Christmas baked apples with brandy soaked fruit recipe
These baked apples with brandy-soaked fruit make a fabulous addition to your Christmas dessert table and go particularly well with Christmas pudding.
Brandy, soaked fruit, cinnamon and cloves all conjure up the elements that make it so festive. Your house will smell lovely, and these are so easy to prepare.
Taking the core out of the apple would have been so much easier if I had an apple corer gadget. Instead, I gouged out a wide hole around the stem and then sliced down in a square shape to remove it. I tried to avoid cutting all the way through to the bottom.
I like to bake Golden Delicious or Pink Lady apples
Recipe | this makes enough to stuff 8 apples
- 1 1/2 cups seedless raisins (I used a mixture)
- 3 cloves
- 8 apples (or however many you will need)
- 3 T brown sugar
- 1 t cinnamon
- zest of half an orange
- 3 T brandy
Pre heat the oven to 180 C. Cover the raisins and cloves with boiling water and set aside to soak for 15 minutes. Core the apples, trying not to cut all the way through (3/4 of the way down). Mix all the ingredients with the soaked apples and stuff each one as much as you can. Scatter over any leftover fruit and sauce around the apples. Cover with tin foil and bake for an hour.
Serve warm with loads of vanilla ice cream.
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This is a delicious-looking Christmasy dish. It sounds like you are very busy but it also sounds like you are doing wonderfully creative work which is such a joy. I won’t talk about my day job.
Sam, I love the rustic look of all the frames and that backdrop you used .. LOVE IT!
A cooking projects sounds so much. I will miss your posts in my email, but then we all need a break and we all deserve one. Wish you a merriest christmas and a wonderful 2013!
Thanks for this recipe! I am sure it will go down excellent as my mum used to make us baked apples with cinnamon and I absolutely loved it!
I’m gong to try this at Xmas.
Thanks Suzanne, I am lucky to be able to work around my passions, but sometimes money is scarce.
Thanks Kankana and the happiest of holiday wishes to you 🙂
sam
Hi Lynne, baked apples are a joy. I have a similar recipe where I bake them in loads of white wine (also sort of steam in foil in the oven). I then remove the foil half way and the sauce develops a lovely syrupy consistency. Also lovely with toasted almond flakes over the top.
Miam! I made something similar for our Christmas eve dinner, as a side to our apricot cornish hens. In a nutshell the apples were stuffed with Brie cheese, walnuts, thick cubes of bacon and leeks… it was divine!
Really lovely. Baked apples are a winter treasure in our house, so looking forward to your version. Happy holidays.
Thanks Mike, glad you like, and happy holidays to you too.
Hi Eve-Line – wow your apples sound completely delectable, I totally love the sound of that 🙂
Sam
Baked apples and ice cream is best couple 😀