How to make baked autumn fruits with granola

Here is former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt's easy-to-make recipe perfect for the whole family.

She said: "This is my favourite dessert for family mealtimes – it’s so quick and easy yet full of good stuff. My one-year-old daughter Willow loves fruit, so I have included a variation in here for her too."

How to make Baked Autumn Fruits with Granola (serves 2)

Ingredients

3 plums, de-stoned and cut into 2cm pieces

2 pears, cored and cut into 2cm pieces

130g blackberries

130g blueberries

½ tsp ground cinnamon

1 orange

100g mascarpone

30g agave syrup

Granola ingredients

50g fresh apple juice

150g rolled oats

50g hazelnuts

20g sunflower seeds

50g pecans

20g sesame seeds

60g pumpkin seeds

50g golden raisins

50g raisins

70g chopped dried apricots

Method

​Pre heat your oven to 180°c.

Cut a piece of baking parchment to the size of 35cm x 35cm and lay on top of a baking sheet.

Put all of the prepped fruit in to a bowl and add the ground cinnamon and the zest of ½ the orange. Scoop the fruit on to the baking parchment, keeping at least a 5cm border all the way around – it’s fine to pile the fruit on top of each other.

Pull the corners of the baking parchment together to create a package (I secure this with a couple of wooden clothes pegs to make sure). Slide the fruit package into the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until the fruit is soft (15 for ripe fruit, and 20 mins for less ripe).

Mix the oats with the apple juice and mix with all the ingredients apart from the dried fruit. Toast in the oven until the oats have dried and the seed and nuts have a little colour (about 10 minutes). Remove from the oven, mix with the fruit and allow to cool.

Whilst the fruit and granola are cooking, spoon the mascarpone in to a bowl and add the juice of ½ the orange along with the agave syrup and mix until well combined, leave to one side.

Remove the fruit from the oven and carefully (watch out for the escaping steam and hot clothes pegs) unwrap the package. Blitz half of the fruit to a rough puree and spoon into an ice cube tray ready for freezing* (this is for the little ones).

Divide the remaining baked fruit between two bowls, dollop on some zest of the orange fromage frais, give the dish one final grating of orange zest.

Sprinkle a couple of spoons of granola over the whole dessert for a delightful crunch. Any remaining granola can be kept in an airtight jar or Tupperware container.

*Freezing instructions: leave the fruit to cool to room temperature before putting in the freezer to freeze. When fully frozen, you can pop the cubes from the try and pile them up in sandwich bags to free up the tray. Then simply defrost for a perfect dessert for kids!

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