Loaded Caramel Apple Bars

• 1 pastry for a 9-inch double-crust pie, divided
• 10 apples - peeled, cored, and sliced
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 10 individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped
• 3 tablespoons butter, sliced
• Topping:
• 1 tablespoon milk
• 1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar, or more as needed

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Cover the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish with pastry for 1 1/2 pie shells, cutting the pastry to fit and filling gaps as necessary.
3. Stir apples, sugar, flour, and cinnamon together in a large bowl to coat the apple slices. Layer apple mixture over pie crust. Arrange caramels and butter slices on top of apple mixture.
4. Cut remaining pie pastry into 1- to 2-inch pieces; arrange atop the caramels and butter.
5. Bake in preheated oven until just beginning to brown, about 1 hour.
6. Cool in baking dish on a wire rack for 30 minutes, cut into bars.
7. Beat milk and confectioner's sugar together in a small bowl; drizzle over bars.

pastry, apples, white sugar, flour, ground cinnamon, caramels, butter, topping, milk, sugar

Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/239749/loaded-caramel-apple-bars/ (may not work)