how is it I've never seen or eaten a baked apple?

[NMDemDist2]

I was reading a thread in the Lounge where someone asked how to cook a steak and one response suggested baked apples for dessert. I have 4 apples in the fruit bowl I need to do something with so that pricked my curiosity so Google I go....

Dang!!!! they look easy to do with stuff I already have around the house and low calorie (since we're still losing weight and not quite ready to dive back into the butter and heavy cream circuit) how did I miss these for 50something years????

what I wonder is some recipes want you to add juice or water to the baking pan, some just say stuff em and bake em

Suggestions?

[Denninmi]

1. I've never found additional liquid necessary.

The apples make enough liquid of their own as they bake. But, you can add various juices for flavor -- I've seen recipes that use apple juice or cider, orange juice, or even lemon juice.

[NMDemDist2]

4. for flavor and maybe to replace some of the butter??

i think i'll try that....

[grasswire]

2. they make their own juice....

...unless they've been sitting in that bowl for many weeks.

I core them, poke a dab of butter in the hole, put the apple in a pan (a pie plate works just fine) and fill the hole to overflowing with cinnamon sugar. The butter-sugar-juices will make a nice thick mixture. Some people put cinnamon red-hot candies in the core hole.

[NMDemDist2]

5. well.. maybe a couple weeks

red hots huh? bet that would be tasty but more added sugar so i'll just stick with cinnamon

[pinto]

3. I like them stuffed with some butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and ginger. Same with pears plus raisins

:hi:

[NMDemDist2]

6. ginger?? now that's a thought

I'll report back after i try em this weekend.

:hi:

[Lucinda]

7. Any report back yet?

:)

[NMDemDist2]

9. ROFL no

i'll be doing it tonight or tomorrow I think

[Lucinda]

13. :)

[NMDemDist2]

17. OK we tried em last night

I cored them and put about a tsp of oleo and about a TBSP of brown sugar in, baked at 375 for about 20 minutes then stuffed the core with coarsely chopped raisin/cranberry mixed with pecans, cinnamon sugar and a bit more oleo mixed together and baked another 10 minutes

YUM!!!!!!! :9

[NMDemDist2]

18. forgot to mention, i did put a bit of water in the pan n/t

[Tesha]

8. Pecans, walnuts, or raisins

dab of butter and something sweet - honey's nice - and 3-4 minutes in the microwave...

let it cool just a bit and dab with ice cream of Greek yogurt

[NMDemDist2]

10. doesn't microwaving it give it a different texture than baking??

:dilemma:

[Tesha]

11. Sure...

different, but not worse.

The big bennie? You get instant gratification.
:9

[NMDemDist2]

12. well... there is that

and better in the summer for sure

:hi:

[Warpy]

14. I core 'em and peel 'em halfway down

and stuff the cores with raisins and chopped pecans. I drizzle them with maple syrup or sprinkle some brown sugar on top and in they go.

If you really want to gild the lily, throw some whipped cream on them, but it's really not necessary.

It's not only a cheap dessert, it's an easy dessert.

[NMDemDist2]

15. no butter or anything eh?

that's what I'm gonna try tonight...

[Warpy]

16. Some people use butter, but I don't need the calories

and find it just slides off and burns in the bottom of the pan.

Some people put water or apple juice into the pan to make the apples easier to get off when they're done, but I find they're not that much easier, water dilutes the flavor, and apple juice can burn. Use parchment or tinfoil, they work better.

[noamnety]

19. In summer we just toss them on the grill.

No coring, no stuffing, no nothing. Just an apple baked on the grill. It's delicious.