Baked apples are a delicious lunch dessert. You can cook this dish with any filling: with cottage cheese, honey, nuts, yogurt, chocolate, or you can just bake fruit with sugar and cinnamon. In any case, the dish will turn out to be tasty and aromatic, especially if you correctly choose the temperature and baking time of the dish.
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Baked apples are a low-calorie dessert, which is why this dish is very popular among people who control their weight. If the fruit is baked with sweet fillings, for example, cottage cheese and sugar, honey, nuts and other things, then they will be at times not only caloric, but also tastier. As for the cooking time of apples in the oven, as well as the temperature regime, there is no single answer. Much depends on the variety of apples, their size, filling. However, it is worth noting that apples of medium hardness and size without filling are completely baked in 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. Experienced housewives are guided not only by the time they cooked the apples, but also by their condition: a cracked peel indicates that the delicacy is ready (if the apples were not previously pierced with a fork, then almost every apple will crack when baked).
Keep in mind the fact that apples of different sizes are best baked at different temperatures. For example, small fruits, the diameter of which does not exceed seven centimeters, are best baked at 220 degrees for about 20 minutes, medium, with a diameter of seven to ten centimeters, at 200 degrees 25 minutes, and large, more than 10 centimeters, at 170- 180 degrees half an hour. Subject to these rules, the apples will be baked properly, while their peel will not burn.
How long does it take to bake apples in the oven in foil
The apples baked in foil are more delicate in taste, the peel of the fruit is almost not felt. As for cooking time, it also depends on the size of the apples. If, with simple baking of apples on a baking sheet, the average cooking time for medium-sized fruits is about 30 minutes, then when baking the same fruits in foil, it is 5-10 minutes less. Only you should competently approach the preparation of dessert:
- Wash apples and wipe with a dry towel;
- Carefully remove the core of apples by cutting it from the side of the stem (the lower part of the apples must be left intact);
- Fill apples with cottage cheese, nuts, honey or other;
- With a fork (or any other sharp object), pierce the apples in several places (required so that the fruits do not crack too much when baked);
- Wrap each apple in foil and place on a baking sheet;
- Place the fruit pan in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees;
- After 25 minutes, turn off the oven and leave the apples for 10 minutes in the oven;
- Put the finished dish on a plate, if desired, decorate it with icing sugar or cream.