I don’t think you can really call this a recipe as such, its not complicated, there are no rules or real measurements required, Luca and I just added loads and loads of muscovado sugar and butter and baked, the result was scrumptious baked apples with a yummy caramel sauce.
When I was a child, baked apples were one of my favourite desserts, we always had apple trees and until we moved into our current house I had never thought to bake them for the Children, well Luca, as the others are fussy and don’t like cooked fruit, but now, with 12 trees covered in apples of different varieties I thought I had better get cooking and not let them go to waste, plus Luca loves going down to the bottom of the garden to collect the biggest ones that he can find and is now as much in love with this dessert as I am.
What I love about this recipe is, if you have had the oven on to cook dinner you can just pop these in and in 30 minutes you have a simple but delicious dessert. You can keep it simple with just butter and sugar or you can jazz things up a bit with mincemeat, nuts, maple syrup, golden syrup or even some alcohol like Calvados, you can just use what you like and what you have to hand.
I love them and now the tradition continues with Luca, his comment being “Mummy this is one of the yummiest desserts I have ever had”!
Buon appetito
6 eating apples
handful of sultanas
2 tbsp light muscovado sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
matchbox-size piece of butter
2 tsp demerara sugar
Turn the oven on to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6.
Sit each apple on the worktop and push the apple corer into the centre of each one.
Mix the sultanas, muscovado sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
Stand up the apples, side by side, in a baking dish. Using your fingers, push a little bit of the sultana mixture into each apple, using up all the mixture between them.
Add a blob of butter to the top of each and sprinkle over the demerara sugar.
Put the dish in the oven for 20 mins or until the apples are cooked through.
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