Zucchini Pie Bars

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This zucchini pie bar recipe yields amazing apple-tasting mock apple pie bars. The lemon juice adds tartness. Spices and sugar give it the apple pie taste. I used a large zucchini that friends let get too big. As long as you remove the seeds, no one can tell it's not apples. Serve the bars warm with ice cream.

Prep
14 min
Cook
55 min
Servings
Difficulty
Medium

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease sides of a 10x15-inch jelly roll pan.
  2. 2 Whisk flour, 1 ¾ cups sugar, and ½ teaspoon cinnamon together in a large bowl; cut in butter with a fork to make a crumbly dough. Reserve ½ cup dough; set aside.
  3. 3 Press remaining ½ dough firmly into the prepared jelly roll pan.
  4. 4 Bake in the preheated oven until golden, about 10 minutes.
  5. 5 Combine ¾ cup sugar, lemon juice, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, and nutmeg in a large saucepan; add sliced zucchini and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until zucchini begins to soften. Stir in reserved ½ cup dough; cook and stir until mixture thickens, 3 to 5 minutes.
  6. 6 Spread zucchini mixture over crust; press remaining ½ dough lightly on top.
  7. 7 Bake in the preheated oven until top is lightly browned, 35 to 45 minutes. Cool before slicing into 24 bars, about 20 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

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