Spiced Baked Apples With Maple Caramel Sauce
- Total Time
- 1 hour 10 minutes
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Ingredients
- 4teaspoons unsalted butter, more for pan
- 4tart baking apples, like Winesap or Empire
- â…“cup plus 4 teaspoons maple syrup
- 4teaspoons brown sugar
- 4teaspoons chopped pecans
- 4teaspoons chopped golden raisins
- ¼cup dry white wine or water
- 3cardamom pods
- 2whole cloves
- 1¼-inch-thick slice fresh ginger root
- 12-inch piece cinnamon stick
Preparation
- Step 1
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Butter a small cake or baking pan. Use a vegetable peeler to peel a strip of skin from around stem of each apple. Use a melon baller or grapefruit spoon to scoop out core of each apple, leaving at least ¼ inch at base. Stand apples in pan and use a paring knife to make 6 vertical cuts surrounding cavity, being sure not to pierce through bottom of apple.
- Step 2
Place 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon maple syrup into cavity of each apple. Mix together brown sugar, pecans and raisins, and stuff ¼ of this mixture into each apple. Pour remaining maple syrup and the wine into bottom of pan, and add cardamom, cloves, ginger and cinnamon.
- Step 3
Bake apples, basting with liquid in pan every 5 to 7 minutes, until tender yet not collapsed, 45 minutes to an hour. Serve warm or at room temperature, with custard if desired.
- Apples can be made without the filling of brown sugar, pecans and raisins.
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No sugar
I've made this many times over the years, and skip the brown sugar, pecans, and raisins because I like the simplicity of the apples with the delicious spiced sauce. The original recipe published in 2003 included brandied custard which makes this a holiday favorite of our family: https://approvedpromo.info/recipes/1754-brandied-custard%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3Cdiv class="noteactions_noteActions__VlyP0">
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