A baked apple is a wonderful dish that is now undeservedly forgotten by many.
It is very healthy and tasty.
And you can cook baked apples in the oven in a variety of ways: whole, slices, halves, with toppings and sauces.
Here you can find the most delicious recipes for this simple treat.
Oven baked apples - general cooking principles
For cooking, it is better not to use summer apples. Since they have a thin skin that can burst during cooking. The flesh of the summer fruit is friable and too soft, it is also not to everyone's taste.
Ideally, it is better to use autumn apples of sour or sweet and sour varieties, for example, antonovka. But in the winter, you can use any fruit that will be available. They are all suitable, because they are not very juicy and have a dense pulp.
What apples are cooked with:
• with dried fruits;
• with nuts;
• with cottage cheese;
• with cereals.
For sweetness, sugar or honey is added. For aroma put vanillin, cinnamon. Although the baked fruits themselves smell amazing, like most toppings.
Recipe 1: Honey Baked Apples in the Oven
The classic recipe for baked apples in the oven. For cooking, you will need natural honey, as well as sour apples.
Ingredients
• 5 apples;
• 5 teaspoons of honey;
• some vanillin;
• a piece of foil.
Cooking
1. Immediately you need to turn on the oven, set 180 degrees.
2. Rinse apples, dry with a towel. The peel is never removed.
3. We take a small knife with a sharp tip and cut a hole in a circle from the side of the stalk. The task is to cut the stub, but not to the end. That is, from the opposite side there should not be holes so that honey does not flow out.
4. Foil line a small mold or just cover two layers of foil.
5. Spread the prepared fruit.
6. In each hole, pour a small pinch of vanilla and put a spoonful of honey.
7. Wrap the free edges of the foil inward. You do not need to connect, just slightly cover.
8. Send apples to the oven and bake. Time depends on the variety, size and juiciness of the fruit and can range from 10 to 40 minutes.
Recipe 2: Baked Apples in the Oven with Cinnamon
To cook baked apples in the oven according to this recipe, it is better to cut the fruit. Thus, it will be easier to evenly distribute the cinnamon powder, and it will evenly soak the halves. You can bake according to this recipe with both honey and sugar.
Ingredients
• apples;
• cinnamon;
• honey or sugar.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apples and cut into 2 halves.
2. Cut out from each core, making small boats.
3. Sprinkle the cinnamon halves over the entire surface.
4. If sugar is used, then pour a little in the hole and sprinkle lightly on top of the entire area. It is not worth pouring a lot, sugar will melt and drain.
5. If honey is used, then just put half a spoon in the hole. On the surface, you do not need to smear anything.
6. We shift the blanks into the mold, send to the oven and bake until the fruit is soft.
Recipe 3: Baked apples in the oven with cottage cheese
To prepare rosy, tender and melting filling of baked apples in the oven, you need good cottage cheese, preferably not dry. This dish can be a great alternative to cheesecakes and casseroles, as it is much easier to prepare.
Ingredients
• 160 grams of cottage cheese;
• 5-6 apples;
• 1 yolk;
• 0.5 tablespoons of starch;
• 2 tablespoons of powder;
• some vanilla.
Cooking
1. Put the cottage cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with the yolk in a bowl, add the starch. We interrupt the mass with a blender or mixer. Dry and cereal curd can be rubbed through a sieve before preparing the filling. Also, if desired, you can add a little sour cream, so that the mass becomes more tender.
2. Rinse the apples and remove the “cap” from the side of the stalk.
3. We take a spoon and carefully select the middle with a stub, but the walls should remain quite thick, at least 0.7 centimeters. Get a kind of barrels.
4. Fill the prepared holes with curd.
5. Put the apples in a mold or simply on a foil and bake in the oven. At 190 degrees, it will take about half an hour. But we focus on our apples.
Recipe 4: Baked apples in the oven with nuts and raisins
The recipe for very fragrant apples with amazing filling. In addition to raisins and nuts, honey is added, making the dish even more healthy.
Ingredients
• 1 glass of raisins;
• 7 teaspoons of honey;
• 14 walnuts;
• cinnamon;
• 1-2 tablespoons of sugar;
• 30 ml of brandy.
Instead of brandy, you can use any liquor or wine.
Cooking
1. Rinse the raisins, place on a napkin and dry. Then pour into a bowl, add cognac and stir. Leave to stand for a while while preparing other ingredients.
2. Wash the apples, cut off the top and carefully select the middle. We try not to damage the wall, bottom and skin.
3. Cut the nuts with a knife and put 2 in each apple.
4. Then spread out the raisins evenly over all the fruits.
5. We lay out bee honey on top. You do not need to melt, even if it is very thick. The oven will become thinner and soak the entire filling.
6. Mix sugar with cinnamon and sprinkle apples on top.
7. We send in the form and put in the oven. Bake for half an hour until cooked.
Recipe 5: Baked Apples in the Oven with Ginger and Honey
The recipe for an amazing treat served with vanilla sauce. Such baked apples are worthy of even a festive table. It is better to use a variety of Golden or detailed to him.
Ingredients
• 4 large apples;
• 4 tablespoons of honey;
• 20 grams of oil;
• 30 grams of ginger;
• 4 tablespoons of white wine.
For the sauce:
• 250 ml cream;
• 1 vanilla pod;
• 2 yolks;
• 30 grams of sugar.
Cooking
1. Put on a plate of cream. Better in the stewpan. Warm up until the bubbles appear along with the vanilla pod, but do not let them boil. Remove from heat and let it brew for a quarter of an hour. We take out the pod.
2. Whisk the yolks with whisk with sugar and pour into cream. We put it on the stove again and warm up until slightly thickened. The sauce is ready, you just need to cool it. In the meantime, you can do apples.
3. Fruit, we remove the core with a special device, but do not push it to the end, the bottom should remain. If there is no special notch, then simply cut the hole with a sharp knife.
4. Peel and chop the ginger. You can just grate.
5. We combine the crushed ginger with honey, we rub well.
6. We spread the ginger filling over the apples, distribute evenly.
7. We shift the fruit into the mold and add a little wine to each and put a small piece of butter on top.
8. Bake until soft at 170 degrees.
9. We take out the apples, cool to a warm state and serve with cold creamy sauce.
Recipe 6: Baked Rice Apples in an Oven
Another variation of baked apples for which you need rice. The dish is very satisfying, but also high-calorie.
Ingredients
• 5 apples;
• 60 grams of rice;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 25 grams of oil;
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons sour cream;
• some vanilla.
Cooking
1. Boil rice in plain water with a pinch of salt until tender. Drain the broth.
2. Add butter and sugar to hot rice, stir.
3. We wash the raisins and send them to the rice filling with vanilla. All is well stirred.
4. We take out the washed pulp with a stub from the washed apples, having previously removed the top. The hole should be roomy, but the walls are not too thin to make.
5. Fill the fruit with rice filling.
6. Lubricate the filling with sour cream on top and send the fruit to bake until cooked.
Recipe 7: Baked Apples in the Caramel Oven
It turns out that you can bake apples in the oven not only in half or whole, but even in small pieces.
Ingredients
• 4 apples;
• 4 tablespoons of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• 50 grams of oil.
Cooking
1. Immediately set the oven to 220 degrees, turn it on.
2. The form in which we will bake, rub with a piece of butter.
3. Cut the apple into 4 parts and cut the core from each corner. Cut each another into 3 slices. We cut all the fruits.
4. Spread on a greased pan in one layer. If they do not fit, then we do an overlap.
5. Mix sugar with cinnamon, sprinkle on top.
6. Take the remaining butter and cut into small pieces the size of a pea and spread on top of the apples.
7. Put in the oven and fry until caramel color, do not lower the temperature.
Recipe 8: Baked Oatmeal Oven Apples
The recipe is very fragrant apples with interesting toppings. For cooking, you need instant oatmeal.
Ingredients
• 4 apples;
• 1 spoon of honey;
• ¼ cup oatmeal;
• 2 tablespoons crushed nuts;
• 10 pieces of dried apricots;
• a slice of ginger.
Cooking
1. We take any nuts. Combine with chopped dried apricots and a chopped piece of ginger. Add oatmeal, two tablespoons of water and honey. We put on the stove.
2. Cook the filling for a couple of minutes, stir constantly. We do not make big fire. Remove and cool a little.
3. Cut the insides of the apples, forming barrels.
4. Fill with the filling and put in the oven. Bake until the apples are ready at 180 degrees.
Baked apples in the oven - tips and tricks
• Apples will be more beautiful if they are sprinkled with brown sugar and not white, but sent to the oven.
• Apples can be baked with other dishes. But you need to seal them tightly in foil so that the flavors do not mix.
• To prevent the fruit filling from flowing out, the hole must not be completely filled. About 0.5 centimeters from the top is left.
• It is undesirable for whole apples to touch each other during baking. If there is a distance between them, then cooking will be more even.
