I am here for this easy and delicious holiday dessert! Let’s make something easy, but that’s also tasty and uses in-season ingredients like fresh cranberries. Cranberry apple crisp is the perfect mix of sweet and tart, baked until bubbling with a crumbly topping. A scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce is all you need to complete this and your dessert is ready to go! It’s good enough to be your dessert after Christmas dinner, but it’s easy enough to make any day of the week. Sometimes, a simple and rustic dessert is exactly what you need. The most time-consuming part of this dessert is peeling and slicing the apples, everything else is a breeze!
To make this easy cranberry apple crisp, start by peeling, coring, and slicing 6 large apples. For this recipe, I love using honeycrisp apples but go ahead and use your favorite! Throw your apples right into the baking dish with two cups of fresh cranberries. Toss with sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and lemon juice. In a medium bowl, mix together the ingredients for your topping. Brown sugar, rolled oats, flour, salt, cinnamon and butter. Sprinkle over your fruit and bake until bubbling. Serve your cranberry apple crisp warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and caramel drizzle. The caramel drizzle and vanilla ice cream are both optional, but they truly make the dish.
Once you make this dessert once and see how easy it is, you’ll want to make it again and again.
- 6 apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
- 2 cups fresh cranberries
- 3 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ½ tsp. nutmeg
- Juice of ½ a lemon
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup rolled oats
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ⅛ tsp. salt
- ½ tsp. cinnamon
- ½ cup butter, softened
- Caramel sauce
- Vanilla ice cream
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In a large baking dish, place apples and cranberries. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and drizzle with lemon juice. Toss to combine.
- In a medium bowl, mix together the topping ingredients. Combine brown sugar, oats, flour, salt, and cinnamon. Add the butter and mix until well combined. Sprinkle the mixture over the fruit.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes until the crisp is bubbling and the top is golden brown.
- Serve warm with vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of caramel sauce.
- Enjoy!
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[…] On our Christmas menu this year, we have beef tenderloin, my green bean casserole, twice-baked mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, stuffed mushrooms, and of course this pomegranate salad! I’m still not sure what to make for dessert. Last year I made a red velvet cake but with just the six of us celebrating together, I had so much leftover. This year I might make my cranberry apple crisp. […]