Vegan Apple Crumble Bars
Vegan apple crumble bars - apple crumble in bar form! These Autumnal bars are a great way of using up a few apples. A crunchy, oaty biscuit base and crumble topping are filled with sweet, juicy spiced apples, perfect for snacking!
Servings 9 bars
Ingredients
Apple Filling:
- 600 g (unprepared weight) eating apples (about 4-5 apples)
- 60 g (⅓ cup) light brown soft sugar
- 30 g (2 Tablespoons) vegan butter
- 2 Tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 teaspoons plain (all-purpose) flour
Crumble:
- 180 g (1 ½ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 150 g (1 + ⅔ cups) porridge oats
- 100 g (½ cup) light brown soft sugar
- rounded ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- pinch salt
- 175 g (¾ cup) vegan block butter (NOT the spreadable kind. I use Naturli Vegan Block) cold and diced
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/375°F/gas mark 5. Grease a 20 cm/8 in square cake tin and line it with baking parchment.
- Peel, core and slice the apples then place them in a pan with the sugar, butter, lemon juice, cinnamon, vanilla and a pinch of salt.
- Stir to combine then sauté gently until the fruit has softened slightly and the juices have reduced to a thick syrup. Set aside to cool. Once the apples have cooled, sprinkle over the flour and stir in gently.
- Mix together the oats, flour, baking powder, sugar, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.
- Add the cold vegan butter and rub it in using your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs and no lumps of butter remain.
- Tip about two thirds of the mixture into the prepared tin. Spread it out level and pack it down very firmly. Pop the rest of the mixture in the fridge.
- Bake for about 15-20 minutes until pale golden.
- Spread over the apple mixture then scatter over the rest of the crumble mixture, press it down very slightly.
- Bake for about 25-30 minutes until golden.
- Leave the bars to cool in the tin for 20 minutes then carefully transfer them to a wire rack. Leave to cool completely before slicing.
Notes
- All of my recipes are developed using grams, and as with all of my baking recipes I really do recommend using the metric measurements with a digital scale rather than the cup conversions. Cups are a wildly inaccurate measuring system and you will get far better, more consistent results using a scale, not to mention that it is also easier and less messy than cups!
- See post above for tips, details and step-by-step photos.