Oven-baked apples are a great lunch dessert. You can cook this dish with any filling: with cottage cheese, honey, nuts, yogurt, chocolate, or you can simply bake fruit with sugar and cinnamon. In any case, the dish will turn out to be tasty and aromatic, especially if you choose the temperature and baking time correctly.
Baked apples are a low-calorie dessert, which is why this dish is very popular among people who control their weight. If fruits are baked with sweet fillings, for example, cottage cheese and sugar, honey, nuts and others, then they will be many times more nutritious, but also tastier. As for the cooking time of apples in the oven, as well as the temperature regime, there is no single answer. Much depends on the variety of apples, their size, filling. However, it should be noted that apples of medium hardness and size without filling are completely baked in 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. Experienced housewives are guided not only by the time of cooking apples, but also by their condition: a cracked peel indicates that the delicacy is ready (if the apples were not previously pierced with a fork, then almost every apple will crack when baked).
Consider the fact that apples of different sizes are best baked at different temperatures. For example, small fruits, the diameter of which does not exceed seven centimeters, are best baked at 220 degrees for about 20 minutes, medium ones, with a diameter of seven to ten centimeters, at 200 degrees for 25 minutes, and large ones, more than 10 centimeters, at 170- 180 degrees for half an hour. If you follow these rules, the apples will be properly baked, while their skin will not burn.
How long does it take to bake apples in the oven in foil
Apples baked in foil turn out to be more delicate in taste, the peel of the fruit is practically not felt. As for the cooking time, it also depends on the size of the apples. If with simple baking of apples on a baking sheet, the average cooking time for medium-sized fruits is about 30 minutes, then when baking the same fruits in foil - 5-10 minutes less. You just need to competently approach the preparation of dessert:
- Wash the apples and wipe them off with a dry towel;
- Carefully remove the core of the apples by cutting it out from the side of the stalk (the bottom of the apples should be left intact);
- Fill apples with cottage cheese, nuts, honey, or the like;
- With a fork (or any other sharp object) pierce the apples in several places (required so that when baking the fruits do not crack too much);
- Wrap each apple in foil and place on a baking sheet;
- Place the baking sheet with fruit in an oven preheated to 200 degrees;
- After 25 minutes, turn off the oven and leave the apples for 10 minutes in the oven;
- Put the finished dish on a plate, decorate it with powdered sugar or cream if desired.
