This is a delicious whole food Bake made without flour, so it has a wonderful chewy density, beautifully flavoured with whole cranberries, apple and orange.
Apple Orange Cranberry Bake (Serves 4-6)
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 4 ounces whole cranberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
- 1 cup fresh apple, diced
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ cup almonds, chopped
- 2 cups (24 ounces) unsweetened applesauce
- juice of 1 orange
- ½ orange, with peel on
- ¼ cup date paste or 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon liquid stevia
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix oats, cranberries, diced apple, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, and almonds together in a large bowl.
Add applesauce, orange juice, ½ orange (with peel on), date paste or maple syrup, stevia and vanilla to a food processor and process well.
Add the wet ingredients from the processor to the dry ingredients in the bowl and mix well.
Press into an 8” x 8” baking dish.
Bake for 45 minutes.
Cranberry Topping (Optional)
- 4 ounces whole cranberries, fresh or frozen and thawed
- ½ orange, with ¼ of the rind still on
- 1 apple, cored
- 4 dates, chopped
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon liquid stevia
- ¼ cup raisins
Add all ingredients except the raisins to a food processor and process to a fine chunkiness.
Put all this with the raisins into a small pan and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes.
Top the bake with this, or spoon it over the pieces of bake as they are served.