Baked apples are a delicious low-calorie dessert that is easy to make at home. You can use the oven or microwave, add nuts, cottage cheese, chocolate or marzipan to apples. Experiment with toppings - you may be able to come up with a new original combination.
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You will need
- Honey-ginger apples with vanilla sauce:
- - 4 apples;
- - 4 tbsp. tablespoons of honey;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped ginger;
- - 0.5 cups 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 of 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.
Instruction manual
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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 first. Pour the cream into a small saucepan, add the sliced vanilla pod. Place the pot on the stove and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Remove the cream from the heat and let it brew for 10-15 minutes. Take out the vanilla pod.
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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 thick, continuing to stir. Remove the finished cream from the heat and cool it.
3
Wash the apples and core, without cutting the fruit to the end. Peel the ginger root and chop finely, then mix it with honey. Put a piece of butter at the bottom of the apples, place the honey-ginger mixture on top. Put the apples in a heat-resistant form, oiled, and then fill them with wine.
4
Bake the dish in the oven, heated to 160 ° C. Water apples from the mold from time to time. Finished fruits should become soft. Transfer them to portioned dishes, pour over with vanilla sauce and serve warm.
5
Baked apples with cottage cheese and nuts.
This hearty sweet meal can be served for breakfast. From the specified number of products, three servings of goodies are obtained. Wash apples, cut in half, remove the core and ponytails. Mash the cottage cheese with egg, granulated sugar and vanilla sugar, then add dried seedless cherries to the mixture.
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Fill the halves of apples with cottage cheese mixture and put them in a heat-resistant form, oiled. Bake dessert in the oven, heated to 170 ° C. The process will take about half an hour, during which time the apples should become soft. Beat sour cream with sugar with a mixer. Put apples on serving plates and sprinkle with ground cinnamon. Separately serve sweet sour cream and dry cookies.
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Spicy Apples with Marzipan
This dessert can be served on a Sunday autumn or winter dinner. Spiced apples with filling have a bright and original taste. Wash apples, dry. In the middle of each, make a wide hole while removing the core. Put the fruits in a greased dish.
8
Prepare the filling. Mix marzipan with crushed chocolate, raisins and cinnamon powder. Fill the apples with the resulting mass, ramming the filling well with a spoon. Place the fruit in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C, for 20-25 minutes.
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Pour port wine into a stewpan, heat it, add granulated sugar, cardamom and star anise. Boil the sauce for about 10 minutes, then remove it from the heat, leave for another 5 minutes, remove the spices. Put apples on serving plates, pour them with sauce and serve.