Caramel Apple-Pear Granola Cream Pie - oats

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine oats, almonds, powdered sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt in a bowl.
• Stir in butter.
• Grease/spray a 9-inch pie pan.
• Press half of oatmeal mixture into bottom and up sides.
• Take remaining half of oatmeal mixture and spread it out onto a greased cookie sheet as if making 1 large cookie.
• Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
• Set aside to cool while making pie filling.
• In a saucepan, whisk together sugars, lemon juice, butter and maple flavor over medium heat.
• In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, cornstarch, cinnamon and salt and sprinkle into sugar mixture in saucepan.
• Mix in sliced apples and pears.
• Cook for about 8 to 10 minutes until mixture starts to thicken.
• Remove from heat.
• Using an electric mixer, whip cream cheese and heavy cream until smooth.
• Stir cream cheese mixture into warm apple mixture until well incorporated.
• Pour filling into prepared pie crust.
• Take baked large "oatmeal cookie" and crumble it into small chunks.
• Sprinkle oatmeal crumble onto pie filling, covering it almost completely.
• Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour at 375 degrees F. Cool at least 30 minutes.
• While pie is cooling, prepare caramel sauce.
• Unwrap caramel candies.
• In the top of a double boiler, melt the caramels in the evaporated milk, stirring constantly until the sauce is smooth and pourable.
• Pour caramel sauce in a zigzag pattern over cooled pie.
• May serve with whipped cream or ice cream, if desired.