Iced Apple Bars
These cake bars are incredibly moist and delicious. A spiced apple bar is topped with a sweet vanilla icing. One bar is just not enough! Great for afternoon tea, snacking on or popping into packed lunches.
Ingredients
Serves: 20
- For the Cake
- 50g butter or margarine, softened
- 145g dark brown soft sugar
- 1 egg
- 250g apple sauce
- 125g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- For the Icing
- 180g icing sugar
- 50g margarine, melted
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method
Prep:10min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:35min
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Grease a 20x30cm or similar sized baking tin.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the butter, dark brown soft sugar and egg until smooth. Stir in apple sauce. Combine the flour, bicarbonate of soda and pumpkin pie spice; stir into the apple sauce mixture until well blended. Spread evenly into the prepared tin.
- Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven or until edges are golden. Cool in the tin over a wire rack.
- In a small bowl, mix together the icing sugar and margarine. Stir in vanilla and milk until smooth. Spread over cooled bars before cutting into squares.
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Loved this easy quick recipe - 11 Mar 2014
yum! what a tasty & wonderfully moist bar! i only made a few simple modifications such as substituting half of the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour & tossing a 1/2 c. golden raisins into the batter (just because). "pumpkin pie spice" isn't something i have in my pantry. instead i use the spices my grandmother put into her pumpkin pies: 1/4 tsp. ground ginger, 1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg & 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon. a couple more notes: i went with the flow & baked these in a 9 x 9" pan to get a thicker bar. mine were done in 30 minutes. lastly, i skipped the frosting & sprinkled mine with confectioner's sugar. these bars have enough flavor to stand on their own. thank you debbi! - 08 Sep 2005 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I JUST MADE THIS AND IT TURNED OUT GREAT. I TOO USED AN 8X8 PAN AND BAKED FOR 20 MINUTES. I WAS ALSO OUT OF PUMPKIN PIE SPICE SO I USED A LITTLE ALLSPICE, NUTMEG AND CINNAMON. IT IS DELICIOUS. I ALSO ADDED SOME BROWN SUGAR TO THE ICING, FROSTED THE CAKE WHILE WARM, AND CUT MYSELF A SLICE. GOOD!! MY 3 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER AND ONE YEAR OLD SON LOVED IT AS WELL. THANKS FOR THIS SIMPLE RECIPE. - 20 Nov 2002 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)