Classic Baked Apples

Sonja Overhiser

This baked apples recipe is an easy, cozy fall dessert! Stuff the fruit with oats, spices, and brown sugar and bake until tender.

Ingredients 12

6 medium crisp-tart cooking apples (like Pink Lady, Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathon or Jonagold, Ida Red, etc*)
½ cup Old Fashioned rolled oats
2 tablespoons all purpose flour
¼ cup chopped pecans
½ cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon allspice
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
4 tablespoons butter, melted
Maple syrup, for serving
Vanilla ice cream, for serving

01
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Bring water to boil in a tea kettle.
02
Remove the core of each apple with a paring knife: cut a funnel shape from top of the apple to about 2/3 of the way down. Remove and discard the seeds and core.
03
In a medium bowl, stir together the rolled oats, flour, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, kosher salt , and melted butter. Spoon the filling into the apples.
04
Place the apples in a small baking dish. Cover the bottom of the dish with about 1/4” of the boiling water.
05
Bake for 25 minutes, then cover loosely with foil. Bake 15 to 20 minutes until tender when pierced with a knife, but not mushy (or more, if necessary).
06
Drizzle each apple with maple syrup, and if desired serve with vanilla ice cream. Serve with a knife and fork.

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