Easy Baked Apples

Call me traditional, but I like to finish off every dinner with something sweet. It doesn’t have to be a full-on dessert – sometimes a square of dark chocolate will do the trick, or even a golden mylk latte. After seeing tables piled high with apples at the farmer’s market this weekend, I started craving good old Easy Baked Apples. We ate them a lot as children, smothered either is sweet vanilla custard or rich clotted cream. What I most love is that they are incredibly easy to prepare and most children love them. I’ve added some hemp seeds to health them up a bit, but leave out if you’re just cooking for kids, as they often don’t love the visual of seeds! When I make mine with seeds, my daughter meticulously picked each seed out.

EASY BAKED APPLES INGREDIENTS:

  • 4 cooking apples (if you can’t find “cooking apples,” use Granny Smith’s). Make sure your apples are organic.
  • 1/2 cup sliced or slivered almonds
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1/4cup of hemp seeds (optional)
  • 1/4 tsp ground cloves
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp  brown rice syrup
  • 1/2 stick of melted unsalted, plant-based butter (such as Earth Balance)

DIRECTIONS:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 355°F
  2. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Add the almonds, raisins, spices and brown rice syrup to the butter, stir well, set aside.
    Prepare the apples:remove the core. Using a sharp knife draw a line around the middle of each apple, although you were drawing a line around it’s waistline – This will stop it exploding and/or caving in. Stuff with the nut/spice mixture till it reaches the top of each apple.
    Cook for 45 -60 minutes (depending on the size of your cooking apples), until apples are very tender when poked with a knife.
    Serve immediately with plain yogurt (I use my homemade yogurt) or if you’re feeling indulgent, a little creme fraiche.

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