Baked Apples

Whole apples filled with walnuts, sugar and cinnamon and baked with butter until soft in their own syrup. A warm, gluten-free winter dessert.

Ingredients

• 800 g apples (4 medium)
• 60 g walnuts
• 80 g (6 tbsp) sugar
• 30 g (2 tbsp) butter
• 3 g (1 tsp) cinnamon
• 100 g (scant 1/2 cup) water

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Wash the apples and, leaving the skin on, core them without cutting through, leaving 1 cm at the bottom.

2. 2

   Roughly chop the walnuts, mix with 60 g of the sugar and the cinnamon and press the filling into the apples.

3. 3

   Set the apples in a small baking dish and top each with a quarter of the butter.

4. 4

   Dissolve the remaining sugar in the water and pour it into the bottom of the dish.

5. 5

   Bake for 40-45 minutes, basting once or twice with the syrup, until the apples are soft and the skins slightly wrinkled.

6. 6

   Let cool for 10 minutes and serve with the syrup spooned over.

Nutrition

Per serving