Pear Apple Cranberry Crunch Cake

Ingredients

• 1 (31 ounce) jar pear slices in light syrup (or thereabouts in size)
• 1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
• 1 cup dried cranberries (Craisins)
• 1 box yellow cake mix
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup toasted pecans
• 1/4 house cinnamon sugar mixture (mine is approximately 4 heaping tablespoons sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Butter a 9x13-inch baking dish (or use Crisco).
3. Drain Pears, reserving 1/2 cup syrup.  Quarter the pear halves.
4. Spread pears and apple pie filling in the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
5. Drizzle with reserved pear syrup.
6. Sprinkle with cranberries.
7. Sprinkle cake mix evenly over fruit.
8. Drizzle top with butter, covering cake mix as much as possible.
9. Sprinkle top with toasted pecans.
10. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture lightly over pecans.
11. Bake 40 t0 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

​Serve warm with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.  Enjoy.