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Cranberry Pecan Streusel Crunch Pie

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This pie combines the jewel like color and tart flavor of cranberries, orange zest with a pecan oat streusel topping. It is a perfect balance of tart and sweet, crunchy and chewy and flaky!

Ingredients

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  • 1 Unbaked Pie Crust

Cranberry Filling:

  • 4 1/2 Cups of Fresh Cranberries (original recipe said you can use frozen- I did not).
  • 1 Cup White Granulated Sugar
  • Orange Zest from one Orange OR 2 Clementines (I like the taste of orange and cranberry so I add more)
  • 1/8 Teaspoon Salt
  • 1 Tablespoon of Cornstarch

Streusel Topping:

  • 2/3 Cup Rolled Oats
  • 1/2 Cup Flour
  • 1/3 Cup White Granulated Sugar
  • 1/3 Cup Dark Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon
  • 1/4 Teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 Cup Pecan Pieces
  • 6 Tablespoons Butter, melted and cooled

 

Instructions

For Cranberry Filling

  1. Combine cranberries, orange zest, sugar, cornstarch, salt in a saucepan over medium heat and begin to cook. Some of the cranberries will pop or leak juices, which is perfect. Continue to stir and cook for approximately 5-7 minutes. Allow filling to cool slightly. (I waited about 10-12 minutes).
  2. Pour cooled filling into pie shell.

For Streusel Topping:

  1. Using a food processor, grind oats and pecans for a coarse grind, add additional ingredients except butter. Pulse processor to combine all streusel ingredients.
  2. Combine Streusel ingredients with melted and cooled butter until crumbled in texture.
  3. Sprinkle topping over cranberry filling.

Bake pie for 50 minutes or more or until the cranberry filling is bubbling up through the streusel topping. If pie crust begins to brown too much while filling is cooking, cover edges of pie with foil to protect from burning.

 

Notes

While cooking this pie, I erred on the side of longer, waiting for the cranberry filling to really bubble up through the streusel topping. It did mean my cooking time was longer, but the result was worth the wait. The cranberries cooked down but retained their consistency, the crumble topping browned nicely, and it was all over a beautiful pie to cut into!

Find it online: https://mythankfultable.com/2017/12/04/cranberry-pecan-streusel-crunch-pie/