These Caramel Apple Crumble Bars are made with a delicious oatmeal crumble crust, coconut, caramel, and apples infused with spices. They’re drizzled with caramel sauce and every bite is perfect! It’s the perfect dessert and even better when served with ice cream.

It’s fall and if you’re looking for a dessert recipe to make with the abundance of apples you have from apple picking, these Caramel Apple Crumble Bars are worth every bite!

They remind me of a classic apple pie and I love the layers of apples and oatmeal crust on the bottom. But my favorite part of this recipe is the pile of irresistible crumble and melted caramel on the top!

How To Make Caramel Apple Crumble Bars – Step By Step

Table of Contents

In a large mixing bowl, stir apples and 1/2 cup sugar. Let it sit for 20 minutes to get soft and juicy.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a 13×9 baking pan with foil and then overlay with parchment paper. Leave extra parchment paper hanging over the sides so you can remove the bars easily.

Drain the apples and discard liquid. Stir in 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup brown sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, 1 teaspoon salt, vanilla, cardamon and nutmeg into the apples and combine well.

In a mixing bowl with the paddle attachment, combine oats, soft butter, baking soda, 1/2 cup shredded coconut, remaining 3 cups flour, remaining 1 1/2 cups brown sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. Mix on medium until combined and crumbly.

Press 4 cups (save the rest for later) of the crumb mixture into the prepared baking pan.

Bake for 20 minutes and let it cool for 5 minutes.

Stir pecans into the remaining crumb mixture you saved. You will add this to the top and also store some for ice cream topping, yum!

Spread apple mixture over the baked, warm crust. Sprinkle with some of the reserved oat crumbs.

Bake for 40 minutes, them remove and let it cool and then refrigerate it until it’s firm, about 1-3 hours.

Using the excess parchment paper, pull to remove from the pan and then cut into bars.

Melt the caramels as advised on the package. You can use the microwave in 15-second intervals until melted.

Drizzle the caramel over the cut bars and serve. You can refrigerate for 3 days.

This is best served with vanilla ice cream, extra crumb topping and more caramel sauce. You can also add butterscotch morsels to the top as well. Literally heaven in a bowl!

Caramel Candies – An Awesome Drizzle!

Since these are apple bars with caramel sauce, who remembers these caramel candies? Brings back childhood memories!

Unwrapping each individual caramel and then quickly melting them makes it easy to drizzle caramel over the top.

side shot of caramel poured onto apple crumble bars

This sauce is sweet and creamy, perfectly complementing the apple crumble, it lifts the classic crumble bar to the next level!

The Tastiest Homemade Crumble Topping

This crumble topping is AMAZING! From pecans to coconuts It’s got so many great flavors and it MUST be added to ice cream too. It’s also truly the best ice cream topper ever. Make sure you save some on the side to use as an apple crumble topping. Add in butterscotch morsels too!