Caramel-Apple Crumble

Ingredients

• 56 ounce fried apples 
• 15  caramels chopped
• 0.5 cup butter cold
• 0.5 cup walnuts chopped
• 12 servings additional walnuts chopped
• 18.3 ounce cake mix without pudding yellow

Equipment

• oven
• blender
• baking pan

Directions

1. Spoon apples into a lightly greased 13" x 9" x 2" baking dish; sprinkle caramels over apples.
2. Cut butter into cake mix with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly; stir in 1/2 cup walnuts.
3. Sprinkle crumb topping over apple mixture.
4. Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 50 minutes to 1 hour or until crumb topping is golden.
5. Serve with vanilla ice cream and caramel syrup, if desired.
6. Sprinkle each serving with additional walnuts.
7. Note: For caramels, we used Kraft. For cake mix, we used Duncan Hines.
8. Note: It's easy to snip caramels with kitchen shears.