Apple Orange Cranberry Bake

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.

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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.

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