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This may just be the perfect fall dessert.

Apple Crisp Blondies: dense, fudgy blondies topped with soft apples and crunchy brown sugar streusel. Perfect for your fall and winter baking!

I’ll be the first to admit that I can resist apple crisp no better in the spring than I can in the fall, but I guess there are people who cook and bake seasonally. I try really hard to be to fake being one of those people, especially now as a food blogger.

However, since it’s officially fall. I can bake up as many apple desserts as I want and no one will judge, right?

So I’d seen tons of recipes all over Pinterest for apple pie bars and apple crisp bars, and I was totally going to try some of them. But then I thought, “why not a blondie?”

In my mind, fudgier is always better.

Apple Crisp Blondies: dense, fudgy blondies topped with soft apples and crunchy brown sugar streusel. Perfect for your fall and winter baking!

Now, I’m sure those other apple crisp bars are super amazing. But, I really like blondies. And I really wanted to see if I could bake an apple crisp on top of them.

It took me 2 tries, but I did it.

Now you know I’m all about minimal effort and dishes. I thought about cooking down the apples on the stove first, before topping the blondie, but that seemed like too much work. I tried putting the apples right on top of the blondie batter and baking together, but the blondie just didn’t set up enough.

So I compromised. I baked the blondie part way while I microwaved the apples slightly to give them a head start and made my streusel.

It was a total win.

Apple Crisp Blondies: dense, fudgy blondies topped with soft apples and crunchy brown sugar streusel. Perfect for your fall and winter baking!

I’m kind of embarrassed that I didn’t go all out and mound these with ice cream while I was photographing them. Because what goes better with apple crisp than vanilla ice cream?

Exactly.

This time, you’ll just have to forgive me. But make sure you add a big scoop of ice cream to your own when you make these. Because you need to make these.

Serves 9-12 servings     adjust servings

Apple Crisp Blondies

Preparation 25 mins Prep Time
Cook Time 35 mins Cook Time
Total Time 1:00 Total Time

Apple Crisp Blondies: dense, fudgy blondies topped with soft apples and crunchy brown sugar streusel. Perfect for your fall and winter baking!

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Ingredients

Blondies

  • 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 cup flour (I've used both all-purpose and whole wheat)

Apples

  • 2-3 medium apples, diced small (I don't peel them)
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Streusel

  • 1/4 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 cup large oats
  • 2/3 cup flour
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Instructions

  1. Line an 8x8" pan with tin foil and spray with non stick spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

For the blondies:

  1. In a large bowl, melt the butter. Stir in sugar. Stir in remaining ingredients (through flour). Spread into prepared pan.
  2. Bake 15 minutes while you preparing the topping.

For the topping:

  1. Combine apples, brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon in the same bowl you used to make the blondies. Microwave for 5 minutes on high. Stir and set aside.
  2. In a separate bowl, combine butter, brown sugar, oats, flour and cinnamon until crumbly (I use my fingers, but you could use a fork or pastry cutter).
  3. When blondies have baked 15 minutes, spread with apples, and top the apples with the streusel. Press down gently. Bake another 18-20 minutes.
  4. Place on a wire rack and cool to room temperature, then chill in the fridge for at least 2-3 hours before removing from the pan and slicing.

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Blondie recipe adapted from Inspired Taste.

 

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Comments

  2. I followed the recipe to the T. Used Granny Smith apples. These did not hold their shape for me. I let them cool for about 30 minutes. There was still a lot of liquid and the foil ripped apart when I tried to take them out of the pan.

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    • I’m sorry to hear that! Most baking is still pretty warm at the 30 minute mark — I would be sure to chill them for a couple hours before removing. I apologize for not being more specific in the recipe — I will update it now!

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  3. These look amazing! I want to make them for school tomorrow to cheer up my friends with the cold weather and all, but I don’t have enough butter. Which parts, if any, can be substituted with canola oil or coconut oil? Thank you!

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    • I have never actually baked with coconut oil so I can’t give you any advice on that. I would say the streusel would be the easiest to swap out because it just needs fat to crisp up and get brown. I hope that helps!

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  4. I can not believe in this . I baked this apple crisp today and I completely falling in love for this however I work with a health food gluten /lacfree and without sugar so I changed a few of ingredients and the results was amazing.
    Congrats

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  9. Are the apples tender after microwaving? I’d rather cook them in water on the stove 🙂 The recipe looks great! Thanks!

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    • The apples are cooked probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through in the microwave. You could definitely cook them over the stove instead!

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  17. I can eat apple desserts all year long too! I love that you made blondies especially with that glorious streusel topping! And I am totally drooling over that gorgeous drizzle shot! This is the best way to start the weekend! I’ll take 5 squares please 🙂

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