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This dreamy Apple Pie Dip has fresh apples, spices and caramel. Serve this festive dip with dippers of your choice.
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Made this for a gathering last weekend. Sooo delicious, everyone loved it! I did add several extra cups of apples, and ginger and cloves; gave it more of a mulled cider taste. I used a cookie cutter on the pie crust to make cute little leaves too. This is one of my new favorites! Thank you!
– Sarah
If you need a dessert for a get-together that isn’t the usual, try this caramel apple pie dip! It simmers slowly in the slow cooker and is ultra decadent. The apples are perfectly tender and spiced, and your guests will enjoy this treat.
Key Ingredients
Apples: Use your favorite apple here. My favorites are Gala or Opal.
Caramel: Use an ice cream caramel topping such as Smuckers. You can even use my slow cooker caramel.
Spices: Classic holiday spices; cinnamon and nutmeg.
Thickener: Make a simple cornstarch slurry to make the dip thicker.
How to make Apple Pie Dip
- Add the apples, caramel sauce, spices, and thickener to the slow cooker and stir until everything is coated.
- Cook until the apples are tender and the dip is thick, warm, and spoonable.
Tips & Variations:
Vanilla: Add a splash of vanilla for even more flavor.
Extra Spice: You can add clove or cardamom for more holiday flavor.
Salted Caramel: Add a dash of salt, or use a jar of salted caramel for more depth of flavor.
What should I serve this Apple Pie Dip with?
- Bake pie strips with refrigerated pie dough (sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar).
- Serve with sugar cookies or graham crackers (great with cinnamon graham crackers).
- Serve over ice cream if desired.
How to Store and Reheat
- Place leftovers in the fridge; this will last about 3 days.
- Microwave and serve. Or you can serve leftover cold!
- Note, the cooked pie strips don’t carry over to the next day well, they get stale quickly. Use sugar cookies or graham crackers for serving leftovers.
Apple Pie Dip Recipe
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Ingredients
- 5 cups peeled and diced apples, (about 5 apples)
- 12.25 oz. jar caramel sauce (I use Smucker’s glass jar ice cream topping, regular or salted caramel)
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
- pinch nutmeg
- pinch salt
- 1 Tbsp. cornstarch
- 1 Tbsp. water
For the crust dippers:
- 14 oz. pkg. refrigerated pie dough
- 1/8 cup milk
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Instructions
- Add the apples, caramel, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt into a 3 quart or larger slow cooker. In a small bowl mix together the cornstarch and water, add to the slow cooker.
- Stir everything until combined.
- Cover, and cook on HIGH for 2 hours. Stirring once or twice during those 2 hours.
- In a small bowl, combine the cinnamon and sugar.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Spread out one pie crust at a time onto a baking sheet. Using a pastry brush, spread on the milk. Sprinkle half of the cinnamon sugar mixture onto the pie crusts.
- Using a pizza cutter or knife cut the pie crusts into serving strips.
- Spread out the strips on the baking sheet so they don’t bake together.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Repeat with other pie crust.
- Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
More slow cooker apple recipes
More apple recipes to try include Slow Cooker Baked Apples, Slow Cooker Apple Cider, and Slow Cooker Fried Apples, all easy options that highlight classic apple flavors.
For something sweeter, Caramel Apple Cinnamon Roll Casserole and Slow Cooker Apple Dump Cake are great choices for brunch or dessert.
Finish things off with Slow Cooker Apple Butter, perfect for spreading on toast, biscuits, or stirring into oatmeal.
The pie crust dippers are delicious, but I use a small leaf cookie cutter instead of just cutting strips for a REALLY cute dipper! They are also great with pumpkin pie dip!
Great idea Conne, I think I have one of those cutters somewhere! Also for everyone who is asking about graham crackers, I bet they would be good. I was even thinking the Keebler Sugar Cookies would be good too if you didn’t have time or want to bake the pie crusts.
Graham Cracker sticks may be nice with these?
I was wondering the same. I was trying to think of what else we can dip with
I was thinking cinnamon sugar pita chips would be good too!
Oh my goodness. I forgot about those, they are sooo good!
Has anyone tried pieces of cinnamon graham crackers for dipping?
I had that same thought- why not use cinnamon graham crackers ?
Pie crust cookies are da bomb, just add your fav jam or jelly to the leftover pie crust scraps, fold over and bake! Positively yummy!
Do you ever leave the skin on?
I think that it would probably be good! The apples are just slightly cooked in the recipes, so I think the peels would taste fine!
I do not use anything out of a jar due to what is in it. (High fructose corn syrup, etc)
Do you know of a caramel recipe that can be made from scratch that is equal to this? It sounds awesome!!
You may like this recipe from my friend Jen- https://carlsbadcravings.com/easy-creamy-caramel-sauce/ 🙂
Thank you SO much! Exactly what I was looking for!
Mahalo, Lynn
Using a variety of kinds of apples always makes apple pie more interesting. I think that same method would work great with this.
Most people use brown sugar and butter to make caramel. You’d have to find the measurements for it. I know its yummy. Condensed sweet milk turns to caramel when boiled, not not sure it if contains corn syrup.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/24703/caramel-sauce/
I am Going to try the sugar free ice cre Carmel it’s so good hubby and I are diBetic
Thanks for posting this on our Holiday Hop Sarah! Hope you’ll be back for each one through till Christmas!
That looks delicious and so easy! I love easy, too. I have to go to a potluck on Halloween with a lot of adults and children. I bet everyone would love this!
I don’t think I’ll ever eat normal apple pie again either – this looks incredible – down to the awesome dippers! Such a great idea!