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Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Crisp

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I’ve always been in love with caramel apples. They were a special treat from the fair, we made them at home and I loved to dip apple slices into caramel sauce.  Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Crisp is one of those caramel apple treats that we love!

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The crisp of the apples with the sweetness of the caramel is just so, so good. While I loved caramel apples as a child, it was later in life when I discovered my love of apple crisps. Since I love them both, why not combine those two things together!?

Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Crisp

I’ve been using my slow cooker a lot, I finally got a new one and I think that’s why I’ve been trying to make everything in it lately. This is a take on my regular “oven” apple crisp but I’ve added sweet caramel to it and cooked it all in the slow cooker so that dessert can cook but I can still have the oven for dinner.

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This slow cooker Caramel Apple Crisp takes about 2 hours to cook. The longest part of the prep time is chopping the apples into wedges and peeling the skins from them.

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Slow Cooker Caramel Apple Crisp

Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time2 hours 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 6 golden delicious apples
  • 2 boxes yellow cake mix
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 3 tablespoons cinnamon powder
  • 1 stick butter melted
  • 1/4 cup caramel sauce
  • Ice Cream optional

Instructions

  • Slice and peel the apples.
  • In a large bowl, combine the yellow cake mix, sugar and cinnamon powder.
  • Add in the melted butter and stir to combine and crumbly.
  • Pour apples into bowl of slow cooker.
  • Set slow cooker to high.
  • Pour the caramel sauce over the apples.
  • Pour dry ingredients over the apples and caramel. Spread it out with a spoon so that the entire surface is covered.
  • Cover and cook on high for 2 hours. After 2 hours, set the slow cooker to low and remove the lid. Let sit for 30 minutes without the lid so that the top of the crisp can harden.
  • Serve with Vanilla Ice Cream and Caramel Drizzle.

 

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We love to serve this warm with vanilla ice cream and we drizzle extra caramel over the top for a sweet treat!

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Angie is a contributing writer for Eat at Home. She lives in VA with her husband (BigBear) and their 4 dogs (who might as well be their children)!  She blogs over at BigBearsWife.com about her favorite recipes, love of travel and she even throws in a few crafts here and there.You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. 

 

Chocolate Dipped Banana Pudding Pops

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Welcome to new contributing writer, Angie from Big Bear’s Wife!  I got to meet Angie in person at the Food Blog Forum conference in Disney World, where we chatted over Monsters Inc. cupcakes.  I’m excited to have Angie sharing recipes with us here.  And these Chocolate Dipped Banana Pudding Pops look right up my alley!

These Chocolate Dipped Banana Pudding Pops have become one of my recent “go-to” snacks and they’re so easy to make. I’ve always been a fan of popsicles.  I remember having the molds as a kid and making popsicles with anything I could get my hands on.

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Kool-aid pops, fruit juice pops and pudding pops where stuffed into every section of our freezer. Banana pops were one of my favorite flavors growing up! Do you remember those? The banana pops with the two sticks that broke apart in the middle. I think they were made like that so that you could share, but I’m not sure if I ever wanted to share my banana pops. They where the “King” of all popsicles in my eyes.

I love banana pudding and the combination of chocolate and banana is just the perfect match, so it was only a matter of time before I combined them together into this frozen treat! These come together in a flash with the longest part of the whole process being the wait for them to come out of the freezer. Plus, you only need 4 ingredients to make these beauties happen: Banana Pudding Mix, Milk, Chocolate Magic Shell and Crushed Vanilla Wafers.

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The banana pudding freezes but still remains pretty creamy, the chocolate shell hardens in seconds and the crushed vanilla wafers add the perfect “banana pudding touch”! Where I’m from, banana pudding isn’t banana pudding without vanilla wafers!

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Chocolate Dipped Banana Pudding Pops

Servings: 4 -8 (depending on size of molds)

Ingredients

  • 1 large box banana creme pudding mix
  • 3 cups cold milk
  • 1 cup chocolate magic shell
  • 10 vanilla wafers crushed
  • Popsicle Molds

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and cold milk. Whisk the pudding mix for about 5 minutes, until it starts to thicken.
  • Carefully pour the banana pudding into the popsicle molds and insert popsicle sticks.
  • Place into the freezer for 3-4 hours or until frozen)
  • Once frozen, remove pops from freezer.
  • Working one at a time, carefully run the mold under warm water to loosen the pop. Remove the pop from the mold.
  • Dip the pudding pop into the chocolate magic shell.
  • Immediately sprinkle with crushed vanilla wafers.
  • Repeat until all pops are complete.

Looking for more recipe packed with banana flavor? Check out Ingredient Spotlight : Bananas (2012)

Angie is a contributing writer for Eat at Home. She lives in VA with her husband (BigBear) and their 4 dogs (who might as well be their children)!  She blogs over at BigBearsWife.com about her favorite recipes, love of travel and she even throws in a few crafts here and there.You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.