Caramel Apple Crumble Cheesecake Bars

These Caramel Apple Crumble Cheesecake Bars are a combination of apple cobbler, caramel apples, & cheesecake – and they are out of this world delicious!

I am the worst at naming recipes creatively. I wish that I could name recipes these really cool creative names, but I guess I’m just too literal for that. I’m the kind of person who looks through a cookbook & expect the name to describe exactly what the recipe is. Like those Magic Bars that you see recipes for that. I read that & have no idea what it’s made of. Magicians? Rabbits in hats? Levitating agents?

Yeah…

I am super creative when I wanna be, but I’ll save that creativeness for things for crafts & homeschool lessons – and keep it away from naming recipes.

I guess if I did do the whole creative recipe naming thing – these Caramel Apple Crumble Cheesecake Bars wouldn’t be such a long name for a recipe. I could call them something like Applicious Bars, or These Taste Good Bars or even Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Bars. Butttttt….. I think I’m gonna stick with the descriptive name. Because you should always know what you’re gonna get.  I really wish that this philosophy applied to lotto tickets though 😉

Apple desserts are a favorite of mine, and the first thing I did was make this really easy Caramel Apple Trifle, but adding in layers of the Honey Bunches of Oats – delish!

As good as that was, I wanted to take it a step further while still staying on the whole caramel apple bandwagon. So, that’s where these Caramel Apple Crumble Cheesecake Bars come in. There like a plethora of some of my favorite things. It’s like a mix of caramel apples, apple cobbler, & cheesecake – all coming together in one delectable dessert that is a crowd pleaser!

In process….Mmmmm!

These bars have a crust made out of Honey Bunches of Oats Apple & Cinnamon Bunches flavor – an are layered with cheesecake & apple filling, and then topped with more honey bunches of oats.  Insanely good, y’all!

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Caramel Apple Crumble Cheesecake Bars

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Ingredients

• For the crust:
• 3 cups Honey Bunches of Oats Apple & Cinnamon Bunches flavor OR Honey Oat
• 1 cup butter melted
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup flour
• For the filling:
• 2 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 21 oz can of apple pie filling
• 3/4 cup Honey Bunches of Oats Apple & Cinnamon Bunches - OR Honey Oat to top with
• jarred caramel for drizzling

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
• In a food processor or blender, process the cereal until lightly crushed. Combine cereal mixture with melted butter, sugar, and flour. Press into the bottom of a 9x13 baking dish that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Bake for 15 minutes.
• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese with 1/2 cup of sugar until smooth & creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, along with the vanilla. Pour over the warm crust. Spread the apple filling over top. Sprinkle with 3/4 cup of Honey Bunches of Oats Apple & Cinnamon Bunches.
• Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Drizzle jarred caramel over top. Let cool before slicing. Store in the fridge & serve the bars with more drizzled caramel if desired.

Disclosure: I was compensated by Post Honey Bunches of Oats for my work on this post & creating this delicious recipe. All opinions & general ramblings are my own.

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