The baked filled apple is a scrumptious, conventional, and easy-to-make iciness and vacation deal with. I bake those apples at the oven shelf proper underneath the baking ham.
Make a selection anybody or two of those nice baking apples for this tasty dessert: Honeycrisp is good, Braeburn is sweet-spicy, Jonagold and Rome Attractiveness are sweet-tart, and Granny Smith is tart and tangy.
As for stuffing the apples, there are such a large amount of tasty fits: almonds, raisins, walnuts, pecans, dates, and cranberries—you’ll be able to just about mix’n’match any of those for the flavors you maximum love.
Baked Fruit and Nut Filled Apples
Yield 4-6 filled apples
Substances
- 6 medium or 4 massive cooking apples
- ½ cup gentle brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- Grated zest and juice of ½ orange
- ¼ teaspoon floor cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons overwhelmed almond-paste cookies or different dessert cookies
- ½ cup walnuts or pecans or almonds—or a combination, chopped
- ½ cup raisins or dates or cranberries—or a combination, or blended glacé fruit, chopped
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Wash and dry the apples. Take away the apple cores with corer then amplify every core hollow space to two times its measurement by way of the use of the corer to shave away extra flesh. Rating every apple across the equator the use of a pointy knife. Stand the apples in a casserole or baking dish.
- Combine neatly the brown sugar, butter, orange zest and juice, cinnamon and cookie crumbs then stir within the chopped nuts and fruit. Divide and fill the apples to overflowing with the nut and fruit stuffing. Position a pat of butter and small piece of foil over the filling in every apple. Bake for 45-60 mins, till every apple is fork smooth.
Notes
You’ll be able to serve filled apples heat or chilly.
Tasty Filled Apple Advert-Ons:
- Convey 1 cup of apple cider to a boil and pour across the apples simply ahead of baking.
- To glaze the apples, do that syrup: warmth in combination ⅓ cup sugar, ½ cup water, a touch of salt, and a couple of strips of lemon peel; boil down the syrup slightly thick, let it cool, then spoon over the apples to glaze them. Spoon the syrup over the apples from time to time as they bake.
- Serve dribbled with caramel or maple syrup.
- Serve with cream, crème fraîche, chilled custard sauce, or vanilla ice cream (my favourite).
- If you need them wine-flavored, pour 2 tablespoons port or sherry or Armagnac into every apple in its personal serving dish.
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