Best Fruit Crunch Recipes

TROPICAL-FRUIT SALAD WITH COCONUT CRUNCH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk egg white with honey, vanilla, lemon zest and juice, poppy seeds, and salt until foamy and thoroughly combined. Stir in coconut to evenly coat; spread on a rimmed baking sheet in a thin layer.
• Bake, stirring a few times, until golden in places, 22 to 25 minutes. Let cool completely (mixture will crisp as it cools). Rub between your fingers, breaking up any clumps, until crumbled.
• Arrange fruits on a platter; sprinkle with coconut crunch to serve. Fruits can be loosely covered with plastic, without coconut crunch, and refrigerated up to 8 hours. Coconut crunch can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.

FRUIT CRUNCH SUNDAE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Toss the oats, coconut, almonds, oil, and honey together in a large bowl until they are completely combined. Pour onto a sheet pan and bake, stirring occasionally with a spatula, until the mixture turns a nice, even golden brown, about 20 minutes.
• Remove the granola from the oven and allow to cool, stirring once.
• Combine the strawberries, blueberries, and pineapple in a bowl. In 4 ice cream sundae glasses, layer first the fruit, then the yogurt, and the cooled granola alternately until you fill the glasses. Serve with a long spoon.

CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH™ FRUIT, NUTS AND SEEDS MIX

Steps:

• In large bowl, mix all ingredients. Store in airtight container.

TROPICAL FRUIT WITH COCONUT-PISTACHIO CRUNCH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Toss together pistachios, coconut, oil, honey, lemon zest, cayenne, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Spread on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet and bake, stirring once, until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Let cool completely. Crunch can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 3 days.
• Arrange fruits on a serving platter. Sprinkle with lemon juice and a pinch of salt. Serve, with crunch on the side.

TROPICAL DRIED FRUIT CHOC CHIP COOKIES WITH A CRUNCH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and lightly spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.
• Combine butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg and vanilla; mix well.
• Sift together flower and baking powder, gradually incorporate into wet mixture.
• Fold in remaining ingredients.
• Drop heaping spoonfuls or roll 1 inch balls of batter onto cookie sheet; bake 15 minutes until tops are golden brown.

WINTER FRUIT CRUNCH

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• 2. Place the oats, the flour, the salt and the brown sugar in a food processor and process to blend the mixture. Add the butter and process until the ingredients are coarsely mixed.
• 3. Place the apples in an oval, 8 1/2 by 12-inch oven proof baking dish. Mix the cinnamon with the vanilla sugar and sprinkle it over the apples. Mound the oat mixture atop the apples, covering them as evenly as possible.
• 4. Bake in the oven until the topping is golden and the apples are baked through, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Remove from the oven and let cool to room temperature before eating.

OH-SO-EASY FRUIT SALAD WITH A CRUNCH

Steps:

• In a large serving bowl, add fruit in order given.
• Sprinkle lemon zest over fruit; stir all.
• Drizzle syrup over everything, stir again.
• Serve!
• How easy was THAT?.
• VARIATIONS: Figure one fruit per serving (5 fruits = five servings), so try some others--mango or peach chunks, pitted sweet cherries, hulled strawberries, grapes, ripe raspberries or blueberries---do NOT add too many different fruits or the flavors sort of turn to an indefinable "mush"---double up instead.
• SUBSTITUTIONS: Honey=syrup; orange zest=lemon.
• IDEA: try it warmed up in the microwave OR serve warm over puff pancakes or waffles.

FRUIT CRUNCH

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350^. Grease an 8-in. square baking dish. Set aside. Combine flour, oatmeal and brown sugar. Cut in butter until crumbly.
• Place a little over 1/2 of the mixture in a greased 8-inch square baking dish.
• Cover with the pineapple or other filling. Top with remaining crumbs. Bake for 50 minutes.It must be very crisp. Serve with ice cream of whipped topping.