This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was more a bar than a cookie. A thick slab of shortbread-y base partially baked, then topped with apples (and dried cranberries), and then topped with more of the shortbread (this time clumped to make a crumble topping) makes for a simple (despite its multi-step process) and perfect-for-the-fall dessert!
I made this over Thanksgiving weekend when I was on my own at home (editing for the win…) so I made 1/2 of the recipe. I used a loaf tin which made it easy – the base was the correct thickness and the apples and crumble were held in place (I vaguely toyed with the idea of trying to make 1/s in a regular square tin but wondered about the topping falling off…).
I *loved* this. A lot. It actually reminded me of a Sara Lee Apple Danish – in a good way! I took most of it over to neighbours to share but saved two pieces for myself (it made 6 longer “bars” as opposed to squares) and it was even good the next day – reheated in a microwave with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I’ll be making this again, for sure – and I can see all sorts of possibilities for other fruits here too….
Get the recipe for Dorie’s Crumb-Topped Apple Bars on p 59 of Dorie’s Cookies.
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This was a great recipe. I was wondering how I could halve the recipe and gave up because , I couldn’t decide what tine might work. However, I don’t think the recipients of these bars were sad at the number.
Ha! Had I not halved the recipe, I’d have eaten the lot!
Was the topping crunchy? Often at restaurants these days you order say apple crumble or similar but the topping is never crunchy.
Yes it was crunchy because it was essentially baked shortbread dough 🙂 SO good!
I made these for a party and they were a big hit. Good luck with the book.
Weren’t they good?
They look so delicious with the juice oozing out. Scrumptious! I ran out of time to make these but now I want to after reading your post.
Not so much juice oozing out at all actually – luckily as they were sort of falling-apart-y as it was!
Just when I finally got round to buying Baking Chez Moi – I have another book to add to my wish list 🙂
This is a REALLY good one!