Apples, cinnamon, honey and walnuts. This is the smell of Christmas in the kitchen. Pure heaven. This is my favorite Christmas dessert or lunch or breakfast or dinner. The beautiful part is that you can make this recipe with your kids. It’s easy, simple and absolutely delicious. Your little ones will love to mix everything together and taste it along the way. I know I did that all the time.
I always use different types of apples: sour, sweet and very sweet. You will cover everybody’s taste in the family. For the vegan ones you can replace the honey with maple syrup.
Use apples which are very ripe if you want the baked apples very sweet. My dad used to do this recipe with small apples or the one that are over ripe. You can use whole apples or pieces of apples. Just put the mix on the pieces instead of inside.
Ingredients:
- 4 -6 apples
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ cup walnuts
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 3 tablespoons honey (maple syrup)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Directions:
Turn the oven on to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. With a small spoon, scoop out inner core and seeds from inside of each apple up to bottom (do not go all the way through apple). Arrange apples, cavity side up, in a glass or ceramic baking tray. I used my banana loaf baking tray.
In a bowl mix the cinnamon, coconut oil, honey, walnuts and lemon juice.
Fill each cavity with the walnut mixture. Sprinkle remaining walnut mixture on top of the apples.
Bake the apples 30 to 40 minutes or until you like how tender they are. Rotate the baking tray halfway through the baking.
Serve it warm, simple as it is or be inspired and add vanilla ice cream or my favorite: sour cherry jam. Sour and sweet are matches in heaven.
You can serve baking apples anytime you like. Have some coffee or hot chocolate next to them. Enjoy!
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I absolutely love baked apples! I have a recipe like this, but I have never added nuts! I will try it next time! 🙂 Also, instead of lemon juice, I add some liquor… it gives a very nice taste!
Sounds great with liquor.
These look amazing, I was looking for an Apple recipe. Thanks!
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Oh those look nice. I like the method of half coring the apples rather than going all the way through – keeps the nice gooey stuff on the top half of the apple instead of running out of the bottom. I always enjoyed dates and brown sugar in mine but I like the natural honey touch in this version. Keep the Christmas goodies coming!
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Thank you for sharing this recipe! I’ll be trying it soon 🙂
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I’ve never tried baked apples before since they’re rare where I come from (Singapore). They look delish!
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YUM! They look (and sound) like they taste AMAZING!!!
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The baked apples look delicious! It’s been awhile since i made them and you gave me a healthy idea for Christmas. Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
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This looks so nice and easy to do. I plan to try this recipe.
Enjoy!