well.
Carefully spread the filling over the crust.
Bake 10 minutes.
While that bakes, in large bowl, mix granulated sugar and cinnamon.
Cut 1 cold unrolled crust lengthwise in half (keep remaining crust refrigerated).
Cut into 1/4-inch slices. Repeat with remaining crust.
Separate pieces, and toss with sugar mixture.
After the 10 minutes, sprinkle cut-up crust mixture evenly over filling.
Bake 18 to 22 minutes more, or until crust is golden brown. Cool completely, about 30 minutes.
For bars, cut into 4 rows by 3 rows. Cover and refrigerate any remaining bars.
See? Easy, right? And they taste great! Lots of cinnamon, sweet apples, and the “worms” on top get all crispy and crunchy.
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Reader Comments (30)
LOVE IT! Those are AWESOME!
How fun! I just have to close my eyes now if I make and eat them. All I see is worms:)
Aren't you clever! These look a LOT tastier than they sound :D and I like easy pie too. The spices in the filling sound really good.
Looks great Elle! I am with you on pie crust. My MIL makes incredible crust and says I suck because my hands are too warm...who knows but I suck at it too!
Refrigerated pie crust? Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhh (Horror movie starlet scream)
Just kidding. These really look kind of gross, but only because of the name. I mean, hey, I couldn't eat dinner the other night while my kids watched the Wizards of Waverly Place "Zombie Prom" episode, so make fun of me as you will. Funny about the crust comment above (warm hands). I was thinking the same thing. You probably melt the fat (butter or shortening). I mean that as a compliment, really. :D
Casey
Love this! I'm actually glad you used refrigerated pie crust - gives me courage to post something I've made sometimes with refrigerated crescent roll dough and sometimes with store-bought puff pastry. :-)) Except for the wormy bits (which look awesome!), this reminds me a little of my mom's apple cake. Yum!
Love these!!
Hello fellow HBin5 member....I just wanted to stop by and tell you how awesome this recipe looks!! I totally suck at making those pretty pie crusts....but how fun is this?!! and about as forgiving as anything i've ever seen.
That's so funny - I just bought a Pillsbury magazine TODAY and it has that recipe in it! I'm glad I saw your change to homemade apple pie filling before I made it - great idea!
Bwahahaha..love these rottenly delicious appple bars. Great for the Hallowtweet & YUM in veryway! Good job here Elle!
Yum! Looks and sounds delicious! The name is really cute too.
Love the Halloween theme on your site :)
LOVE your header!!!
I won't hate you! I have two boxes of pillsbury pie crust in my freezer right now! I can't see making a crust when pillsbury does it so well! The bars look yummy!
ha—great header! lovely treat, too. i won’t lie—worms generally make me squeamish, but i guess if enough butter and cinnamon is involved, they lose their intimidation factor. :)
Super easy! & I bet as tasty as pie
Hot damn, girl! Those look great! Totally my speed. :D Also, LOVE your header!
+Jessie
Such a cute idea! I love it!
These look great! Very creative. :)
I love the creative use of the crust for the bars. I wish that we could go back to the time when you could hand these out to trick-or-treaters. I would be knocking at your door, that is for sure.
Oh man, these are so creepy cute!!!
Awesome. I would totally eat it, even knowing the name. ;)
That looks like a terrific recipe to send into school! Thanks for sharing and I'l be back to see what other spooktacular dishes you whip up!
~ingrid
Love it! And I actually really like the wormy top...very cool. I might use this method for a double crust pie.
I had trouble for years with pie crust until I tried the Vodka Pie Crust recipe from Cook's Illustrated and now I don't have any problems.
Michelle
This is so stinkin cute!
Very cute and clever! Love the crust shortcut!
oh yeah girl, this rocks!!!!!!!
These are great looking scary halloween snacks!
What a fun treat! I'm going to bookmark this for next year's Halloween party menu!
Not only does it look spooky, it looks delicious!
Thanks so much, everyone! I appreciate the comments! :)
Okay, this one is not scary at all - it looks divine! Love the flavors and great idea instead of an apple pie! Yummy!