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Instant Oatmeal Cranberry Apple Crisp

Enjoy this Cranberry Apple Crisp made with fresh cranberries, apple, and instant oatmeal.

It’s one of my favorite times of the year~ cranberry season! I love cranberries!! I mean I really love cranberries. Dried cranberries are good, but they are no match to fresh cranberries. I’m been racking my brain lately to come up with some new recipes made with fresh cranberries. This first one is a keeper. I shared it with friends and they all raved about it. You too will enjoy this Fresh Cranberry Apple Crisp.

Fresh Cranberry Apple Crisp Recipe

2 cups chopped Granny Smith Apple
2 cups fresh cranberries
squirt of lemon juice
1 cup sugar
4 packets of maple & brown sugar instant oatmeal
4 cinnamon graham crackers
1 cup pecans
½ cup butterSpray an 8×8 pan with some cooking spray. Chop the apples (skin on) and place them in the pan with the cranberry. Toss with the lemon juice. Stir in the sugar.
Crush the graham crackers, chop the pecans, and toss in a bowl with the instant oatmeal. Melt the butter and mix it with the dry ingredients. Layer on top of apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

The apples and cranberry were so pretty together, that I almost didn’t want to bake it!! That is OK because the end result was fabulous! My favorite part is the edge of the crisp. The combination of the topping and gooey filling made a perfect crust. I had to control myself from eating it all.

I think last time I posted one of these instant oatmeal fruit crisps that I said it was my favorite. This one is TRULY my favorite!! I know I will be making it a few more times before cranberry season is over. Take it over the top by adding some vanilla ice cream. What about you? Are you a cranberry fan??

Fresh Cranberry Apple Crisp Recipe made with Instant Oatmeal - Looking for a quick dessert recipe using fresh cranberries? Try this Cranberry Apple Crisp Recipe made with Instant Oatmeal. The prep is quick and easy! Taste great topped with vanilla ice cream. #cranberry #apple #dessert

Instant Oatmeal Cranberry Apple Crisp

Create a quick dessert with fresh cranberries using packets of instant oatmeal.

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups chopped Granny Smith Apple
  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • squirt of lemon juice
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 4 packets of maple & brown sugar instant oatmeal
  • 4 cinnamon graham crackers
  • 1 cup pecans
  • ½ cup butter

Instructions

  1. Spray an 8x8 pan with some cooking spray.
  2. Chop the apples (skin on) and place them in the pan with the cranberry.
  3. Toss with the lemon juice.
  4. Stir in the sugar.
  5. Crush the graham crackers, chop the walnuts, and toss in a bowl with the instant oatmeal.
  6. Melt the butter and mix it with the dry ingredients.
  7. Layer on top of the cranberries and apples.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes.
  9. Serve with vanilla ice cream.
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Pumpkin Spice Trifle Cups

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Enjoy these delicious and creamy Pumpkin Spice Trifle Cups at your next holiday get together.

It’s pumpkin season, which is one of my favorite times of the year. I just can’t get enough pumpkin. I love that there are more and more pumpkin flavored foods and drinks out there. I’m always looking for new pumpkin recipes. I have one for you that I call Pumpkin Spice Trifle Cups. It’s gooey goodness!

Pumpkin Spice Trifle Cups

The ingredients for this dessert are fairly simple. You need an angel food cake mix, water, pumpkin puree, vanilla instant pudding mix, whipped topping, and pumpkin spice mix.

The cake is baked ahead of time. The combination of angel food and pumpkin is quite interesting. While I have tried an angel food cake mixed with other canned fruit, this is the first time I have mixed it with pumpkin puree. I really like how it turned out. It’s moist and flavorful. It seems that some of the pumpkin floated to the top, leaving a spongey bottom. I didn’t use all of the cake in the recipe. My daughter and I enjoyed snacking on the cake alone. I’m planning another recipe with this as a base.

The pudding, pumpkin, and whipped topping are mixed to make a pumpkin fluff. I did not use milk with the pudding mix. I liked it so much that I will be making more to dip spice cookies in.

The trifle is made by making layers of the cake, pumpkin fluff, and then whipped topping. I sprinkled pumpkin spice on top of the whipped topping. The spice added more flavor but created a mess. Luckily, I had Scotch-Brite® Scrub Dots Sponges on hand to clean up the mess.

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Pumpkin Spice Trifle Cups
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Ingredients

  • angel food cake mix
  • 2 cans of pumpkin puree (15 oz.)
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 package of vanilla instant pudding mix (3.4 oz)
  • 2 containers of whipped topping, thawed
  • pumpkin spice

Instructions

  1. Mix the angel food mix, 1 can of pumpkin, the water, and 1 tsp. of pumpkin spice until well combined.
  2. Pour into a ungreased 9"x13" casserole dish and bake for 30-35 minutes.
  3. Let cake cool completely before cubing into bite-size pieces.
  4. Mix the pudding mix, the other can of pumpkin, 1 container of whipped topping, and 1 tsp. of pumpkin spice until well combined.
  5. Assemble the trifle by layering cake, pumpkin fluff, and whipped topping. Feel free to make multiple layers.
  6. Sprinkle pumpkin spice on top.
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Candy Corn Bark

Check out this amazing Candy Corn Bark that is perfect for Fall parties.

Over the past year, you’ve seen me post various varieties of my toffee bark. My latest version is based off a favorite fall snack of mine~ candy corn and dry roasted peanuts. Throw in some chocolate and a few more ingredients and you have this candy corn bark.

Have you ever had cracker toffee bark? It is such an amazing combination of flavors. Who would have ever thought that saltine crackers could make a delicious sweet treat? I was skeptical at first, but I was immediately sold. You don’t even taste the crackers. It’s so hard to explain the taste. It’s so addicting that it’s like a drug. That is why we call it crack. Broken apart cracker bark is CRACK!

Candy Corn Bark

The ingredients for this are saltine crackers, butter, brown sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips, candy corn, and dry roasted peanuts.

I took these to my son’s marching band competition and he walked around and shared with his friends. They loved it and understood why we call it crack. No one could eat just one piece. This is definitely one of my favorite versions of this toffee bark!

The candy corn and peanuts go great together! Doesn’t this look fantastic?

This recipe was first posted here at Diana Rambles on 25 Sept 2013.
Candy Corn Bark Recipe - Love chocolate bark? Try this amazing cracker toffee bark that is topped with candy corn and peanuts. It's the best Candy Corn Bark recipe you'll taste!

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Ingredients

  • Saltines (1+ sleeves depending on the size of your cookie sheet)
  • 2 sticks (1 cup) butter
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 12 oz bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • candy corn
  • dry roasted peanuts

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a jelly roll pan
  2. (cookie sheet with little lip around the edge) with cooking spray. I use
  3. a cookie sheet liner instead. Arrange crackers to cover the bottom of
  4. the sheet. Melt
  5. butter, add the brown sugar, and boil for 3 minutes. Pour over the
  6. saltines and put in oven for 5 minutes.
  7. Remove and sprinkle chocolate chips on top. When the chips look glossy
  8. (about 2 minutes) spread the melted chips evenly across the top.
  9. Sprinkle candy corn & peanuts on top. Press in place. Refrigerate for about an hour or until hard. Break apart and share!
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie

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Enjoy the taste of Oreo O’s in this No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie.

Over the weekend we attended a housewarming barbecue at a friend’s house. Funny thing is these people moved into their house six years ago. I think the house was already warm. They asked that no one bring gifts, just a side dish or dessert. My daughter has been eating a lot of peanut butter lately, so I was inspired to create something with peanut butter. While there are some great savory dishes with peanuts, I felt that dessert was the way to go. We’ve had some record-breaking temperatures lately, so I wanted to create a dessert that required no baking. That is how I came up with this No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie.

I love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate. I didn’t want to take another trip to the store to get ingredients for a chocolate crust so I looked at what I had on hand. There were several boxes of Oreo O’s cereal, which I thought would make a great crust. I thought it would be fun to use a cereal in a dessert recipe.

No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie

This recipe requires Oreo O’s, butter, vanilla instant pudding mix, milk, peanut butter, vanilla extract (not pictured), whipped topping, and peanut butter chips. The peanut butter can be either smooth or crunchy. Smooth was used in the pie I made.

Crush the Oreo O’s in a food processor. Add in the butter to make the crust. Combine the pudding ingredients with the vanilla, whipped topping, and peanut butter. Mix in some peanut butter chips. Spoon the pudding mixture into the crust. Top with the remaining ingredients. Refrigerate before serving.

This creamy peanut butter pie turned out pretty good. The kids enjoyed picking the Oreo O’s off the top of the pie.

The return of Oreo O’s cereal has been exciting because I love Oreos! It’s crunchy chocolate O’s with that OREO® cookie taste you love. It has a rich creme coating gives your milk a yummy cookie taste.

While Oreo O’s is a returning Post cereal, Honey Maid S’mores is brand new. This cereal gives you the chocolate, marshmallow, and Honey Maid Graham Cracker taste of s’mores without having to go camping. It’s quite tasty with milk, but also makes a great snack on the go. My daughter likes to take a small bag full of them to snack on after ballet.

Both Oreo O’s and Honey Maid S’mores can be found in the cereal aisle at Walmart. Which one of these great classic tastes will you be picking up on your next trip to Walmart?
Enjoy the pie! Check out my other desserts.
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie - Looking for a peanut butter dessert? Try this Chocolate Peanut Butter Pudding Pie recipe. This easy creamy recipe has a strong peanut butter taste with a touch of chocolate from the Oreo O's crust.

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Ingredients

  • 4 1/2 cups Oreo O's cereal
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 package vanilla instant pudding mix
  • 1 cup cold milk
  • 1 cup peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 container whipped topping, thawed
  • 1 cup peanut butter chips

Instructions

  1. Crush 4 cups of the Oreo O's in a food processor.
  2. Melt the butter and mix it with the crushed cereal.
  3. Press the Oreo O's mixture into a pie plate.
  4. Mix the pudding mix with the milk.
  5. Stir in the vanilla.
  6. Stir the peanut butter into the pudding mixture.
  7. Fold in half of the whipped topping.
  8. Stir in 3/4 of the peanut butter chips.
  9. Spoon the pudding mixture into the pie plate on top of the crust. Smooth into place.
  10. Smooth the rest of the whipped topping onto the top of the pie.
  11. Sprinkle the top of the pie with the rest of the peanut butter chips and the Oreo O's.
  12. Chill at least 1 hour before serving.
  13. Store leftovers in the refrigerator.
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Apple Spice Dump Cake

Happy Fall, Y’all! Here is a recipe for an incredible apple spice dump cake that is easy to make and SUPER tasty!Apple Spice Dump Cake Recipe - This Apple Spice Dump Cake uses fresh apples and simple ingredients and tastes like fall with every bite!

I love the colors and flavors of autumn. All those pumpkins, apples, and spices. I don’t like that fall means winter is coming, but it’s certainly my favorite season food wise. Today I have an amazing new cake recipe for you using apples. I have to say that I really hit the lottery on this apple spice dump cake. As I went to take photos of the cake, I tasted a little bit of it. It took all the restraint I had to NOT eat it before the photos. It’s that good!

Apple Spice Dump Cake Recipe

Yesterday, I showed you how to create a spice cake mix out of a yellow cake mix. I wanted to use a spice cake mix in this recipe, but I could not find one in stores. The spices are the cornerstone of this recipe, so either buy one or make your own using the directions I provided yesterday. 

Once you have your spice cake mix, this recipe goes together quickly. You just peel and dice the apple, mix it up with a few other ingredients, and then dump it all into your baking dish.

Serve it with vanilla bean ice cream, although it stands alone and is delicious without.Apple Spice Dump Cake Recipe with Ice Cream on top

I so love dump cakes. I’ve created many over the years and will continue to come up with new varieties. They are fun and easy, and so delicious. I create them to take to potlucks and parties, and there are always people asking for the recipe. I love how adaptable they are. I’ve created several in the dutch oven while camping. We have some fall camping trips planned in October, so I will have to try this one out in the dutch oven! Are you a dump cake fan?
Apple Spice Dump Cake Recipe - Looking for an easy dessert recipe with apples? Try this easy Apple Spice Dump Cake recipe. It's so good that everyone will be raving about it.

Yields 24 servings

Apple Spice Dump Cake
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Ingredients

  • 4 to 5 granny smith apples (approximately 4 cups)
  • 1 can evaporated milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cinnamon
  • 1 spice cake mix
  • 1 cup chopped pecans
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter

Instructions

  1. Spray a 9x13" baking dish with cooking spray.
  2. Core, peel, and dice the apples.
  3. In a mixing bowl, mix the apples, evaporated milk, eggs, sugar, and cinnamon.
  4. Pour this apple mixture into the bottom of the baking dish.
  5. Sprinkle the cake mix on top of the apple mixture.
  6. Sprinkle the chopped pecans on top of the cake mix.
  7. Cut the butter into thin pieces and place on top of the dish.
  8. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 45-50 minutes.
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