Baked Apples Dessert Recipe

Stuffed Baked Apples - An Easy Quick Apple Dessert

Stuffed Baked Apples are healthy, and easy to make. It's autumn and apples are in abundance!  There are chilly fall days when I want an easy apple dessert that's warm and delicious but I don't have time for complicated recipes with pie crust and such.  One of the "weapons" in my dessert arsenal is Baked Apples and Stuffed Baked Apples  adds more to the deliciousness.  I have a number of baked apple recipes because it is a recipe that you can get creative with.  You make a little savory or you can make very, very sweet or you can make it very healthy.  It really depends on what you want for the meal you will be serving it with.  What I like about Stuffed Apples is they have a fairly quick prep time.  I can get the apples in the oven to bake while I prepare the rest of our meal and they are ready to serve at dessert time with little fuss.

Choosing The Right Apple for Baking

When you are going to bake an apple you need to choose from the best varieties for baking.  Some apples are "eating" apples.  They taste great fresh but their flesh doesn't keep its shape during the baking process and becomes a mushy, shapeless (but still very tasty) mess.  The best apples for baked apples are tart, firm apples such as  Granny Smith, Jonathans, Honey Crisp, Winesap, Braeburn, Pink Lady, Rome Beauty, and Mutsu (also referred to as Crispin). These varieties are the apples most often used for baking, making pies, cobblers, and crumbles. For more information on apple varieties go to the University of Maine Co-op Extension service.

Preparing Your Apple for stuffing

The apple must have the core and the seeds removed but leave enough flesh so the apple will hold its shape during the baking process. Dependent on my baked apple "presentation" its a choice to slice enough of the top off to make a little lid or to just cut the core out with the stem. Do not cut all the way through the base of the apple.  Leave enough of the very bottom to hold the stuffing in. Remove all the seeds with the core.

Preparing Stuffing for Your Baked Apples

The recipe below gives one choice for stuffing your Stuffed Baked Apples.  It's an easy recipe that stuffs the apples with raisins and walnuts but you can get creative and use other things to stuff your apples. It's very easy to make these gluten free. You can vary the fruits by switching dried cranberries or currants in place of the raisins or change the walnuts out for pecans. I have even seen one baked stuffed apple recipe that calls for chopped figs, blue cheese, walnuts, and honey. This sounds like a very interesting combination and I am going to try it as I love anything with blue cheese.  Another interesting sweetener to add to flavor possibilities is maple syrup. There are stuffed apple recipes that add in cereals like oatmeal to make it a tasty breakfast food.  You can serve the baked apple plain or add whipped cream or vanilla ice cream to make it more special.

For More Wilderness Wife Apple recipes try these:

Apple Crumble Pie

Apple Spinach Salad

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