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The Best Baked Apples

  • Author: Casey
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: varies
  • Total Time: 2 hours
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x
  • Category: dessert
  • Method: bake
  • Diet: Vegan

Description

Melt-in-your-mouth apples underneath a crunchy, crumble topping. 

Ingredients

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For the Topping

  • 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/4 cup almond flour*
  • 1/2 cup walnuts, pecans, or a mixture of both 
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar*
  • zest of half a small lemon 
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger paste 
  • 2 tablespoons flavorful honey*

For the Apples

  • 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar*
  • 3 apples 
  • 1 cup apple juice*

Instructions

For the Topping

  1. Mix the dry ingredients together in a medium bowl. Then mix in the wet ingredients. 
  2. Cover and refrigerate until ready to use, up to a day. 

For the Apples

  1. Preheat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit. 
  2. In a small bowl, mix the melted coconut oil, cinnamon, and brown sugar. 
  3. Core the apples and cut them in half lengthwise (cut right down through the part you just cored). 
  4. Put the apples, cut-side up, in an 8×8-inch baking pan, and sprinkle the other ingredients on top. Pour the cup of apple juice into the pan, and cover tightly with foil. 
  5. Put the apples in the oven. Begin checking for doneness at around 20 minutes. To test doneness, poke a skewer into the apple. If it can’t go in without moving the apple, it’s not done. If it can go in, but you still feel a little resistance, it’s perfect. If it slips in and moves around inside the apple, good luck: you might end up with a delicious batch of apple butter. (I took my apples out around 30 minutes, but they were small Granny Smiths. Other varieties could take as much to an hour to cook. Use your spidey senses to judge your own batch.) 
  6. When your apples are ready take them out of the oven. Spread a hunk of topping across each apple, taking care to drop as little as possible in the apple juice. 
  7. Turn the oven up to 475 Fahrenheit and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the topping is golden. 

Notes

Almond flour: If you don’t have almond flour, all-purpose flour can also work. 

Brown sugar, honey: Honey, brown sugar, and maple syrup could be used interchangeably anywhere in this recipe. If you use less brown sugar, however, also reduce the salt to 1/4 teaspoon. 

Apple juice: You could also use water or white wine. Spike your juice with brandy or dark rum, if you dare. 

Keywords: baking, baked apples, apple desserts, dessert, vegan, vegetarian, fall, fall desserts, Thanksgiving

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