Cranberry Apple Tree Casserole {Or Crisp ... Or Crunch}

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When served upwardly amongst a scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream, it's a delicious dessert.  It's a casserole, it's a crisp, it's a compaction ...  YOU GET THREE DISHES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!  {but solely if y'all telephone cry upwardly inward the adjacent 10 minutes!} ... okay, simply kidding on that concluding part.

As I've said inward the past, I'm non a huge cranberry sauce fan ... except for our family's Thanksgiving twenty-four lx minutes menstruation Cabernet Cranberry Sauce, ... thence I accept my cranberry create sum inward other forms.  Like this dish.

And, seriously, this dish rattling tin serve equally a fabulous side dish for turkey or ham, equally a breakfast or brunch cranberry treat, or equally a dessert, much like traditional apple tree crisp.

Recipes for this Cranberry Apple Casserole seem in, I youngster y'all not, no less than half dozen of my church/womens' gild cookbooks ... with most referring to it equally a 'casserole,' together with others calling it a 'crisp' or 'crunch.'  I decided to stick amongst what appeared to survive the most pop nurture - 'casserole.'  (Which is too what it's called inward the cookbook I'm citing equally my recipe root ... my church's cookbook.  We receive got around fabulous cooks inward our church!)

All y'all produce to line this dish together is toss around fresh cranberries, chopped apple, together with saccharide together inward a baking dish.  Then hand it amongst a mixture of oats, flour, chocolate-brown sugar, together with butter ... simply similar a traditional 'crisp.'

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Cranberry Apple Crunch

Source:  Adapted from Lutheran Chapel Cooks amongst {More} Love (... which happens to survive my church's cookbook!)

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients 

Filling:

two c. fresh cranberries, rinsed

iii c. peeled chopped tart apple tree (such equally Rome, McIntosh, or Granny Smith)

1 c. sugar

1 tsp. soil cinnamon

Pinch of soil cloves

Pinch of salt

Topping:

1/2 c. chocolate-brown sugar

1/3 c. all-purpose flour

1 c. old-fashioned oats

3/4 c. chopped pecans

1/2 c. (1 stick) butter, melted

Directions

For the Filling:  

1.  Place cranberries, chopped apple, together with saccharide inward the bottom of a 9x13" baking dish that has been lightly sprayed amongst non-stick cooking spray.  

2.  Sprinkle the soil cinnamon, soil cloves, together with common salt on top; toss to coat.

For the Topping:  

3.  Melt the butter inward a mixing bowl.  Add remaining topping ingredients together with toss to combine.  Sprinkle topping evenly over the fruit mixture.

4.  Bake, uncovered, at 325 degrees for 1 hour.

5.  Serve warm or cold, equally a side dish amongst turkey or ham, equally a breakfast/brunch dish, or equally a dessert amongst H2O ice cream.

Enjoy!