Caramel Apple Bar 🍎🍁 It’s caramel apple season and this caramel apple bar is a FUN and festive quintessential fall treat! EASY to prep and it’s a wonderful family family-friendly activity for kids and adults alike!
Easy Caramel Apple Bar Ideas
- Get ready for some fall-inspired fun with a caramel apple bar. I love that the apples are already in bite-sized wedges.
- Nothing quite like trying to bite into a big caramel apple and either ending up with a face full of caramel, which is totally avoided here!
- This caramel apple bar would be a great activity for kids on, say, a game day afternoon when the adults are focused on a football game, for anyone looking for a fall-themed birthday party idea, or even as a girls-night-in activity. May as well break out the wine or bubbly, in that case!
- Another bonus is that if you have odds and ends in your pantry like a few Oreos, a bit of cereal, a small amount of nuts, some random sprinkles or jimmies from a baking project, the sky is the limit with what kind of caramel apple toppings to use.
- Feel free to get creative and resourceful and clean out those cupboards and pantry in the process by using topping that you already have, but forgot about!
Caramel Apple Bar Ingredients
- Apples and Sprite: You can use red or green apples, but firmer apples work best. Granny Smith, Jonagold, and Honeycrisp are all great choices, although you can use whatever apples you have on hand. Many people think of lemon juice when it comes to keeping apples from turning brown but I find Sprite is just as easy and you don’t get the tartness and tang you would from lemon juice.
- Lollipop sticks: These make the apple slices easier to dip, decorate, and eat, especially for kids.
- Old-fashioned caramel sauce, white chocolate melts, and milk chocolate melts: Use a thick caramel dip or salted caramel sauce that will cling to the apples. Store-bought old-fashioned caramel dip works well, or you can use homemade salted caramel sauce. Do not use caramel sundae sauce because it is too thin and runny and will not stick to the apples well.
- Toppings: Pick at least four toppings so everyone can customize their own caramel apple slices. Mini Reese’s Pieces, chopped candy bars, gummy bears, crushed Oreos, Heath Bar Bits, roasted salted nuts, trail mix, cereal, cinnamon sugar, sprinkles, or jimmies all work. You can also use odds and ends from your pantry, which makes this a great way to use up small amounts of candy, cereal, nuts, or sprinkles.
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make a Caramel Apple Bar
- Begin by coring and quartering the apples and dip them in Sprite, which helps prevent the apples from turning brown. It’s not perfect but it definitely helps.
- Poke a lollipop stick in the apples. Alternatively, you can let people just spear their own apples. However, if you’re doing this with kids, it’s probably easier to just do it yourself.
- Then to a variety of bowls add the various toppings, candies, and the caramel sauce.
- Melt the white and milk chocolate in separate bowls in the microwave.
- Get ready to dip away in either of the chocolate sauces or the caramel sauce and then in the toppings!
Caramel Apple Board
Ingredients
- 4 apples of different varieties*, See Notes
- 12- ounce bottle Sprite, Cream soda may be substituted
- 1 package lollipop sticks, at least 20-count
- 1 container old fashioned caramel, for dipping
- ½ cup white chocolate melts or wafers
- ½ cup milk chocolate melts or wafers
Toppings (Pick 4+)
- Mini Reese’s Pieces
- Diced candy bars, Snickers, Milky Way, peanut butter cups, etc
- Gummy bears
- Crushed Oreos
- Heath Bar Bits
- Nuts
- Trail mix, cereals
- Cinnamon sugar
- Sprinkles or jimmies
Instructions
- Quarter the apples, core them, remove all seeds. I do not peel them but you can.
- Pour the Sprite into a small bowl and dip the apples into the Sprite to prevent browning; set aside.
- Spear each apple wedge with a lollipop stick.** (See Notes)
- Set out the various toppings and caramel sauce in separate small bowls.
- To a microwave-safe bowl, add the white chocolate melts and melt according to package directions. Usually 30 seconds, stop to stir, repeat in 15 second bursts of heat until it can be stirred smooth.
- To a separate microwave-safe bowl, repeat the melting process with the milk chocolate melts.
- Add the apple slices to the board and allow everyone to dip their apples in the caramel, chocolate, and toppings as desired. Apples are best eaten freshly made.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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We just had a whole house full of my daughter’s friends over and this caramel apple board was a HIT! They loved it (so did mom)!
We just had a whole house full of my daughter’s friends over and this caramel apple board was a HIT! They loved it (so did mom)!
Thank you SO so much for taking the time to write and comment! When I was posting this, I kept thinking I really hope that there is just one family out there that this will be a fun activity for them and their kids, kids’ friends, etc and this sort of old school type of activity goes over well! So glad it was a HIT!!! Thanks and have a wonderful weekend 😃
The timing for this to pop into one of my feeds was just right, I had been thinking I’d let the girls decorate their own caramel apple slices. I am SO HAPPY we opted for this instead.
It’s a fantastic idea! Have a wonderful weekend and here’s wishing that all the caramel apple lovers find this :)
Thank you again and I am so happy you opted for this and came back to share your story!
This is such a cute, innovative idea! I love it. I’m keeping this in mind for fall parties with my kids.
Thanks and I hope you try it!
Very innovative work. Great utilization of resources!!