Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Prepare the products. I took cane sugar, he added a caramel note.
Step 2:
I wash the blocks. Using a knife, gently remove the middle of the apples along with the seeds in a circular motion.
Step 3:
Using a vegetable peeler or a vegetable knife, remove two coils of peel in a spiral.
Step 4:
Mix sugar and cinnamon on a plate. Roll the apples with the cut part in the sugar-cinnamon mixture.
Step 5:
Take a baking dish, lay it out with foil. Put the apples in the mold. Pour a teaspoon of honey into each apple.
Step 6:
Bake the apples in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on the variety of apples. Make sure that the apple does not burst, otherwise honey will leak out. Serve the finished apples in a warm or cooled form. When serving, you can sprinkle them with powdered sugar if the apples were sour varieties. Bon appetit!
The apples turned out to be very appetizing, firm, but at the same time completely baked, with a bright honey aroma and a hint of cinnamon.
In general, everything depends on the kind of apples that you bake. It is preferable to choose sour varieties with hard pulp - Granny Smith, Antonovka, Semirenko, ranet.
Sweet varieties are best baked without sugar and honey.
If the apples are very large, then they can be cut into halves, remove the core and bake cut.
As a filling for baked apples, you can come up with a huge number of variations.
It can be any dried fruits - raisins, chopped dried apricots, prunes, dates. Nuts - walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts, almonds. You can stuff apples with a mixture of nuts, dried fruits and honey. It will be delicious to add pieces of chocolate.
They also make apples baked with cottage cheese filling, and even, you won't believe it, with minced meat. But this dish is rather for lovers.
To further complicate the dish and make it a full-fledged dessert, apples are wrapped in bags of puff pastry or shortbread, and baked in it.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Ground cinnamon - 247 kcal/100g