Baked apples are a delicious, low-calorie dessert that's easy to make at home. You can use the oven or microwave, add nuts, cottage cheese, chocolate or marzipan to apples. Experiment with fillings - you may be able to come up with a new original combination.
It is necessary
- Honey and ginger apples with vanilla sauce:
- - 4 apples;
- - 4 tbsp. spoons of honey;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of chopped ginger;
- - 0.5 glasses of white table wine;
- - 300 g cream;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- - 2 egg yolks;
- - 1 vanilla pod.
- Baked apples with cottage cheese and nuts:
- - 3 apples;
- - 300 g of cottage cheese;
- - 1 egg;
- - 1 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- - 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar;
- - 50 g dried cherries;
- - ground cinnamon;
- - sour cream.
- Spicy apples with marzipan:
- - 2 large apples;
- - 100 g of marzipan mass;
- - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of pitted raisins;
- - 1 star anise star;
- - 2 teaspoons of cinnamon;
- - 2 pcs. cardamom;
- - 50 g of dark chocolate;
- - 100 g of sugar;
- - 250 ml of port wine.
Instructions
Step 1
Honey and ginger apples with vanilla sauce
This dessert tastes best with homemade vanilla sauce, it gives the dessert a special tenderness. Start with the sauce. Pour the cream into a small saucepan and add the sliced vanilla pod. Place the saucepan on the stove and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Remove the cream from the heat and let it sit for 10-15 minutes. Take out the vanilla bean.
Step 2
Mash the eggs thoroughly with sugar, and then carefully add them to the cream, stirring constantly. Put the mixture on low heat and cook until thickened, continuing to stir. Remove the finished cream from heat and refrigerate.
Step 3
Wash the apples and remove the core without cutting the fruit completely. Peel and chop the ginger root, then mix with honey. Put a piece of butter on the bottom of the apples, place the honey-ginger mixture on top. Place the apples in a greased ovenproof dish and then pour over the wine.
Step 4
Bake the dish in an oven preheated to 160 ° C. Water the apples from time to time out of the mold. The finished fruit should be soft. Transfer to serving plates, top with vanilla sauce and serve warm.
Step 5
Baked apples with cottage cheese and nuts
This hearty sweet dish can be enjoyed for breakfast. From the specified number of products, you will get three servings of a treat. Wash the apples, cut in half, remove the core and tails. Mash cottage cheese with egg, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, then add dried pitted cherries to the mixture.
Step 6
Fill the apple halves with the curd mixture and place in a greased ovenproof dish. Bake the dessert in an oven preheated to 170 ° C. The process will take about half an hour, during which time the apples should become soft. Beat the sour cream with sugar with a mixer. Place the apples on serving bowls and sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Serve sour cream and biscuits separately.
Step 7
Spicy apples with marzipan
This dessert can be served with a Sunday autumn or winter lunch. Spicy apples with filling are distinguished by their bright and original taste. Wash and dry the apples. Make a wide hole in the middle of each while removing the core. Place the fruits in a greased pan.
Step 8
Prepare the filling. Mix the marzipan mass with chopped chocolate, raisins and cinnamon powder. Fill the apples with the resulting mass, tamping the filling well with a spoon. Place the fruits in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.
Step 9
Pour port wine into a saucepan, heat it, add granulated sugar, cardamom and star anise. Boil the sauce for about 10 minutes, then remove it from heat, leave for another 5 minutes, remove the spices. Place the apples on portioned plates, top with the sauce and serve.
