Apple with brown sugar

Classic Southern Baked Apples

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Nutrition Facts (per serving)
184	Calories
2g	Fat
44g	Carbs
1g	Protein

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Nutrition Facts
Servings: 6
Amount per serving
Calories	184
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2g	3%
Saturated Fat 1g	6%
Cholesterol 5mg	2%
Sodium 11mg	0%
Total Carbohydrate 44g	16%
Dietary Fiber 2g	7%
Protein 1g
Calcium 34mg	3%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Nothing beats the smell of a kitchen filled with the aromas of baked apples and cinnamon. Comforting, reminiscent of fall, and common to many recipes, this delicious combination is a real treat in itself and requires very little more to be a decadent and tasty dessert. Our classic baked apples requires additionally just raisins, butter, nutmeg, and sugar to put on your table soft and creamy apples flavored with holiday-inspired ingredients. Use as a dessert served with whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, or sweetened mascarpone. Or chop it into small pieces once cooked to add on top of yogurt parfaits or vanilla pound cakes. If you have a bounty of apples after a trip to the orchard, or it’s apple season and apples are plenty and inexpensive, try this recipe instead of going for the classic, but amazing, apple sauce or apple butter.

For the apples, we recommend going for baking apples and not just any apples. Although most apple varieties are delicious, not all are great when baking. Many lack texture once cooked, are too watery and lose flavor with the heat, or simply disintegrate and wet the pastry that encases them. Most traditional recipes for apple pie call for Granny Smith, as the tangy but sweet flavor and firm texture make them a go-to apple, plus they are available pretty much anywhere you go. But there are many other types of apples that are just as wonderful. If you want to give others a try, go for Envy, Honeycrisp, Mutsu, pink lady, or Jonagold.

This recipe is very easy and requires very little technical skill, so it’s a great dessert for novice cooks who want to make an impression. It also is a great starting point for experimentation with additions and substitutions: use dried cranberries, chopped dates, or figs to replace the raisins or add sliced almonds or walnuts on top once the apples are baked to add some crunch. To serve, use whipped cream or try a novel dessert cheese, like wedges of Emmentaler or Pecorino, or soft cheeses like goat’s, Brie, or Cammembert.

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Apple crumble

less than 30 mins

30 mins to 1 hour

This is the easiest apple crumble recipe and an all-time favourite quick and easy dessert.

Each serving provides 618 kcal, 6g protein, 83g carbohydrates (of which 43g sugars), 28.5g fat (of which 18g saturates), 3.5g fibre and 0.21g salt.

less than 30 mins

30 mins to 1 hour

Ingredients

For the crumble

• 300g/10½oz plain flour, sieved
• pinch of salt
• 175g/6oz brown sugar
• 200g/7oz unsalted butter at room temperature, cubed, plus a little for greasing

For the filling

• 450g/1lb apples, peeled, cored and cut into 1cm/½in pieces
• 50g/2oz brown sugar
• 1 tbsp plain flour
• 1 pinch ground cinnamon

Method

Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.

Place the flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl and mix well. Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour mixture. Keep rubbing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Place the fruit in a large bowl and sprinkle over the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Stir well being careful not to break up the fruit.

Butter a 24cm/9in ovenproof dish. Spoon the fruit mixture into the bottom, then sprinkle the crumble mixture on top.

Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes until the crumble is browned and the fruit mixture bubbling.

Serve with thick cream or custard.

Recipe Tips

Bramley apples will turn to a lovely fluff underneath your crumble, in this recipe with toffee-ish brown sugar. If you want a crumble with distinct apple pieces, use a dessert apple and reduce the sugar quantity.

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Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze

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Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze is a sugary sweet cake filled with fresh apples, pecans, and topped with buttery brown sugar decadence. This simple cake is little slice of comfort just waiting to be devoured!

*This post is sponsored in conjunction with AppleWeek . I received product samples from sponsor companies to aid in the creation of the AppleWeek recipes. All opinions are mine alone.

This Fresh Apple Cake is packed full of sugary goodness. Thanks to the wonderful folks at Imperial Sugar for providing me with all the sweets for Apple Week!

Being a food blogger sure does require using lots of sugar, so I am so very thankful for the abundance they so graciously shared with me! And I have to say I have always been so impressed by the quality of the product. It’s always a perfect consistency and never clumps up (And that is so important y’all)! Just perfect for all this Southern Baking going on this week.

Make sure to visit Imperial Sugar on social channels and look for their wonderful products in your local stores!

Sweet Hospitality

And speaking of sweet! I have to tell you about some of the wonderful people we have come to know and love through my daughter. You may have heard me talk about her going away to college. She has made her way to Mississippi via a friend that moved here to FL for a few years with her family and then moved back to her hometown. Well, that took my daughter there for spring break and summer visits to see her friend she missed so dearly.

So when time to go to college came around she wanted to be with her bestie and some of the wonderful friends she had made. That led us to visits in Mississippi and meeting Marilese’s (Bri’s friend) grandparents, who generously opened their home to us!

If you ever get a chance you want to visit (wink wink), because both Wayne and Barbara Carter are the SWEETEST friends, best cooks, and most hospitable people you will ever meet! Wayne had breakfast ready each morning and it was a feast! We also enjoyed long talks, laughs, sight-seeing, and family dinners with them. AND. Barbara’s Fresh Apple Cake ! This is one of the recipes I had to bring home and share with you! There may be more in the future because they can cook!

How to make Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze

Step 1. Preheat your oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 9 X 13 baking dish with cooking spray.

Step 2. In a large bowl or stand mixer, mix oil and sugar until well combined. Add in eggs one at a time. Slowly add in self rising flour until combined and mix in vanilla. Fold in nuts and apples. The batter will be very thick.

TIP for using All Purpose Flour: Mrs. Barbara makes this with self rising flour. But you can use all purpose flour if you do not have self rising. Her original recipe calls for 2 ВЅ cups all purpose flour, ВЅ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda, and 2 teaspoons baking powder.

Step 3. Spread into prepared 9 X 13 dish. Bake for about 40 to 55 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from oven and let cool as you start glaze.

Brown Sugar Glaze

Step 1 for Glaze. In a saucepan, over medium heat, while stirring add butter and brown sugar and cook until it dissolves. Add in powdered sugar and milk and stir until well combined and melted into glaze.

Step 2 for Glaze. Immediately pour glaze over cake and serve warm.

Make sure to share Fresh Apple Cake with Brown Sugar Glaze with someone you love! I truly believe recipes are meant to be shared. I am so glad the Carters shared this with me. Not only do I now have lifelong friends, I have cherished memories made around the table!

Other Apple Recipes to Enjoy

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Baked Apples Stuffed with Oatmeal & Brown Sugar

If I’m not feeling like making something elaborate and just want an easy, warm dessert to end an evening, this is where I turn: baked apples. Scoop out the core and stuff the insides with a mix of oatmeal, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. The baked apples soften into a spoonable treat while the brown sugar melts down into a caramel syrup.

The only thing that could make this simple autumn dessert even better would be a scoop of ice cream on the side. Naturally.

My mom made this dessert all the time when we were kids, and we loved it. Besides the straight-up oatmeal and brown sugar mix, she would sometimes add nuts, raisins, or even a scoop of cream cheese or peanut butter as an extra-special treat. For my brother and me, this was the most decadent treat imaginable; while I’m sure my parents loved having a fairly wholesome dessert with which to satisfy their sugar-loving children.

Looking for an even faster treat? Here are 7 tips for making baked apples in the microwave.

I appreciate this dessert even more now that I’m grown. It still satisfies a weeknight craving for something warm and sweet, but I’ve also made a double batch for an easy dinner party dessert. Dressed up with a scoop of ice cream, a dollop of crème fraîche, or a drizzle of chocolate sauce, baked apples are a crowd-pleaser — and it’s a good one to have in your back pocket for gluten-free and vegan guests, too.

P.S. Any leftover apples make a fantastic breakfast the next day. I should know — I’ve eaten enough of them!

More apple desserts we love:

Oatmeal-Brown Sugar Baked Apples

Dressed up with a scoop of ice cream, baked apples are a crowd-pleaser — a good one to have in your back pocket for gluten-free and vegan guests, too.

Yield Serves 4, easily multiplied for larger crowds

• fish-free
• alcohol-free
• vegetarian
• shellfish-free
• pork-free
• pescatarian
• egg-free
• soy-free
• red-meat-free

• Calories 222
• Fat 3.6 g (5.6%)
• Saturated 1.9 g (9.6%)
• Carbs 47.3 g (15.8%)
• Fiber 4.8 g (19.3%)
• Sugars 36.5 g
• Protein 1.1 g (2.3%)
• Sodium 8.9 mg (0.4%)

Ingredients

medium apples, such as Jonagold, Fuji, or Honeycrisp

packed brown sugar

old-fashioned rolled oats

Pinch ground cloves

unsalted butter, cut in 4 pieces

Optional extras:

Orange zest, lemon zest, grated ginger, candied ginger, raisins or other dried fruit, chopped nuts, cream cheese, mascarpone, peanut butter, Nutella

For serving:

ice cream, crème fraîche, whipped cream, coconut whipped cream

Instructions

Arrange a rack in the lower-middle position of the oven and heat the oven to 375°F.

Remove the core of the apples, cutting to within a half-inch of the bottom of the apple and creating a well roughly 3/4-inch wide. This is easy to do with an apple corer, but can also be done with a melon baller, grapefruit spoon, or a paring knife.

Place the brown sugar, oatmeal, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and any extras in a medium bowl and stir to combine. Divide this mixture between the apples, packing the wells firmly.

Arrange the apples in a baking dish (like an 8×8-inch Pyrex dish), and top each one with a pat of butter. Pour the water into the bottom of the dish and cover loosely with aluminum foil.

Bake for 20 minutes. Uncover and continue baking until the apples are soft and the brown sugar has melted into a syrup, 20 to 30 minutes more. You can test the apples by poking a paring knife through the oatmeal mixture and into the interior of the apple; it should slide into the apple easily with no resistance. The skin on the apples will also become wrinkled and soft by the end of cooking. Serve with a scoop of ice cream, crème fraîche, or whipped cream.

Recipe Notes

Gluten-free baked apples: Be sure to use a gluten-free brand of oatmeal if making this for someone with a celiac or gluten intolerance.

Vegan baked apples: Skip the butter and serve the apples either plain or with coconut whipped cream.

Storage: Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 5 days and can be reheated in the microwave or eaten cold.

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