Caramel-Apple Crunch Cake By Dapur Sinolin

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking and cooling time: 60 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 box (8.94 oz) Nature Valley™ Crunchy Granola Bars, crushed into coarse crumbs SAVE $
• ½ cup Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 3 cups softened vanilla or cinnamon ice cream
• ¾ can apple pie filling (chop up the apple pieces)
• ¼ cup caramel sauce, plus extra for serving

DIRECTION:

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Place the Nature Valley granola bars in a food processor and process to a coarse crumb consistency. In a large mixing bowl, add the granola bar crumbs, flour, brown sugar and melted butter and stir to mix together. Spread the mixture out onto a pan lined with parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Let cool completely. Spread half of the crumb mixture onto the bottom of an 8×8-inch baking dish. Reserve the other half of the crumbs.
2. In a large mixing bowl, add the softened ice cream and stir in the apple pie pieces and caramel sauce. Pour the mixture over the crumbs in the 8×8-inch baking dish. Sprinkle the remaining crumbs over the top, cover with aluminum foil and freeze for at least 3 hours.
3. Cut into squares and serve with whipped cream and caramel sauce.