Dutch Oven Apple Crisp with Cranberries

This Dutch Oven Apple Crisp recipe is the best fall dessert! Sliced apples and cranberries are topped with a sweet cinnamon oat topping. This apple crisp is dairy-free and is a must-make for the holiday season.

🌟Why You'll Love this Recipe

• Simple and easy to make. This apple crisp is made with warm juicy apples, tart cranberries and topped with a crispy crumble. The crisp is similar to apple pie but much easier to make and is the perfect ending to any meal! This is the perfect easy recipe to make after apple picking.
• Full of fall flavors and spices. Warm apples and cinnamon are one of the best flavor combos. This is a great fall dessert. If you love fall flavors, you will also like my Maple Swirl Pumpkin Muffins, Salted Maple Donuts and Sweet Potato Pie Bars.
• Easier to make than apple pie. I am a huge apple pie fan but sometimes it just takes too much time to make. Apple crisp has all the same flavors but is much easier to throw together, especially last minute.

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• 🔪Instructions
• 💭Recipe FAQs
• 👩🏻‍🍳Chef Tips
• Serving
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🥘Ingredients and Substitutions

• Apples- this recipe uses a combination of Granny Smith apples and Honeycrisp apples.
• Cranberries- fresh or frozen cranberries will work in this apple crisp. Don't use dried or sweetened cranberries.
• Brown sugar- provides a deep caramel flavor that goes great with the fruit in this crisp. You can also use white sugar or coconut sugar if needed. Coconut sugar has a similar flavor to brown sugar.
• Flour- use regular flour or make it gluten-free. Bob's Red Mill 1:1 baking flour, is a great substitute for all-purpose flour.
• Coconut oil- use virgin, unrefined or refined coconut oil and ensure it is melted. You can also use melted butter or avocado oil.

See the recipe card below for the remaining ingredients and quantities.

🔪Instructions

1. Prepare the apples. Begin by peeling, coring and slicing your apples thinly.
2. Make the apple filling. Combine apples with the cranberries and the rest of the filling ingredients in a large bowl. Pour the apple mixture into the bottom of your Dutch oven.
3. Make the crumble. Mix oats with flour, sugar, spices, oil and baking powder. Sprinkle the crust mix over the apples and cranberries.
4. Bake the crisp in the preheated oven until it is slightly golden and bubbling.

💭Recipe FAQs

👩🏻‍🍳Chef Tips

• I recommend using a mix of sweet and tart apples. The cranberries will also provide their own tartness to this recipe.
• Use a large Dutch oven, I recommend one that is 10-12 inches in size. You can also use a larger cast iron pan.
• This recipe would be great to make on a camping trip or any other time you are cooking over an open fire.
• Slice the apples thinly so they cook completely and are soft when you dig in.
• To reheat, you can put the Dutch oven back into the oven at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes or at 200 degrees F if you wish to heat it while enjoying a meal. Just keep an eye on it so the topping doesn't burn! You can also heat individual servings in the microwave for 30 seconds-1 minute.

Serving

• The apple and cranberry crisp is best served fresh out of the oven so the fruit is warm and the top is crisp.
• This dessert can be enjoyed perfectly on its own or with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top! To keep it dairy-free, I love using coconut milk ice cream. My favorites are So Delicious and Cosmic Bliss.
• It would also be delicious with yogurt as a sweet breakfast alternative or even as a snack.

Enjoy this on Thanksgiving or Christmas after eating my Cranberry Orange Chicken Thighs or one of these Holiday Air Fryer recipes.

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