Categories: Desserts

Stuffed Baked Apples

I love plain baked apples. Stuffing apples with mix of dried apricots, raisins, apple pieces, seasoned with sugar and lemon juice and then baking them is a step up to plain baked apples.

Depending on apples, baking time will differ, you want to get apples soft but not too soft to lose their form.

Serve stuffed baked apples warm from the oven, reheated in microwave or cooled down as a dessert or snack. They also work nicely as a breakfast.

Ingredients:

  • 4 apples
  • 1/4 cup of cleaned walnuts
  • 1/4 cup of raisins
  • About 1/3 cup of dried apricots
  • Juice of one lemon
  • Cinnamon to taste (1/2 to 1 teaspoon)
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • Honey (optional)

How to prepare, step-by-step:

  1. Prepare ingredients: if apricots or raisins are very dry, you can soak them in hot water for few minutes and drain water before proceeding:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 1
  2. Slice dried apricots into smaller pieces, move them to a mixing bowl:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 2
  3. Add raisins:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 3
  4. Add chopped walnuts:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 4
  5. Add sugar:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 5
  6. Season with cinnamon to taste:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 6
  7. Slice top part of an apple:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 7
  8. Then carefully remove apple core to form an “apple bowl”:
    Incise apple around the edge (not all the way through)
    Using a spoon carefully loose the apple core up
    Then remove the core

  9. Sprinkle apple inside with lemon juice and prepare bowls from remaining apples:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 9
  10. Chop a bit of apple from 2 cores (discard cores, you will also not need the other 2) and add apple pieces to the stuffing:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 10
  11. Mix everything in the bowl:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 11
  12. Warm up oven to 355F. Fill all “apple bowls” with prepared stuffing, arrange apple bowls in the oven proof pan:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 12
  13. Add a bit of lemon juice into every bowl:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 13
  14. Cover apples with apple tops:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 14
  15. Pierce each apple in few places with a toothpick, then and add 1/3 of inch of water to the pan (if you use spring form like I did, you may want to secure bottom of the pan with foil) and put apples to the oven for 40min to an hour:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 15
  16. Serve stuffed baked apples warm as a dessert, add a teaspoon of honey to the apple bowl before serving if you want to add a little twist to the taste:
    Stuffed Baked Apples Recipe: Step 16
Enjoy!