These Apple Cranberry Mini Pies are an award winning healthy holiday dessert that the whole family will enjoy!
This month’s recipe redux theme “Trimming the Table” is having us share a healthy holiday dessert that we will be sharing with our family and friends this holiday season! The recipe I decided to share is one that I have been cooking up for my family for the past three years. It’s an oldie but goodie. So good it won Healthiest Holiday Pie on a Today Show segment back in 2013!



Apple Cranberry Mini Pies
Author: Lauren Sharifi, RD LDN
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Serves: 12
Ingredients
- CRUST
- 10 cinnamon graham cracker sheets ( ~ 1 ½ cups crushed )
- ⅓ cup chopped pecans
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons milk, fat-free
- FILLING
- 3 medium (4 small) apples, peeled and diced
- 1 cup cranberries, fresh
- ½ teaspoon orange zest
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup maple syrup
- ⅛ cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons corn starch
- TOPPING
- ¼ cup old fashioned oats
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons milk, fat-free
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Pre–heat oven to 350 degrees. Fill 12 cup muffin tin with muffin liners.
- To make crust. Crumble graham crackers and pecans in food processor, add oil and milk and combine until smooth. Evenly fill muffin tins with ~ 3 tablespoons of crust mixture. Press crust mixture down evenly into muffin cups. Bake crust in pre-heated oven for 5 minutes.
- To make filling. Combine apples, cranberries, orange zest and cinnamon. In a separate dish, mix cornstarch with orange juice to dissolve. Pour orange juice mixture and maple syrup over fruit mixture and combine. Evenly fill crusts with fruit mixture.
- To make topping. Mix together all topping ingredients and then sprinkle over the top of the fruit mixture.
- Bake mini pies in oven for 25-30 minutes.
Serving size: 1 mini pie Calories: 180 Fat: 6 g Saturated fat: 1 g Carbohydrates: 30 g Fiber: 2 g Protein: 2 g
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Notes:
- Don’t have fresh cranberries? You can use frozen instead or 1/2 cup of dried cranberries.
- The pies are best warmed up. Simply place in the oven or toaster oven at 350 degrees for 5-7 minutes.
- These mini pies are healthy enough to enjoy for breakfast! Just top with vanilla Greek or siggi’s yogurt.
Looking for other healthy holiday treats? Try my No-Bake Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes
Love apples and cranberries? Try my Naturally Sweet Apple Cranberry Compote

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