If you love apples, you’re missing out if you’ve never baked one. They are delicious raw and crunchy, in salads, and on oatmeal. But when you bake an apple, you can unlock all sorts of new flavors and textures. Check out these baked apple recipes to try.

Baked Apples With Rum and Cinnamon

Serve this delicious treat with rum raisin or vanilla ice cream, or even lemon sorbet. You can omit the rum if you choose.

You will need:

Glaze: 

  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup dark rum
  • 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp. nutmeg
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 6 whole cloves

Apples:

  • 6 apples, washed and cored
  • 6 cinnamon sticks
  • 2 tbsp. butter, cut into small pieces
  • 1 cup unsweetened apple cider
  • Ice cream (optional)

Directions:

  1. For the glaze: Combine the dark brown sugar, rum, nutmeg, salt, cinnamon, and cloves in a medium saucepan. Stir and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook, then reduce for four minutes.
  2. For the apples: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  3. Arrange apples in a single layer in a baking dish. Place a cinnamon stick inside the hole left behind by coring the apple. Drizzle the glaze over the apples, topping each with pieces of butter. To the bottom of the dish, add the cider and put in the middle of the oven.
  4. Baste the apples occasionally as they cook until tender, about a half hour. Serve with ice cream, sorbet, or just by themselves.

Delicious Baked Apples

Tender and tasty to have on a chilly evening, these delicious baked apples will fill your home with the sweet, aromatic smells of cinnamon and nutmeg.

You will need:

  • 1 butter
  • 2 brown sugar
  • 3 vanilla sugar
  • 3 ts cinnamon
  • 1 nutmeg
  • 6 apples, peeled, cored, sliced
  • 3 ½ water

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease large baking dish with butter.
  • Mix brown sugar, vanilla sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
  • Layer 1/3 of the apples in the baking dish, sprinkling with 1/3 of the sugar mixture.
  • Repeat two more layers.
  • Bake for a half hour.
  • Pour water over apples, continuing to bake until tender (15 minutes more).

Visit the Bakery at Robinette’s Apple Haus & Winery

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