Caramel Apple Crisp Bites bring all of the flavors of fall into one delicious dessert so easily. The apple cinnamon filling and the graham cracker crust will warm your heart and fill your tummy.
Caramel Apple Crisp Bites
These Caramel Apple Crisp Bites are the perfect recipe to make with all of those delicious fresh apples you pick in the fall!
Our family loves going to the apple orchard and picking fresh apples to begin with – the apples good and fresh and crisp taste just burst when they are right off the tree. (our family’s favorite apples are large Golden Delicious apple, right off the tree – what is yours?)
But, what we love even more is what we make once we have all of those delicious apples.
You have heard me cook with my sister, my kids, and my niece… but today was a special treat – I got to cook with my husband!
Adam is my best taste tester and my best critic. When I told him I wanted to make apple crisp bites (I have a little obsession with bite-sized desserts) – he jumped right in to help!
Are you ready to be obsessed with a dessert? Seriously, get ready. You are going to be totally and completely crazed over these Caramel Apple Crisp Bites. They are one of our all-time favorite fall desserts because they are so tasty and uniquely fall!
If you have more apples to use up, try out these Caramel Apple Pie Cookies! They are out of this world!
While these Caramel Apple Crisp Bites are particularly perfect on a nice, cool, Fall day, they are a great dessert any time of the year!
What type of apples are best in an apple crisp?
Basically, you want to go with the sweet varieties of apples. Empire, Granny Smith or Honey Crisp work well. However, We used Golden Delicious for our recipe and they came on perfect.
Ingredients
- Graham cracker crumbs (I used store bought in a can. I find these to work the best)
- Butter
- Powdered sugar
- Apples (we used golden delicious)
- Sugar
- Brown sugar
- Flour
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Caramel topping
How to make Caramel Apple Crisp Bites
Apple Crisp Bites are really easy to make. It starts out with the crust!
- In a medium bowl mix together the graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar, and butter.
NOTE ABOUT BUTTER: Some people have found the crust recipe to work perfectly, while some others found the 12 tablespoons of butter was way too much and the butter started to pool – you may want to start by using 1/2 C butter (1 stick vs. 1 1/2 sticks, or 12 T). Melt the butter and add slowly to the crumbs, a little bit at a time, making sure it’s not too wet. You can always add more or save the leftover butter for later. You want a soft dough that sticks together slightly when you try to form a ball, not a wet dough. - Evenly distribute the mixture to the 24 mini muffin cups. Using your fingertips or the side of a spoon (a tablespoon measuing spoon works perfect for this), press the mixture to the bottom and sides of each cup. You will create a cup-like shape! (save a little bit to put on top of the bites if you can!)
- Bake for 5 minutes at 350 degrees (until they start to get a bit golden brown) and let cool completely.
- Chop the apples up into small pieces.
PRO-TIP: I used a food processor, but be careful not to over chop them in there. We don’t want an apple sauce or puree – just small chopped up pieces! - Mix the apples, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a bowl. Bake at 375 degrees in a baking dish for 15 minutes until the apples are slightly softened.
- Scoop the filling into each of the crust cups still in the muffin pan.
PRO-TIP: Fill them up generously. - Sprinkle any leftover graham cracker crust on to the tops of the apples and bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes.
- Take out of the oven and let them cool completely. Take a knife and loosen the crusts from the cups. They should then pop right out of the pan!
- Drizzle with caramel topping and enjoy!
More Fall Recipes
- Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread
- Cinnamon Roll Cookies
- Caramel Apple Dump Cake
- Apple Cider Doughnut Holes
Caramel Apple Crisp Bites
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Ingredients
- 2 cup graham cracker crumbs (I used store bought in a can. I find these to work the best)
- 12 tablespoons butter melted
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 4 cups peeled, cored and chopped apples (we used golden delicious)
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 ¼ tablespoons flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- Caramel topping (store bought!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease mini muffin pan with non-stick butter spray
- Melt butter
- In a medium size bowl mix graham cracker crumbs, powdered sugar and butter with a spoon (slowly add the butter and evenly distribute)PLEASE SEE UPDATE/NOTE BELOW
- Evenly distribute mixture to the 24 mini muffin cups. Press along the bottom and sides to make a “cup”
- Bake for 5 minutes and let cool completely
- Chop the apples into little pieces – I used a mini food processor. Don’t puree, just finely chop
- Mix apples, sugar, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg in a bowl
- Bake in a baking dish for 15 minutes on 375 degrees, until apples are slightly softened
- Scoop a teaspoon or so of the apple mix and place on top of the graham cracker crust cups (while still in the muffin pan) and sprinkle any extra graham cracker on top of the apples.
- Bake for 5 minutes on 350 and let cool completely. Use a knife to loosen from pan and they should pop right out.
- Drizzle with caramel topping
I just made this yesterday and they were amazing! I didn’t use the caramel topping but they were so sweet, they didn’t need it. The only problem is every time my husband or myself went in the kitchen, we ate one!
Thanks SO much for the comment Jana – totally made my day!
I have looked at the comments and it struck me that – perhaps you meant teaspoons not tablespoons of butter? This is one and a half sticks of butter.
No- sorry I’m wrong- just looked at the butter stick— it is Tablespoon
Made these this evening! Only thing I would change is make it 4.5-5 cups of chopped apples if you want the cups to be over flowing and higher than the rim of the graham crust cup. (Only if you’re like me and have awful luck with graham crust and made the bottoms and sides a bit thicker so they don’t break)
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Just made these. I cut down on the butter as suggested and still too much. Some of the little cups did not set. Also I don’t know why you would need to spray your pan, plenty of non-stick going on with the buttered graham cracker crumbs.For me not worth it. Could have baked a pie in the same amount of time.
Joan – what type of butter did you use and did you use packaged graham crackers or did you crush them?
These look soo delicious! I just read someones comment about having them at Thanksgiving! Great Idea! Pinning to that board now!
Your apple Crisp bites look so delicious! I can’t wait to try them! Thanks for sharing!
Hi,
So if i wanted to make them today to bring over to a thanksgiving dinner I just throw them in the fridge?
Aren’t they better warm? How much time to get them to be a little warmer to serve?
We ate them all up right away!!! I am sure you can throw them in the oven for a few minutes and warm them! Let me know how it goes!
How many mini crisps will this recipe make? Did it make exactly 24? I can’t wait to bake these!!!
Skipped the whole too much butter issue and used store bought mini Graham cracker crust. Came out great without all the fuss.