Brown Sugar Maple Baked Apples
"This is a delicious, good old-fashioned southern style baked apple and it makes a wonderful sauce! I have used both, Golden Delicious and Rome Beauties with excellent results. I have also added raisins soaked in rum or Grand Marnier right into the core cavity. I like it with a good vanilla ice cream, but whipped cream is just as yummy. Can easily halve this recipe if needed. This is adapted from Bon Appetit magazine, Oct. 2001."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 8 large golden delicious apples
- 1⁄2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 6 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup water
- vanilla ice cream (optional) or chilled whipped cream (optional)
directions
- Peel skin off top quarter of each apple. Using melon baller, scoop out core, leaving bottom intact.
- Stand apples in 13x9x2-inch baking pan. Mix sugar and spices in bowl. Reserve 2 tablespoons mixture.
- Fill apple cavities with remaining sugar mixture. Spoon 1/2 tablespoon maple syrup into each cavity.
- Scatter 3 tablespoons butter pieces over apples. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover; chill.)
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Pour water into pan with apples, then add reserved 2 T. sugar mixture, 2 T. maple syrup, and 1 T. butter.
- Bake until apples are tender when pierced with skewer, about 1 hour. Transfer apples to 8 bowls.
- Place baking pan atop 2 burners; boil over medium-high heat until syrupy, about 2 minutes.
- Spoon sauce over apples. Serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream, if desired.
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Reviews
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This should be 10 stars!!! I served these apples warm over vanilla ice cream. It just doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for sharing it, Scoutie!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Scoutie
Roseville, California
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