Description
A delicious dessert that hails from the French country side, these stuffed baked apples are sweet, tender and stuffed with nutritious ingredients. They are scrumptious!
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 tablespoons sliced almond
- 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
- 12 pitted prunes
- 4 Honeycrisp apples, Jonagold, or Golden Delicious
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 1/8 teaspoon allspice powder
- 2 tablespoons raw organic honey
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- Powdered sugar (optional)
Instructions
- Warm up the oven: Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Cook the nuts: Put almonds and walnuts in a skillet and toast them over low heat, until they are slightly brown. Turn the heat off and transfer them to a bowl.
- Season the nuts and prunes: Add the prunes, ground cinnamon, allspice, honey and lemon juice to the bowl and mix well.
- Prep the apples: Slice off the top of each apple, just below the stems (leave the stems on) and set aside. Remove the core of each apple with a wide corer or a paring knife.
- Stuff them: Stuff each apple with the prune mixture and put the apple tops back on.
- Bake them: Place the apples in a cake pan and cover with aluminum foil. Bake for 25 minutes and remove the foil. Bake for an additional 10-20 minutes, until golden brown and soft.
- Serve: Turn the heat off and place the apples on a serving plate. Stick a cinnamon stick inside the apples and sprinkle the top with powedered sugar and serve.
Notes
These stuffed baked apples will keep refrigerated for up to 1 day.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 apple
- Calories: 247
- Sugar: 38.7g
- Sodium: 3.3mg
- Fat: 5.1g
- Saturated Fat: 0.5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2.4g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 54g
- Fiber: 7.5g
- Protein: 2.7g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
