Mushroom Free Honey-Nutmeg Apple Crumble Bars
Warm spiced apples, golden crumble, and a drizzle of honey — these bars are the kind of cozy bake that makes your whole kitchen smell incredible. The filling leans on honey and nutmeg to bring out the natural sweetness of the apples, creating a flavor that feels both rustic and a little special. The crust and topping are built from rolled oats, rice flour, and tapioca starch, which means the texture is satisfyingly crisp without relying on anything that could cause concern for those avoiding fungi-derived ingredients. Cold butter worked into the dry mix creates those irresistible clumpy, golden crumbs that bake up beautifully over the bubbling apple layer. Tapioca starch does double duty here — binding the crumble and thickening the filling so every bar holds its shape when you slice it. These are just as good slightly warm from the pan as they are the next morning with a cup of coffee. Cut into nine generous squares, they're easy to share, easy to pack, and honestly hard to stop eating.
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9 servings
For the crust and crumble
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ¾ cup rice flour
- ¼ cup tapioca starch
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold and cut into ½-inch cubes
For the apple filling
- 3 medium apples (about 1 ½ lb), peeled, cored, and cut into ¼-inch slices
- 3 tbsp honey
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tbsp tapioca starch
- 1 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 9×9-inch baking pan with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch overhang on two opposite sides to use as handles for lifting the bars out later.
- 2
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the rolled oats, rice flour, tapioca starch (the crust-and-crumble portion), granulated sugar, and fine sea salt until evenly combined. Add the cold butter cubes and work them in with a pastry cutter or your fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse, clumpy crumbs with some pea-sized pieces of butter remaining — do not overwork it into a smooth dough.
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