Tender baked apples and dried cranberries covered in a sweet, cinnamon-y, crunchy topping...perfect with a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt or some whipped topping!

I'll be honest, when I first saw this recipe as a choice to make for my Allrecipes assignment this month, I was not sure it would turn out.  The recipe comes from the Pam® collection of recipes on Allrecipes.com.  The original recipe called for Granny Smith apples, but I knew with the relatively short bake time and no added sugar to the apples, that variety of apple in this recipe would be way too tart and hard for my liking.  I decided to use Honeycrisp apples in place of the Granny Smith apples and I had great success.  Not only is this recipe super easy, it has a little sugar compared to most recipes like it.

You really do not need to add any sugar to the apple mixture if you use apples that are already sweet, and the sweetened dried cranberries add additional sweetness too.  The top bakes up nice and crispy , which is such a nice contrast with the tender apples.

One word of caution, be sure to only PULSE the oat mixture in the food processor.  It processes very quickly and you'll want to leave a little bit of texture to the topping.

Easy Apple Cranberry Crisp

By Renee's Kitchen Adventures
Adapted from Allrecipes.com

Tender sweet apples and dried cranberries come together in this super easy crisp recipe from Pam®

Ingredients

• Pam® No-stick cooking spray (I used butter flavor)
• 6 large sweet apples (such as Honeycrisp or Cortland), peeled, cored and cut into 1/4" slices
• 1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
• 3/4 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup Old Fashioned rolled oats
• 1/3 cup all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1/2 cup unsalted cold butter, cut into cubes

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray a 9"x13" baking dish with cooking spray.
2. Place sliced apples in dish. Sprinkle with dried cranberries and mix up a little.
3. In food processor with blade attachment in place, combine the brown sugar, oats, flour, cinnamon, salt. Give it a few pulses to combine. Add in the cold, cubed butter and pulse a few more times, until butter is the size of peas.
4. Sprinkle the oat mixture evenly ontop of the apple-cranberry mixture. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until filling is bubbly and topping is browned. Serve warm with frozen yogurt or whipped topping. (optional)

Yield: 8 servings
Prep Time: 00 hrs. 10 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 40 mins.
Total time: 50 mins.
Tags: apples, crisp, easy recipe, cranberries, dessert, cinnamon

Servings - 12   Serving Size - 1/12 of recipe   Points Plus Per Serving - 7 Points+
Calories - 215.3,   Total Fat - 8.2g,   Carb. - 42g,   Protein - 1.1g,   Fiber - 3g

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This was a really delicious fall treat perfect for all those lovely apples coming to the farm markets and grocery stores this time of year!  Give it a try, I know you will enjoy it!

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