Totally delicious melding of flavors: the tartness of baked apples, cinnamon, raisins and toasted almonds.. topped with a sweet and creamy vanilla sauce.. It’s a classic Scandinavian dessert. Comfort food for winter is what I call it! 🙂
Baked apples
- 4 apples (Granny Smith work great) – cored
- 1/3 cup roughly chopped almonds
- 1/3 cup raisins or dried currants
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- water
Directions
- Core your apples carefully with a pairing knife
- Toss raisins, almonds and cinnamon
- Place apples upright in glass baking dish and fill each center with nut/raisin mixture
- Any leftover nut/raisin mixture can be tossed into the bottom of the baking dish
- Pour a little water into the baking dish
- Cover with foil and bake @350 for 45 minutes or until knife inserts easily into apple
Vanilla Sauce
- 2 cups milk
- 2 tsp vanilla or 1 vanilla pod
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 Tbsp agave syrup or other sweetener
- 1 Tbsp tapioca or other starch (whisked with some water)
Directions
- Put all ingredients (including vanilla pod if you are using that, but excluding vanilla essence) in a pot and bring to light boil while stirring to avoid clumps
- Remove from heat and add vanilla essence (if you are using that)
- Cool a bit and ladle on to baked apples
- Delicious hot or cold! 🙂
My mouth is watering!!!! I cannot wait to make these! I mean…my jeans can, but they look SO YUMMY!!!
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Reblogged this on Celiac Schmeliac and commented:
Baked apples are so incredibly good. A comfort food for cold snowy days.
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