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Can I Get Drunk Eating Bourbon Apple Bars?
There is an old tale that makes us believe that alcohol is burned off when its been cooked. Well, that is not entirely true….
You won’t get wasted nibbling on a Bourbon Apple bar, but it is important to understand that food cooked with liquor or alcohol can still contain alcohol. In fact, you can be over the legal limit to drink and drive just by eating some of these bars depending on whether you ate earlier or not.
Some alcohol does evaporate and burn off when cooked, but not all of it. Therefore, when eating food that has been cooked in alcohol, you should always be cautious of how much you eat.
Apple Bars Ingredients:
This recipe has three-parts to it. So, there are three ingredient sections: the crust, the filling and the steusal (topping).
Crust Ingredients
- 1/2 C unsalted butter (melted)
- 1/4 C sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 C flour (spoon/ level out)
Apple Filling Ingredients
- 2 large Gala apples (peeled and thinly sliced to 1/4 in thick)
- 2 TBSP flour
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
- 2 TBSP sugar
- 2 tsp bourbon 1 tsp ground cinnamon
Streusel Ingredients
- 1/2 C old-fashioned oats
- 1/3 C brown sugar (packed)
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- Parchment paper
- 1/4 C flour
- 1/4 C unsalted butter (cold and cubed)
- 1 large bowl
- 2 medium bowls
- 8 in square baking pan
- whisk Spoon
Bourbon Apple Bars Recipe
To begin, Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Line an 8 in square baking dish with parchment paper.
How to Make the Crust
In a medium bowl stir the melted butter, sugar, vanilla, and salt together.
How to Make the Apple Filling
In a large bowl add the sliced apples, flour, sugar, bourbon cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Continue working with the apples until they are well coated. Set aside.
How to Make the Stuesal
Begin adding the oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and flour in a medium bowl. Whisk all ingredients together until they are mixed well.
Slowly begin to work the butter into the dry ingredients. Using your hands to work with the mixture until it looks like crumbs. Set aside.
Remove the crust from the oven. Set aside. Increase the temperature of the oven to 350 degrees, Begin to make a think layer of apples on the baked crust. Put the apple slices close together pressing them down into the crust.
Remove the bars from the baking pan and cut into bars.
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