I am both late and early with this recipe idea. This Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble is another great repurposing of Thanksgiving leftovers. Add it to the list or bookmark it now for next year. If you still have some of these ingredients in your refrigerator or pantry, just roll them over into this Christmas dessert. An easy layering of fruit, sour cream, and streusel, this recipe used up several of the leftover ingredients from my Thanksgiving meal.
This Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble is also a lovely idea for Christmas dinner. Additionally, if you are also cooking for Christmas eve, this recipe is extremely easy to throw together and a real time saver. The creamy apple and cranberry flavored under layers of this dessert are topped with crispy, sugary streusel with hints of caramel and cinnamon. The seasonal flavors of this Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble fit any Fall or Winter holiday.
I always buy extra fresh cranberries at Thanksgiving time, finding them useful as pretty garnish for various holiday dishes. Also, they seem to keep forever in the refrigerator. There they were looking fresh as ever a few weeks after Thanksgiving. I did not want to push my luck. It was time to use them up. Additionally, I had a few apples in the crisper. Other leftover ingredients incuded sour cream, heavy cream, walnuts and brown sugar. Consequently, everything was thrown into this Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble recipe.
SUBSTITUTION IDEAS:
Turn this Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble into something else. Instead of brown sugar, you can substitute white granulated. Swap out the apples for pears. Exchange the walnuts for almonds, or better yet, almond flour. The sour cream is thinned a bit with cream before reading into the dish. If you want to lighten up the fat and calories, use reduced fat sour cream and half and half or a lighter version of the cream.
TIP:
I had some leftover homemade cranberry sauce hanging out in my freezer. Consequently, I threw dollops of that on top of the fruit layer before covering with the sour cream layers. A great idea, definitely giving this Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble a significant flavor boost. If you did not make homemade cranberry sauce this year, throw in any leftovers from the canned version. No judgment here.
Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons lemon zest
- 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup ground walnuts
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 4 apples
- 1/2 cup fresh cranberries
- 1/3 – 1/2 cup leftover cranberry sauce optional
- 2 tablespoons apple brandy
- 2 cups sour cream
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
Instructions
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Grease a 9 x 13 casserole dish and set aside.
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Place the zest, flour, sugar, ground walnuts, and cinnamon in a bowl. Whisk to combine.
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Cut the butter into the mixture in small pieces and use your hands to mix everything together, rubbing it between your palms to create streusel crumbs.
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Cover the bowl loosely with clean kitchen towel and place in the refrigerator.
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Preheat the oven to 425 F.
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Peel and core the apples. cut them into rings a little less than 1/2 inch thick.
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Lay the apple rings down into the prepared casserole dish.
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Scatter the cranberries on top of the apple rings.
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If you have leftover cranberry sauce, dollop tablespoon fulls intermittently on top of the fruit.
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Sprinkle apple brandy on top.
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In a separate bowl, whisk together the sour cream and heavy cream.
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Spread the cream mixture over the fruit in the dish.
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Remove the streusel from the refrigerator and scatter it evenly over the top of the cream layer.
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Place the dish in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
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turn the heat down to 350 degrees F and bake for another 10 minutes.
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Remove from oven, let cool 15-20 minutes before cutting and serving.
Like this Apple Cranberry Sour Cream Streusel Crumble? Try some of my other apple dessert recipes:
