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Easy apple squares are made with cinnamon and brown sugar. These delicious cake bars are very moist, thanks to the vegetable oil and the plain Greek yogurt.
The apple squares are super easy and quick to prepare on a busy weeknight! If you're bored with making the same apple recipes, such as apple crisp, crumble, or cobbler, try these little apple squares, and you'd be very happy! These apple cake bars work great as both dessert and breakfast. Talking about breakfast, have you tried these apple cinnamon pancakes with shredded apples? Or, maybe you will enjoy this cozy apple crumb coffee cake?
Apple Squares with Cinnamon and Brown Sugar
In this recipe, I am using a generous amount of apples, tossed together with cinnamon and brown sugar, folded in the cake batter and baked in a 9x9 square pan. These apple cake bars are really just a lot of apple chunks held together by a relatively small amount of cake batter. 🙂 After all, the apple dessert recipes should be all about apples, shouldn't they?
The apple squares are very moist, thanks to the vegetable oil and the plain Greek yogurt.
Other apple desserts
If you love all things apple, you will love these quick and easy apple desserts:
Apple Breakfast recipes
What could be better than enjoying a small slice of something sweet with apples in the morning? Here are my favorite apple breakfast recipes:
- Pumpkin Banana Bread with Apples
- Crepes with Ricotta Cheese and Caramelized Apples
- Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
- Apple Cinnamon Crepes
Easy Apple Squares (Cake Bars)
Ingredients
- 3 apples peeled, cored, and chopped into small square chunks
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup white sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9×9 square pan.
- In a medium bowl, toss chopped apples with cinnamon and brown sugar.
- In a mixing bowl, combine together 1 and ¼ cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, and ⅛ teaspoon salt.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together 1 cup of white sugar, vegetable oil, yogurt, and vanilla until very smooth. Add eggs and whisk until smooth.
- Add dry ingredients (flour mixture) into wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Pour half of the batter into the greased pan, top with half of the apples, then pour the remaining half of the batter on top of the apple layer. Top with the remaining half of apples.
- Bake the cake for about 45 minutes or 1 hour - until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Dust with powdered sugar before serving.
Nutrition
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Your apple bars look terrific...I would not be able to resist! And I'm drooling over your crepes below, too!!! I love apple treats!
That's exactly the way I like my desserts: chock FULL of fruit and very little else! (Well, unless chocolate is involved...) And there's nothing wrong with posting multiple apple recipes in a row. They're one of my favorite fruits! 🙂
These look so good. Pinning!
Every year we go up to our cabin to pick apples from the orchard. I collect recipes all year for after our trip. Apple sauce! Apple pie! Apple-spice muffins! Apple! Apple! Apple! Thanks for contributing to my collection 😉
Easy to prepare fall treats are what we all need! A fabulous recipe my family would enjoy!
Those pictures are mouth watering, great job as usual Julia :). I only have 2 apples left, need to make a trip to the store :).
Love that these are absolutely loaded with apples! This looks like the perfect fall dessert!
I am sitting here with a cup of coffee and wishing I had some of these bars! Terrific!
I could have this delicious squares with my afternoon tea, daily 🙂
Darn those pesky day jobs! Both of these apple recipes look marvelous! What variety of apples do you like using? I am partial to Granny Smiths and Honeycrisps.
You know, I always experiment and use all kinds of apples. I even use the apples from my mother-in-law's apple tree that's half wild and nobody knows what kind of apples are those. 🙂 I've made this recipe with very sweet apples and also with tart Granny Smiths. Both times, it came out really good, albeit with very different flavors for sure.
In our family we are all big fans of apple dessert ad this one looks superb!
Never tried one with the addition of yogurt but it seems a great idea and is healthy too.
I know I would love these..have not made apple bars in so long..must check and compare..these look so good Julia~
Monique, your alter ego is showing up in your Avatar photo again. 🙂
Just baked these apple squares. So good and moist.
Beautiful apple bars, m'lady! They look moist and scrumptious. I need to make some of these bars soon. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous colour and wonderful flavours..these apple bars look truly tempting!
Yes! I love that these are packed full of apples. And that dusting of confectioners' sugar? So pretty! What a perfect treat to go with a cup of coffee or tea!