Baked Apples with Caramel Sauce

Have Apples in a different way with a Caramel flavoured Sauce.

• Difficulty: Easy
• Category: Desserts, Dinner, Healthy Recipes, Life Style Recipes, Light Dinners, Lunch, Meal Times, Recipes, Summer Recipes, Vegetarian
• Cuisine: Boere Kos, South African
• Cooking Method: Oven, Stove Top

Ingredients

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 Granny Smith Apples ((Cored but not Peeled_)
• 3 Red Delicious Apples ((Cored but not Peeled))
• 140 g Brown Sugar
• 175 ml Water
• 1/2 tsp Nutmeg ((Grated))
• 1/4 tsp Ground Black Pepper
• 45 g Walnuts
• 45 g Sultanas
• 55 g Butter OR Margarine ((Diced))

INGREDIENTS FOR CARAMEL SAUCE:

• 15 g Butter OR Margarine
• 125 ml Whipped Cream

Instructions

METHOD:

1. 1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees or Gas oven on 5. Grease a baking tin just large enough to hold the Apples.
2. 2. With a small knife cut at an angle to enlarge the core opening at the stem-end of each Apple to about 2.5 cm in diameter. (The opening should be resemble a funnel in shape).
3. 3. Arrange Apples in the prepared pan, stem-end up.
4. 4. In a small saucepan, combine the Brown Sugar, Water, Nutmeg and Black Pepper. Bring to boil stirring for about 6 minutes.
5. 5. Mix together the walnuts and sultanas. Spoon some of the Walnut-Sultanas mixture into the opening in each Apple.
6. 6. Top each Apple with some of the diced Butter OR Margarine.
7. 7. Spoon the Brown Sugar sauce over and around the Apples. Bake and basting occasionally with the sauce until Apples are just tender, about 50 minutes. Transfer the apples to a serving dish. Reserving the brown sugar sauce in baking pan. Keep Apples warm.
8. 8. For the Caramel sauce mix the Butter OR Margarine, Cream and reserved Brown Sugar sauce in a pan, Bring to boil and stirring occasionally and let simmer for about 2 minutes or until thickened. Let the sauce cool slightly before serving.

Recipe Notes