I have never eaten baked apples in my entire life. So it may be quite a surprise that I am cooking this. Recipe is lifted from here.
Ingredients
Instructions
Preheat oven to 175 Celsius. Combine oats and pecans with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Spread out on a baking sheet in a thin layer and bake for 4-6 minutes until golden and toasted. Remove and set aside. Reduce oven temp to 160 Celsius.
Rinse and core the apples, but make sure not to cut through the bottom of the apple. You can use an apple corer or a paring knife. Make sure seeds are removed as well (scoop out with spoon). We don't have a corer so we just half the apples and cut the cores out with v shape cuts on each side of the apple.
In a bowl, combine oat-pecan mixture with brown sugar, yoghurt, melted butter and cinnamon. So if you have cored out the apples with a corer, great, you can proceed to spoon mixture into the cavity of each apple. If you have halved the apples like we did (without a corer), what we did to keep the apples in place is by making a squarish tray (almost same height as the apples) with aluminium foil. Fit the apples standing up snugly in the foil bowl so the halves don't fall down, you can adjust the foil to tighten it in places where its loose. Then we spoon the mixture into the cavity. Place apples in an 8 x 8 inch baking dish or if you have made the aluminium foil, place the foil in your regular baking tray. Pour apple juice in the bottom of dish. Bake at 160 Celsius for 30-40 minutes until tender (not mushy). Top with whipped cream or ice cream and serve.
Taste Test
The apples were not fully baked in certain parts but I think we can rotate them halfway during the bake when we do this the next time, otherwise its something different to eat for dessert if you love apples!
Ingredients
- 4 gala apples (or any small apples)
- ½ cup oats (we used rolled oats)
- 1/3 cup pecans (optional, also expensive so we decided to skip this)
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 ½ tbsp greek yoghurt
- 1tbsp butter, melted
- 1tsp cinnamon (powder)
- 3tbsp apple juice
- Whipped cream
Instructions
Preheat oven to 175 Celsius. Combine oats and pecans with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Spread out on a baking sheet in a thin layer and bake for 4-6 minutes until golden and toasted. Remove and set aside. Reduce oven temp to 160 Celsius.
Rinse and core the apples, but make sure not to cut through the bottom of the apple. You can use an apple corer or a paring knife. Make sure seeds are removed as well (scoop out with spoon). We don't have a corer so we just half the apples and cut the cores out with v shape cuts on each side of the apple.
In a bowl, combine oat-pecan mixture with brown sugar, yoghurt, melted butter and cinnamon. So if you have cored out the apples with a corer, great, you can proceed to spoon mixture into the cavity of each apple. If you have halved the apples like we did (without a corer), what we did to keep the apples in place is by making a squarish tray (almost same height as the apples) with aluminium foil. Fit the apples standing up snugly in the foil bowl so the halves don't fall down, you can adjust the foil to tighten it in places where its loose. Then we spoon the mixture into the cavity. Place apples in an 8 x 8 inch baking dish or if you have made the aluminium foil, place the foil in your regular baking tray. Pour apple juice in the bottom of dish. Bake at 160 Celsius for 30-40 minutes until tender (not mushy). Top with whipped cream or ice cream and serve.
Taste Test
The apples were not fully baked in certain parts but I think we can rotate them halfway during the bake when we do this the next time, otherwise its something different to eat for dessert if you love apples!