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July 16, 2020

Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries… both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

Cranberry Apple Crisp Recipe

Welcome to Day 1 of Christmas in July!!! Yes, you read that right… CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

Growing up, my mom would always take me and my siblings to “Christmas in July” celebrations in our community. Usually, they were humble church bazaars where folks sold crafts and homemade baked goods. My mom would usually give us each a couple of dollars to spend. And – no surprise here – I always spent mine on DESSERT!

Have you ever attended a Christmas in July celebration?

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

I honestly haven’t thought about CIJ in ages!!! But last week, I was randomly flipping through the TV stations and landed on the Hallmark Channel. They were playing a cute but cheesy holiday movie. And I stuck around long enough to learn they’re actually playing holiday movies ALL month long, in celebration of Christmas in July! And then it struck me… why not do this on the blog!

So for the rest of this month, I’ll be sharing new holiday-inspired recipes with you. Starting with this absolutely delicious Cranberry Apple Crisp! This is a humble dessert that’s SO comforting! And it’s absolutely delicious with a few scoops of vanilla ice cream on top!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

What the Heck is a Crisp?

If you’ve never made a crisp recipe before, you might be wondering what exactly to expect! So allow me to lift the veil of mystery and explain to you the simple glory of a crisp!

In short, a crisp typically consists of a juicy fruit filling and a crunchy, butter crisp topping.

Here, our fruit base is made up of cranberries, apples, orange zest and juice, sugar, flour, and some warm spices like ginger, cardamon, and cinnamon. The combination of brown sugar and granulated sugar adds depth of flavor, so I highly suggest using both if you can!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

And then there’s the buttery oat tipping! Made with rolled oats, sugar, cinnamon, flour, and butter, it comes together in minutes and is sprinkled on top of the cranberry apple mixture!

The next and final step is to bake! You can use a large 9×13-inch baking dish or a 12″ cast iron skillet, and you can save a mixing bowl by making the cranberry apple mixture right in the dish! No need to spray with cooking spray, but a swipe of butter will help avoid sticking!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

Bake until the fruit is tender, bubbling, and smells intoxicating! This will take about 55 to 60 minutes, but it’s well worth the wait. And since it’s the “holidays”, why not kill some time by making yourself a cranberry apple moscow mule?!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

Once you pull the dish from the oven, serve warm, with whipped cream or ice cream!

This recipe will serve a crowd if you need it to! If you scoop about a 1/3 cup into each bowl, you should get about 10 servings! That said… I’ve seen 4 people polish off an entire skillet, so be prepared for this one to fly off the table! The good news? You can always bake two trays at the same time, if need be!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

More Crisp Recipes:

  • Best Bourbon Pecan Peach Crisp
  • Chai Spice Apple Crisp
  • The Best Blueberry Crisp
  • Strawberry Crisp
  • Salted Caramel Apple Crisp
  • The Best Apple Crisp Bars

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!
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Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp

Prep 15 mins

Cook 55 mins

Total 1 hour, 10 mins

Author Ashley Manila

Yield 10 servings

If you love cranberries and apples, you have to try this Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp! Featuring juicy apples, tart cranberries, and a buttery oat crumble topping! Use fresh cranberries or frozen cranberries... both work great! Perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas dessert!

Ingredients

For the Apple Cranberry Filling:

  • 8 cups apples (about 9 medium-sized apples), peeled and sliced into 1/4" slices 
  • 2 cups cranberries, fresh or frozen (If using frozen, do not thaw)
  • 2 Tablespoons orange juice
  • 2 teaspoons orange zest 
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed 
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 

For the Oatmeal Crisp Topping:

  • 8 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into cubes 
  • 1 and 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
  • 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 

Instructions

For the Apple Cranberry Filling:

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees (F). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish with butter. 
  2. Place the sliced apples and cranberries in a large bowl and toss with the orange juice and zest.
  3. Sprinkle the flour, sugars, and spices on top of the fruit and toss well to coat.
  4. Pour fruit mixture into prepared baking dish and set aside while you make the crumb topping.

For the Oatmeal Crisp Topping:

  1. In a large bowl, combine the oats, both sugars, cinnamon and flour. Add in the cubed butter and, using two forks or a pastry blender, cut the butter into the dry ingredients until mixture resembles a coarse meal.
  2. Sprinkle the topping evenly over the fruit mixture.
  3. Place the pan in the oven and bake for 55 to 60 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and the fruit is bubbling.
  4. Remove from the oven and place the pan on a cooling rack. Serve warm! Preferably with ice cream. 

Courses Dessert

Cuisine American

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Filed Under: Apple Recipes, Christmas, Crisp Recipes, Thanksgiving

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  1. Nicole says

    December 23, 2020 at 4:23 pm

    Can this be made ahead of time? What would you recommend for reheating?

    Reply
  2. Eve Remillard says

    January 1, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    Way too much flour in the topping! I think it could have been cut back to 3/4 of a cup. The topping really overwhelmed the delicious fruit of this crisp.

    Reply

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