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When you think spring time sweets do you ever think apples? Many people I know tell me apples are a fall fruit. I say it's an any time you want to eat it fruit. I love frying up some Rainier Fruits apples and making a Easter Brunch Apple Fritter Casserole recipe. You can make it any time of year and call it insert holiday here brunch apple fritter casserole recipe or simply apple fritter casserole recipe. If you limit yourself to apples in only the fall then you are missing out my friend.

Apple Fritter Casserole Recipe

You can make the apple fritter casserole recipe with premade croissant rolls but I usually prefer this made with the cinnamon rolls. I also add apple butter to the fried apples as they are simmering. A little extra flavors added in I think without making it too much. Rainier Fruits sent me a box of honeycrisp and lady alice apples but this can be made with just about any type of apple you prefer. My Nana used to tell me only some types of apples were good for baking (granny smith is her go to for baking with apples).

I had Jersey Boy prep four apples for me (peel, core, and dice) while I started the sauce for the apples. I melted a stick of butter and added a ½ cup of brown sugar, ½ cup of Dixie Crystals sugar, 2 Tbs. Adam's Best vanilla cinnamon sugar and stirred until the sugars were dissolved in with the melted butter. Then the diced apples were added to the pan and tossed in the butter/sugar mix. I also added the apple butter in at the same time as well.

When the apples are softened (after cooking on medium for about 8 minutes), they are ready to go in the casserole dish with the raw dough cut up cinnamon rolls. Mix it all up and put it in the oven- for the baby and me. Sorry I got carried away a little as Kaylee's favorite song right now is pat-a-cake.

Bake the apple fritter casserole in the oven for 30-45 minutes. With the oven in my apartment and using the Anolon 9" stoneware baking dish from their Vesta collection the apple fritter casserole is golden brown on top and baked completely at 35 minutes. For the icing drizzle you can either use the pre-made icing from the cinnamon roll cans or make your own. Some folks don't like the canned stuff and if you make this with croissants instead of the cinnamon rolls you may not have the pre-made stuff on hand already open. To make the icing you mix together cream cheese, butter, vanilla, milk, and gradually mix in confectioners sugar until smooth. Drizzle the icing and serve your apple fritter casserole recipe immediately while it's still warm.

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Check out the amazing #EasterSweetsWeek recipes from our bloggers today!

Brownies:

• Caramel Bunny Peanut Butter Brownies from Big Bear's Wife

Cakes:

• Chai Apple Cake from The Spiffy Cookie
• Blueberry Almond Springtime Cake from The Food Hunter's Guide to Cuisine
• Mini Bundt Cakes from Me and My Pink Mixer
• Strawberry Upside Down Cake from Eat Move Make
• Lemon Poppy Seed Layer Cake from Love and Confections
• Maple Bourbon Carrot Cake Bars from The Whimsy One
• Easter Cake Pops from That Skinny Chick Can Bake

Candy:

• Cadbury Cream Egg Patties from Sweet ReciPEAs
• Jello Divinty from Love Bakes Good Cakes
• Bottoms Up Easter Candy Apples from For the Love of Food
• Lemon Truffles from The Domestic Kitchen
• Chocolate Sunbutter Eggs {Nut free!} from Comfortably Domestic

Cookies:

• Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cadbury Egg Cookies from 4 Sons 'R' Us
• Malted Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie from The Bitter Side of Sweet
• EASY Bunny Decorated Cookies from The Decorated Cookie
• Easter Monster Cookies from Cooking on the Front Burners
• Giant Sugar Cookie from Pint Sized Baker

Baked Desserts:

• French Apple Tart from The Java Cupcake Blog
• Lemon Jelly Doughnuts from Nik Snacks
• Hot Cross Buns from Mildly Meandering
• Fried Apple Hand Pies from Miss in the Kitchen
• Easter Brunch Apple Fritter Casserole from A Blender Mom
• Lemon Poppy Seed Bread from Life's Ambrosia
• Pink Lemonade Crumb Bars from My Sweet Zepol

No Bake Treats:

• No Bake Lemon Cheesecake Bars from Delightful E Made
• Waldorf Salad Apple Basket Cups from Southern From Scratch
• Coconut Key Lime Pie from A Classic Twist

Welcome to this year's #EasterSweetWeek event hosted by Angie from Big Bear’s Wife. We’re so glad that you’ve joined us for this week long event of Springtime and Easter dessert recipes! We're sharing tons of treats this week plus a few fantastic giveaways! You’re going to love what we have in store for you.

This year we have are 28 fantastic bloggers participating in this year’s Easter dessert event! Throughout the week we’ll be share tons of great Springtime and Easter themed dessert recipes with you. With over 75 sweet dessert recipes being shared this week we just know that you’re going to want to save some of these recipes to make again and again! We even hope that some of these recipes end up in your Easter recipe keepsake collection! Plus, don’t forget that we have 5 (five) great giveaways for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsors!

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PRIZE #1

Prize #1 — Dixie Crystals is giving away one (1) Instant Pot (8 Qt) to one lucky winner!

PRIZE #2

Prize #2 — Adam’s Extract is giving one (1) winner 5 different extracts including a bottle of Pure vanilla and a color pack.

PRIZE #3

Prize #3 — Rainier Fruit is giving one (1) winner a box of Apples and some wonderful Apple themed goodies from Sur La Table

PRIZE #4

Prize #4 — Anolon is giving one (1) winner a Anolon® Vesta™ 9-Inch Square Baker in Cobalt Blue

PRIZE #5

Prize #5 — Microplane is giving one (1) winner a Twist & Zest, grip & strip and a classic zester/grater

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Giveaway open to US Residents 18 years or older.. All entries will be verified. No PO Boxes Please. Prizes will be sent directly from sponsors to winners, bloggers are not responsible for prizes. This giveaway runs from Marh 26th - April 1st at 12AMEST. Winners will be selected soon afterwards and contacted by e-mail. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. There are a total of 5 (five) prizes and therefore we will have a total of 5 (five) winners. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law.

Disclaimer: These posts and recipes are part of the week long event, #EasterSweetsWeek but all opinions are 100% mine! We would like Thank our amazing sponsors: Dixie Crystals, Adam’s Extract, Rainier Fruit, Anolon and Microplane! These wonderful sponsors provided the prize packs for our giveaways and also sent samples and products to the #EasterSweetsWeek bloggers to use in their recipes.