Best Ever Apple Cherry Crisp

Fall head over heels in love with this Apple Cherry Crisp recipe, we sure have. Simple, easy, and delicious, this is a holiday must-have.

This Apple Cherry Crisp is a continuation of our recent family kick of cobbler and crisp recipes. This kick-started when we made Best Ever Peach Cobbler and Cherry Cobbler to follow.

I am more of an apple fan when it comes to fruity desserts. Whereas my husband is not.

This Apple Cherry Crisp is the perfect representation of us because it has something we both love and combines to make something out of this world.

Coming out the oven, this recipe just smells like heaven. My kids walked in the door from school and took one whiff and headed straight for the silverware drawer. There was no stopping them, they were going to dig in. I did stop them, letting them know that we would be waiting for daddy to get home. They immediately exclaimed that if we waited, they wouldn’t get in because daddy would eat it all. Since they were right I let them have just a bite.

My husband walked in the door and following exactly what the kids did, he went to grab a spoon and headed to dig in. I stopped him and said, just wait. Then I went to the fridge and grabbed some homemade almond whipped cream {drooling}, then proceeded to top some of the cobbler with it. I then told him, “okay babe, now you can dig in.”

Kids followed and soon before you know it it was gone, more like demolished.

Both my son, Aiden, and my husband told me this was the best crisp they had ever had. EVER! In fact, since making this recipe it has been requested numerous times and it will be gracing our table this Thanksgiving and Christmas.

We g-p back and forth calling this a cobbler or a crisp and many wonder what is the real difference. Well here it is. Both have baked fruit. A crisp is topped with a mixture of some combination of flour, nuts, cereal (especially oatmeal), butter, and sugar. Sometimes is crisp is also called a crumble. A cobbler also has baked fruit topped with a batter or biscuit crust. Our cobbler recipes have cake mix in it (as well as this crisp) hence why we refer to it as a cobbler sometimes. To me, cobbler seems a little sweeter in their topping.

So whether you call it a crumble, cobbler or crisp, it really doesn’t matter. Either way, you need to get this combination of apple and cherry into your belly.

Enjoy this perfect fall treat friends, your family and friends will love this Apple Cherry Crisp recipe just as much as mine do.

Enjoy! XOXO San

How do you make Apple Cherry Crisp?

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Remove stems from all of the cherries and remove seeds.

Peel apples, core them and then slice into quarters.

Then slice each quarter piece into three pieces.

In a large bowl, add cherries, apple slices, lemon juice, cornstarch, brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon.

Gently toss to combine.

Pour cherry mixture into skillet or 2-quart baking dish.

In a medium mixing bowl, combine yellow cake mix, brown sugar, salt and baking powder.

Stir to combine.

Add butter, and using a pastry blender or a fork, cut butter into the mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.

Add crumb topping to cover the cherries entirely.

Set in the oven and bake for 25-35 minutes or until crumb topping is a nice golden brown and the juice from the cherries is bubbling.

Serve immediately or let it cool and serve later, it’s great either way especially with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

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Apple Cherry Crisp

ByBy: Sandra

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Ingredients

 

• ▢ 4 cups cherries pitted and stems removed {if you have some extra cherries leftover, add them in, more cherries the better)
• ▢ 4 Granny Smith Apples cored, peeled and sliced
• ▢ 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
• ▢ 2 teaspoons cornstarch
• ▢ 1/4 cup brown sugar
• ▢ 1/4 cup white sugar
• ▢ 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Crumb Topping

• ▢ 1 1/4 cups yellow cake mix just the mix!
• ▢ 1/4 cup brown sugar
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ▢ 6 tablespoons chilled butter
• ▢ NOTE: You can make this with up to 8 cups of cherries

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Remove stems from all of the cherries and remove seeds.
• Peel apples, cored and then slices into quarters. Then slice each quarter piece into three pieces.
• In a large bowl, add cherries, apple slices, lemon juice, cornstarch, brown sugar, white sugar, vanilla, and cinnamon. Gently toss to combine. Pour cherry mixture into skillet or 2-quart baking dish.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine yellow cake mix, brown sugar, salt, and baking powder. Stir to combine. Add butter, and using a pastry blender or a fork, cut butter into the mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add crumb topping to cover the cherries entirely. Set in the oven and bake for 25-35 minutes or until crumb topping is a nice golden brown and the juice from the cherries is bubbling.
• Serve immediately or let it cool and serve later, it's great either way especially with vanilla ice cream or whipped topping.

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