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Baked Apples

Baked apples are filled with the best of fall’s sweet flavors. Warm spices, oats, nuts and raisins turn the humble apple into a simple, cozy dessert the whole family will love.

Once the fall season hits, nothing tastes better than a classic recipe that brings back childhood memories. For me, baked apples were always the first dessert to hit the oven, and I loved filling the house with that cinnamon apple aroma.

But the best part is that baked apples taste just like an apple pie, with only half the effort to make. All you have to do is scoop, stuff, and bake – it’s incredibly easy. And oh, so tasty.

Choose The Right Apples For Baking

When it comes to apple recipes, remember that choosing the right ones will make all the difference. Why? Because apples all bake a bit differently.

For this recipe you want the apples to be soft on the inside while maintaining their firm shape. I use Honeycrisp apples in this recipe, but any large baking apple should work just fine, like Fuji, Gala, Cortland, Pink Lady, Jazz or Braeburns.

Baked Apples Ingredients

The filling of this recipe is similar to the topping on my berry crisp. Here’s a list of things you’ll need.

• Apples: Any of the above options will work!
• Old Fashioned Oats: Rolled oats are my ideal choice for a chunky texture.
• Nuts: Feel free to use your favorite nuts. I’m definitely a fan of pecans.
• Dried Fruit: I’m using raisins, but you can use any dried fruit.
• Coconut Sugar: My favorite unrefined sugar in granulated form.
• Spices: Nothing evokes fall better than a cinnamon and nutmeg combo.
• Butter or Ghee: Helps to bind the topping together.
• Apple Cider: To baste the apples while they’re cooking. You could also use apple juice.
• Lemon Juice: Just a squeeze over the apples keeps them fresh.

Want to make this dairy-free or vegan? Just swap the butter for vegan butter or coconut oil.

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How To Make Baked Apples

• Create cinnamon oat mixture. Mix together the oats, pecans, dried fruit, cinnamon, nutmeg, and melted butter in a bowl.
• Core the apples. Squeeze a bit of lemon juice over the apples. Then using a melon baller or knife, scoop a cavity that’s an inch or so wide.
• Peel the top skin. Use a paring knife to remove 1/2″ of the apple’s skin on top to prevent it from bursting.
• Fill in the good stuff. In a baking dish, stand the apples upright and stuff with the cinnamon oat mixture.
• Pour and bake. Pour the apple cider into the pan and bake for about 45-60 minutes. Remember to baste them a few times!
• Serve hot. You can pour the syrupy liquid over the apples or top it with ice cream. Keep on reading for more options.

Tips For The Best Baked Apple Recipe

• Watch the time. Each type of apple varies in terms of moisture, so keep an eye on them once they hit the 45 minute mark while baking.
• Don’t cut all the way. When coring your apple, make sure to not cut all the way through to the bottom. Otherwise your filling will spill out.
• Balance your apples. If you find that your apples are wobbly and not standing upright, slice the bottom of the apple to balance it out.

Topping And Filling Variations

For toppings, a scoop of ice cream (that turns melty delicious) on top is always a winning combo. But you can also…

• Dollop some coconut whipped cream.
• Drizzle homemade caramel sauce.
• Sprinkle an extra dash of cinnamon.

For the filling, you can…

• Mix in candied ginger.
• Swap pecans with walnuts or slivered almonds.
• Use pumpkin spice instead of cinnamon and nutmeg.

Storing And Reheating

• To Store: These will stay fresh in a container for up to 3 days in the fridge.
• To Reheat: Simply pop one of your baked apples in the microwave for one minute.
• Make ahead 1-2 days before serving. While these are best fresh, you can make them ahead and then re-bake them in the oven at 350F for about 10 minutes or until warmed through.

Delicious And Easy Fall Desserts

Cozy desserts are what fall is all about. So here’s a few delicious ideas to add to your list.

Baked Apples Recipe Video

Want to see how I make this recipe? Watch the video below!

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Magic Caramel Self Saucing Baked Apples

Sweet, plump, juicy Baked Apples that makes its own caramel sauce!! Just fill halved apples with a simple nut, butter and sugar spiced filling, bake for 40 minutes, and it comes out sitting in a pool of bubbling caramel sauce. It’s like…. magic!

This is a terrific quick and easy dessert for assembling ahead then popping in the oven while you’re eating dinner. Just don’t forget the ice cream!

Today’s recipe is brought into this world courtesy of Modi Apples, bright red balls with a hint of yellow full of crisp juiciness with fabulous apple flavour!

Baked Apples recipe

I’ve been munching on Modi Apples obsessively since I discovered them which, admittedly, was only a couple of months ago when I was asked to try them.

I feel bad saying this, but I must confess I was a wee bit dubious because for as long as I can remember, I’ve approached store bought apples with caution, knowing that it’s actually quite hard to get really great eating ones here in Australia – or at least, here in Sydney.

How wrong I was.

To everyone who’s bitten into promising looking apples only to be sorely disappointed, meet your new favourite apple – Modi.

They get full marks on my Apple Score Card: super juicy, crisp but not hard, and most importantly for me, they have great flavour, something that most of the main stream apples lack.

Added bonus: it’s a good snacking size, a bit smaller than most apples. If you’re looking at my hand for size context, remember what my friends call me – Baby Hands. 😂

With apples this good, I wanted to make something real quick ‘n easy and so sinfully delicious, you’ll want to make this over and over again.

So this is what I came up with – Baked Apples.

But these are not your usual Baked Apples. 🙂 These are self saucing. As in –when you pull this out of the oven, those apples are sitting in a pool of bubbling caramel.

How to make Caramel Baked Apples

Cut apples in half and scoop out core. Fill with a sugar, butter, walnut spiced mixture, piling it high to make a nice mound of the filling. Mix together cornflour/cornstarch and water, then pour this into the pan.

After 40 minutes in the oven, some of the butter and sugar in the filling melts down and through the apples and into the pan and creates a caramel sauce. It’s like…magic!

Want extra caramel sauce? Make some Salted Caramel Sauce!

What kind of apples are best for baked apples?

Any apples are suitable for making baked apples, it comes down to personal taste. I like to use red apples – any type. If you want a bit of tang, use Granny Smith Apples.

Top with a big scoop of ice cream, or even a dollop of cream. It’s the ultimate combo – sweet, crunch, creamy, warm, cold, creamy…. it’s SO GOOD!! – Nagi x

PS If you’re wondering if baked apples are healthy, well, let’s put it this way. The apple part is healthy. Everything else is not. 😂 But it’s much healthier to have Baked Apples for dessert than a giant slice of Chocolate Fudge Cake or Strawberry Cheesecake!

And remember, everything in moderation right? Good food, good life!

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Baked Apples

Classic baked apples are an easy, comforting dessert. Filled with pecans, cinnamon, raisins, butter, and brown sugar, our baked apples recipe is perfect for cozy afternoons.

Elise founded Simply Recipes in 2003 and led the site until 2019. She has an MA in Food Research from Stanford University.

I was in New England a few weeks ago, at the height of apple picking season. I’m guessing they’re all down now, but our apples here in Northern California are at their peak. There are so many great varieties in the market to choose from!

Our Favorite Baked Apples Recipe

We first posted this recipe in 2006, during another trip east to visit my goddaughter and her family. A gang of us went apple picking and came home with so many we spent a week cooking them into pies, crisps, and these fabulous baked apples.

The Best Apples for Baked Apples

The girls and I used Rome Beauties, a variety of apple that is particularly well suited for baking this way. We based our recipe on one from the Joy of Cooking, with butter and brown sugar, and we fancied it up a bit with chopped pecans and raisins.

Growing up we always had baked apples served with a generous portion of vanilla ice cream, a combination I highly recommend.

Simple Tip!

For more information on which apple varieties are best for baking, check out our Guide to Apples.

The Best Apple Varieties for Baking

• Granny Smith (green and tart)
• Rome Beauty (red, mildly sweet and tart)
• Honeycrisp
• Braeburn (firm and spicy sweet)
• Jonagold and Jonathans
• Pink Lady
• Melrose (cross between a Jonathan and a Red Delicious)
• Winesap (spicy tart and thick skinned)
• Golden Delicious (yellow, sweet, soft, and thin skinned)
• Corland (related to the McIntosh, crisp and slightly tart)
• Gala (mellow and sweet, use less sugar with these)

Variations on Baked Apples

• Use dairy-free butter to make them vegan.
• Vary the spices, like using pumpkin pie spice instead.
• Try nutmeg, clove, or a sprinkle of cayenne for a little heat.
• Add dried cherries or cranberries in place of the raisins.
• Use other nuts, like walnuts or hazelnuts.

How to Make Baked Apples in the Microwave

If you’re short on time, you can «bake» your apples in the microwave. Prep the apples as the recipe instructs. Put them in a deep, microwave-safe casserole with a cover. Microwave for 4 minutes and check on the apples. When they are ready, they’ll be tender and a little slouchy, but not mushy. You may need to microwave them for a total of 10 minutes, depending on the size and variety of apples, as well as the wattage of your microwave.

More Easy Apple Dessert Recipes

Baked Apples

«Rome Beauty» is the variety of apple that is best suited to baking, and is worth seeking out if you are making baked apples.

Ingredients

4 large good baking apples , such as Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, or Jonagold

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Baked Apples

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Baked Apples are one of the easiest apple recipes you’ll ever make! Whole, sweet apples are cored and filled with a cinnamon spiced, brown sugar-nut filling and baked until tender. They taste like apple pie or apple crisp but without all the extra work!

Easy Baked Apple Recipe

Nothing says fall quite like an irresistibly delicious autumn apple recipe like so! Simple and old fashioned recipes like this that take you back home are just the best!

These fresh baked apples are the perfect ending to any meal, especially this cozy Slow Cooker Pot Roast or Slow Cooker Beef Stew!

It’s soon to be sweater weather and I can’t hardly wait because that entails comforting soups paired with homemade breads, the best pumpkin and apple desserts in abundance (meaning real cinnamon spice aroma filling the house!), gorgeous, warm fall sunsets, rich hot cocoa and spiced apple cider to warm those breezy fall walks, a rainbow of color blanketing the trees, fairytale-like pumpkin patch visits and so much more!

Isn’t it just one of the best seasons? Start it out with these homemade baked apples, they’re such a great way to welcome fall!

What Ingredients are Needed for Baked Apples?

• Large baking apples – see notes below on good type to use.
• Brown sugar – this gives the apples a bit of caramel-like flavor whereas white sugar wouldn’t.
• Pecans – this adds some substance and flavor contrast to the apples. You’ll love that nutty crunch!
• Cinnamon and nutmeg – we use a generous amount of spice for those tempting autumn flavors here.
• Butter – I used salted butter here so you don’t need to add salt to the filling.
• Vanilla extract – add this slowly because you’ll only need a few drops in each apple.
• Apple juice or apple cider – normally water is used but I think apple juice gives them a little extra flavor, plus you can pour a little over the baked apples after cooking.

How to Make Baked Apples:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Rinse and dry apples.
• Mix sugar, nuts and spices: In a small mixing bowl stir together brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon and nutmeg.

• Stem and core apples: Cut stem from apple and scoop core from apple using a teaspoon, while creating a space about 1-inch wide and being careful not to cut through bottom of apple or the filling will leak.

• Place apples in dish, fill apples: Place apples in a medium baking dish. Divide sugar mixture among apples pressing to fit. Drop about 4 drops of vanilla over filling of each apple then top with 1/2 Tbsp of butter.

• Add apple juice to baking dish: Pour apple juice into bottom of baking around apples, don’t pour into apples.

How Long to Bake Apples?

• Bake (uncovered) in preheated oven until apples are tender, about 35 – 45 minutes. Keep in mind bake time will vary based on type of apple used, size of apple and how tender you like the apples.

What Types of Apples Work Best for Baked Apples?

A crisp type, fairly sweet apple works best here (keep in mind they’ll each retain color differently and some need to bake longer than others to soften). Here are some good choices:

• Honeycrisp (used here)
• Fuji
• Rome
• Golden Delicious
• Cortland
• Jonagold or Jonathan
• Pink lady
• Gala
• Braeburn

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