Snickerdoodle Caramel Apple Cobbler

 

I found the original recipe for this at www.krusteaz.com and altered it to suit my tastes.

Ingredients:

1 box Krusteaz Snickerdoodle Cookie Mix

½ cup  melted butter, plus more softened butter to dot on top

1 egg

1 can apple pie filling, cut apples into smaller pieces

Caramel topping (Smucker's or Ghirardelli are both good, get one that’s a squirt bottle, not a jar with a lid that unscrews)

¼ cup cinnamon / sugar mixture (add however much cinnamon you want to ¼ cup sugar)

 

Directions:

Disregard directions on cookie mix box.  Combine the mix, ½ cup melted butter, and egg together and stir until dough forms.  Press half the dough into the bottom of a 8 by 8 inch deep baking dish that's been coated with butter flavored non-stick spray. 

Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes, remove from oven, leave oven turned on.

Combine the spice packet that comes with the cookie mix with the ¼ cup of cinnamon / sugar mixture in a bowl and stir to mix evenly.  Sprinkle a thin layer of it over the baked cookie layer.

Spoon the chopped pie filling into the baking dish next, spreading evenly.  Sprinkle with half of the remaining sugar/cinnamon mixture.  Drizzle caramel topping all over the top, about 1/3 of the container’s worth. 

Using your fingers, pinch little pieces, about dime size, of the dough and drop onto the apple layer to cover the top.  There will be spaces in between the dough where the apples will show.  Don’t press the dough all together to completely hide the apples, just drop the bits of dough onto the surface as evenly as possible until it’s all gone.  Sprinkle the top with remaining sugar/cinnamon mixture. 

 Finally, drizzle more caramel over the top, generously.  Remember, this is a cobbler, and the caramel goo is what makes it so good.  Just put however much you want.  At least another 1/3 of what’s left in the container, minimum. 

Dot the surface with little bits of butter here and there. 

Bake at 350 degrees for about 35 to 40 minutes, or until the cookie layer on top is nicely browned and the center is not sunken. 

You can use ANY flavor canned pie filling you want in this recipe!!!  Blackberry, blueberry, and peach, and strawberry would all be good combinations with the cinnamon and caramel goodness in this recipe.

It's so good!