Large amounts of crude fiber and acid found in fresh apples can cause delicate digestive problems. Proper heat treatment makes the fruit safe for absorption, preserving most of the beneficial properties and taste. A universal recipe for baked apples in the oven is used to prepare first foods for babies, when preparing a diet for pregnant women or when losing weight, for festive homemade desserts and even for restaurant delicacies.

Baked apples in the oven with sugar

For baking, it is more convenient to use fruits with a thick skin. These are varieties such as Granny Smith, Antonovka, or Ranet.

If the apple is not sweet enough by itself, you can cook it with a sweetener. Baked apples with sugar should not crack and release juice, so the amount of sweet sand used is very limited. Usually, in order not to cause plentiful streaks of burnt caramel, a teaspoon per fruit is enough. Alternatively, you can separately cook caramel and pour it over the finished dessert. In this case, the fruit will retain juice as much as possible, and the dishes will remain clean.

  1. Wash the apples thoroughly, cut off the top of them. The result is a “lid” with a thickness of about 1.5 cm.
  2. Cut the core, keeping the whole bottom. Ideal to cope with this task will help tools for culinary carving. You can remove the core with a simple vegetable knife or a pointed spoon.
  3. Each apple on a slice should be sprinkled with lemon juice. So the fruits do not darken during the preparation process.
  4. Pour sugar into the recess and, if desired, close with a cut lid.
  5. Pour into the mold, depending on its width, 50 - 100 ml of hot water and distribute the fruit blanks in it. Apples should be placed freely, not touching each other.
  6. Put them in an oven preheated to 170 ° C and bake for 25-30 minutes. Serve cooled.

For caramel syrup you will need:

  • 100 g of sugar;
  • 100 g of water;
  • 50 g of lemon juice.

To work, you need dishes with a thick bottom so that sugar does not burn in it.

  1. Boil water in a separate container.
  2. Pour sugar with a portion of water and lemon juice, heat until completely dissolved on low heat.
  3. The caramel must be continuously mixed to obtain a uniform consistency.
  4. The remaining water is added in small portions to the caramel until a thick, viscous syrup is obtained.

Use it warm.

Sweet treat with honey

You can sweeten apples not only with sugar. Natural flower honey will give the dessert a special aroma. Fresh ginger will add an extra warm touch. Baked apples with honey will be not only tastier, but also healthier.

For dessert you will need:

  • sour and hard apples;
  • fresh ginger;
  • liquid honey.

During the preparation of the dessert, thick honey does not have time to melt and, especially, soak the apple, so it is important that it is liquid. Thickened honey can be slightly warmed up in a water bath.

  1. Rinse fruit, remove core.
  2. Put a piece of ginger in each apple.
  3. Pour a teaspoon of honey.
  4. Cover with a chopped top to keep the aroma better.
  5. Lubricate the mold and place in the oven preheated to 170 ° C for half an hour.
  6. When serving, you can additionally pour apples with honey.

Cooking with Cinnamon

The traditional duo of aromas - apple and cinnamon - can be diluted with a hint of anise.

For fragrant goodies will be used:

  • apples
  • sugar;
  • butter;
  • ground cinnamon;
  • whole cinnamon stick;
  • anise star

In this recipe, do not replace the anise with a similar taste of star anise, as the latter does not tolerate heat treatment.

  1. Sprinkle the prepared apples with lemon juice.
  2. Fill with sugar to taste.
  3. Put in each no more than half a teaspoon of cinnamon. In large quantities, this spice can cause a headache.
  4. Add a small piece of butter to the apples.
  5. Cover blanks with cut lids and put into shape.
  6. Pour some water into the bottom of the mold.
  7. Put a stick of cinnamon and anise in the water to enhance the flavor of the dessert.
  8. Bake cinnamon apples for 30 minutes at 170ºС.

Oven baked apples with nuts

You can complicate the recipe by adding tasty filling to baked apples.

Four large apples will require:

  • 30 g of walnuts or almonds;
  • 30 g of raisins;
  • 4 teaspoons of liquid honey.

If desired, you can add ground cinnamon or vanilla.

  1. Grind the nuts with a knife. Steam raisins with hot water and dry.
  2. Mix all the ingredients.
  3. Fill the apples peeled from the core and cover them with cut “lids”.
  4. Grease the mold with vegetable oil.
  5. Bake dessert at 180ºС for at least half an hour.

Baked apples with cottage cheese

The filling makes the dessert quite satisfying, because you can cook baked apples with cottage cheese for a children's snack or as a light dinner. If you do not add honey or sugar, you get an excellent dietary dish.

For 4 apples you will need:

  • 150 g of cottage cheese;
  • 30 g of raisins;
  • 4 teaspoons of honey;
  • cinnamon or vanilla to taste.

In the filling, you can use any dried fruit instead of raisins. In the case of a big hurry, it is permissible to fill the apples with the finished curd mass or baby sweet curd.

  1. Grind the cottage cheese so that there are no lumps left in it. If the mass is dry and crumbly, you can add a couple of tablespoons of softened butter. It is better to refuse sour cream - it will make the filling watery.
  2. Mix all the ingredients for the filling and fill it with prepared apples.
  3. Cover them with cut “lids” and distribute portions in a baking dish
  4. Pour some water into the bottom of the mold.
  5. Bake at 180ºС for about half an hour.

Rice and Raisin Filling

Another variant of a hearty filling is rice and raisins or other dried fruits to taste.

For 5 medium apples it will be necessary to take:

  • 100 g of rice;
  • 200 ml of milk;
  • 40 g butter;
  • 50 g of sugar;
  • egg;
  • 40 g of nuts;
  • 40 g of raisins;
  • vanilla to taste.

For this recipe, it is important to use apples of the same variety and about the same size so that they bake in the same time.

  1. Boil rice in milk with sugar. The porridge should be thick and sticky. You can replace the rice with millet. This recipe is a great way to creatively use the remnants of yesterday's cereal.
  2. Fill the cereal with oil and cool.
  3. Steamed raisins. Chop nuts
  4. Stir all the ingredients for the filling. If the porridge is sticky enough, then you can refuse an egg.
  5. Prepare apples, stuff them and put on a baking sheet.
  6. Pour 100 ml of water into it and bake dessert at 180 ° C for about half an hour.
  7. When serving, pour flavorful portions with berry syrup to taste.

In puff pastry

Apples in the dough can be baked whole or slices.

The first recipe will require a little time and artistic taste, but a decent design will allow you to serve such a dish to the festive table.

For 8 apples, prepare in advance:

  • 4 sheets of finished puff pastry;
  • 300 g of cottage cheese;
  • 100 g of sugar;
  • cinnamon or vanilla to taste.

Apples do not have to be filled, but without filling they will quickly lose their shape.

You can use any filling: cottage cheese, cottage cheese and dried fruits, nuts and dried fruits, and more.

  1. Peel the apples and peel.
  2. Grind cottage cheese with sugar and fill them with apples.
  3. Roll very juicy fruits in starch so that the dough is not damp.
  4. Defrost and roll the finished puff pastry. Cut it into strips 1 cm thick.
  5. Wrap these strips on each apple so that there are no gaps.
  6. The top of the apples can be decorated with leaves cut out of dough, and on the surface to push the veins with a knife, for greater realism. Under the leaves you need to put crossed toothpicks, then the leaves are baked in relief.
  7. Lubricate the surface with a beaten egg so that the fruit turns rosy.
  8. Grease a mold with butter and place apples on it at a small distance from each other.
  9. Bake a quarter of an hour at 200ºС and the same at 180ºС.

If you need an effective dessert whipped up, you can make “roses” from chopped apples in puff pastry.

For 250 g of dough, you will also need:

  • two large sour apples;
  • 50 g of sugar;
  • 50 - 80 g of butter.

For beautiful "roses" that look like a real flower, it is better to choose fruits with bright red skin.

  1. Cut apples into thin slices.
  2. So that they do not break when folding, they need to be softened. You can warm the apple blanks for 1.5 minutes in the microwave or boil in sugar syrup for 1-3 minutes.
  3. Roll out the dough and cut into strips of 2 cm wide.
  4. Grease them with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
  5. Put the apple slices on the strips with the skin up so that they protrude above the dough. If the slices are very thin they can be overlapped.
  6. Each strip is folded into a tight roll, pinch it below and place this side on a greased baking sheet.
  7. Bake at 180ºС for about 20 minutes.
  8. Cool the dessert and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

In the season of apples there is no better treat! Tasty, fast and, most importantly, useful.

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