Spiced Baked Apples
Serves 7
Ingredients
- 7 Golden Delicious apples
- Juice of 1 lemon
- Julienned zest and juice of 2 oranges
- 2 tsp. vanilla sugar (see Note)
- 2 pinches freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 pinches freshly ground pepper
- 2 pinches cinnamon
- 2 tsp. unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp. honey Cinnamon sticks for decorating, optional
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Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 300°F. Peel the apples and core them. Brush with lemon juice to discourage browning.
- In a small saucepan, warm the orange juice with the zest, vanilla sugar, spices, butter, and honey, swirling the pan, until melted.
- Fit the apples snugly into an ovenproof dish. Drizzle with the spiced orange juice and cover with foil. Reduce the oven temperature to 250°F and bake for 2 hours, turning the apples occasionally. If you like, decorate them with cinnamon sticks just before serving.
- Note: If you don’t have ready-made vanilla sugar, prepare your own by storing used, dried vanilla beans in a closed jar of sugar for at least 1 week. Simply replace any sugar you use to have a permanent supply on hand.
