Portuguese-Style Apples with Custard
Baked apples filled with custard — a great dessert for a celebration. Of all the custards out there, pastry cream is my favorite. I recently came across a fun idea for apples baked with custard in the oven. The dessert is inspired by the Portuguese custard tarts known as pastéis de nata — puff pastry filled with cream. The apples soak up the fragrant custard, and the custard takes on the flavor of the apples. Serve it warm or cold — it's equally delicious either way.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Measure out the ingredients.
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Step 2:
Wash the apples, cut off the tops, and carefully scoop out the flesh, taking care not to pierce the walls or bottom.
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Step 3:
Put the apples in an oven preheated to 355°F (180°C) for 15 minutes. Let them cool.
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Step 4:
The custard. Sift the flour into the warmed milk and stir until smooth.
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Step 5:
If lumps form, strain it.
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Step 6:
Cook a syrup from the water and sugar.
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Step 7:
As soon as it boils, take it off the heat.
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Step 8:
Pour the milk into the sugar syrup.
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Step 9:
Add the vanilla sugar and egg yolks.
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Step 10:
Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.
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Step 11:
Pour the custard into the apples and bake in an oven preheated to 390°F (200°C) for 20 minutes.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Apples - 47 kcal/100g
- Dried apples - 210 kcal/100g
- Canned apple mousse - 61 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364 kcal/100g
- Flour krupchatka - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Egg yolks - 352 kcal/100g
- Vanilla sugar - 379 kcal/100g
