Barbers Baked Apples Recipes

SIMPLE BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 2 quart casserole dish, or coat with non-stick cooking spray.
• Place apples in a large bowl. In a small bowl, mix together sugar, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Stir spice mixture into apples until evenly distributed. Fold in raisins and walnuts. Spoon into prepared dish. Pour milk evenly over apple mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes, or until soft and bubbly. Allow to cool slightly before serving.

NO-SUGAR BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Remove cores and seeds of apples, leaving the bottoms intact. Place into an 8x8-inch casserole or baking dish. Place 1 teaspoon butter and 1 teaspoon cinnamon into each cored apple.
• Bake in the preheated oven until apples are softened, 20 to 25 minutes, watching to make sure they don't pop.

MICROWAVE BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Core the apples, leaving the bottom intact.
• In a bowl, mix the brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Spoon the sugar mixture into the apples and set a teaspoon (or more to your taste) of butter on top of each apple. Place the apples in a deep casserole dish and cover.
• Microwave for 3 1/2 to 4 minutes or until tender. Let the apples sit for a couple minutes before serving.

BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Scoop out the core from top of the apple, leaving a well. Do not cut all the way through. Stuff each apple with 2 tablespoons brown sugar and 1 tablespoon butter. Place in a shallow baking dish and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes, until sugar begins to caramelize and apples are tender.

BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Ask a grown-up to turn the oven on to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Sit each apple on the worktop and push the apple corer into the centre of each one (or ask a grown-up to do this for you).
• Mix the sultanas, muscovado sugar and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Stand up the apples, side by side, in a baking dish. Using your fingers, push a little bit of the sultana mixture into each apple, using up all the mixture between them.
• Add a blob of butter to the top of each and sprinkle over the demerara sugar. Ask a grown-up to put the dish in the oven for 20 mins or until the apples are cooked through.

BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Core apples to within 1/2 inch of bottom. Peel 1-inch strip of skin from around middle of each apple, or peel upper half of each apple to prevent splitting. Place apples in ungreased glass baking dish.
• Place 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 teaspoon butter and 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon in center of each apple. Sprinkle with additional cinnamon. Pour water into baking dish until 1/4 inch deep.
• Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced with a fork. (Time will vary depending on size and variety of apple.) Spoon syrup in dish over apples several times during baking if desired.

" BARBER'S" BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• For topping combine packed brown sugar with softened butter and set aside.
• Core apples almost to bottom, leaving the base intact.
• With the point of the knife, cut through just the skin of the apple, all the way round the middle; make a very shallow cut.
• Soften butter.
• In a bowl, combine butter and brown sugar.
• Stir in nuts, raisins, cinnamon, salt and lemon juice.
• Pack the mixture into the cored apples, pushing down well. Leave a mound, about a teaspoon in size, on top of each apple.
• Place apples in an 8 by 11-inch baking dish. Pour apple juice in dish.
• Bake for about 45 minutes or until the apples are very tender.
• Spoon a teaspoon of reserved topping over each apple. Bake 5 minutes longer.
• Remove from oven and cool to just warm.
• If topping browns too quickly, cover apples loosely with foil.