Baked Apples Recipe
Baked apples are a delicious yet easy to prepare dessert perfect for family meals or for entertaining as it can be brought directly to the table for serving in a shallow casserole.
10 Mins
60 Mins
Medium
Image: Le Creuset
Ingredients
- 8 medium-sized dessert apples – see Recipe notes below
- 30g butter
- 60g brown sugar
- 2 good pinches ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch fennel seeds
- 1 pinch caraway seeds
- 1 vanilla pod
- 1 pinch sea salt flakes e.g. Maldon
- 1 sheet aluminium foil
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C / Gas Mark 3.
- Wash and dry the apples and place in the casserole without peeling, stalks facing upwards.
- Cut the butter into small cubes and distribute evenly over the apples.
- Sprinkle the brown sugar, followed by the cinnamon, fennel and caraway seeds.
- Cut the vanilla pod in half lengthways. Open it out and scrape the inside using the blade of a knife to extract the seeds. Distribute the seeds over the apples and place the open pod on top.
- Sprinkle with the sea salt flakes.
- Cover with aluminium foil and cook in the pre-heated oven for approximately 1 hour until the apples are tender. Serve warm.
