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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.
Mine came out super runny-huge bummer
Town House has cinnamon sugar pita chips available this time of year, think I am going to try those, but will have cinnamon graham crackers on back up! So excited to try this recipe!!
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!
I am thinking of using cinnamon gram crackers instead of the pie dough strips
Whatever you do, don’t overheat it – I came back after 2 hours and the caramel had completely separated to give a watery, clumpy sugar that the apples were just floating in…not good.
I have directions to make caramel sauce by heating a can of sweetened condensed milk in a slow cooker. Haven’t tried it yet. (Almost afraid I’d eat the whole can myself! LOL) I also found directions online to make my own sweetened condensed milk.
Sweetened Condensed Milk
Online, 12/22/14 from Paula Deen
Total Time:
8 min
Prep:
5 min
Cook:
3 min
Yield:
14 ounces
Level:
Easy
Ingredients
1/3 cup boiling water
4 tablespoons butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup powdered milk (recommended: Carnation)
Directions
Using an electric mixer, blend together water, butter, sugar, and vanilla.
Add powdered milk and blend until thick. Store in refrigerator for up to 1 week.
I made some homemade caramel but it got thinner after apples cooked. Solution: I added Clear Jel a teaspoon at a time until I got the desired consistency. I also cooked my pie crust in custard cups which made the perfect sized personal pies served hot and ala mode w/ a nice crispy flaky crust.
This Would be good using cinnamon tortilla chips, soft tortillas, dip in melted butter, sprinkle cinnamon sugar on them then bake till crisp. Cut with a pizza cutter into 8 pieces.
That sounds delicious Risa!
Is it ok to bake the pie crust first and then let sit out for s few hours before I serve it?
Yes! A few hours would be fine, but overnight they get soggy. 🙂
Could you use caramel candy squares to put in instead of the jar stuff?