Description
Portable caramel apple dessert cups with a cookie crust, pudding layer, and cooked apples—no baking needed.
Ingredients
- 3 cups Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and finely diced
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar, packed
- 3 tablespoons salted butter
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 cups crushed vanilla wafers
- ¼ cup salted butter, melted and cooled
- 3.4 ounces instant vanilla pudding mix
- 1¼ cups cold whole milk
- ¾ cup salted caramel sauce, divided (¼ cup + ½ cup)
- 1 cup cold heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- Add the diced apples, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon to a 2‑3 quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir frequently, for about 7‑9 minutes, until apples soften and the brown sugar sauce thickens to an apple‑pie filling consistency. Stir in ¼ cup of salted caramel sauce. Allow the apples to cool completely.
- In a small bowl, stir together the crushed vanilla wafers and melted butter until fully coated. Add the buttered crumbs to the bottom of each dessert cup (using ~2 teaspoons per cup) and tamp down.
- In a medium bowl, mix cold whole milk and instant pudding mix until it begins to thicken (~2‑3 minutes).
- Mix in the remaining ½ cup salted caramel sauce into the pudding mixture.
- Add the cold heavy whipping cream and continue mixing until the pudding mixture has thickened enough to hold its shape when piped into the cups (~3‑4 minutes).
- Pipe the pudding on top of the cookie‑crumb crust, filling about two‑thirds of the cup.
- Spoon the cooled, cooked apples on top of the pudding layer (about 2 teaspoons per cup).
- Place lids on the cups and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Notes
- To Store: Covered dessert cups will keep in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- To Freeze: You can freeze the cups for up to 1 month.
- Make sure you use instant pudding, not the cook & serve kind.
- The apple pieces should be finely diced so they fit nicely in small dessert cups.
- The pudding mixture should be thick enough to hold its shape when piped into the cups.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 140 kcal
- Sugar: 13 g
- Sodium: 104 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 19 mg
