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Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce

Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce: a warm dessert filled with walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios and raisins.
Recipe Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation 15 minutes
  • Cooking 45 minutes
  • Servings for 4 people

These Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce, a tasty variation on classic Baked Apples, are an indulgent warm dessert, perfect for the coldest evenings and especially as a dessert for the Christmas holidays. In this recipe the baked apples are stuffed with walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios and raisins, a filling flavored with cinnamon. Everything is finished with a generous pour of crème anglaise, a pouring custard that makes this dessert even more special. And with a dusting of powdered sugar, these baked apples with nuts look just as if they were covered in snow.

Perfect for anyone who just can’t give up dessert but doesn’t want to overdo the calories, these baked apples stuffed with nuts and crème anglaise are also great without the custard, to cut the calories even further. If you want to recharge with a light yet indulgent dessert, you absolutely have to try these stuffed baked apples.

If, besides this recipe for Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce, you’d like to try some similar desserts, we also recommend the Baked Pears with Honey and Nuts and the Baked Apples Stuffed with Hazelnuts and Amaretti.

Ingredients for 4 people

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Method

  1. To make the Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce, start by toasting the nuts: spread the walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds and pistachios on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, so that each piece is a little apart from the others.
  2. Bake in a preheated convection oven at 100 to 120 °C (210 to 250 °F) for about 15 to 20 minutes, turning the nuts every so often so they toast evenly.
  3. Meanwhile, soak the raisins in lukewarm water for about 30 minutes. By now the nuts should be toasted: take them out of the oven and let them cool completely.
  4. Wash the apples carefully, slice off the top about one centimeter down from the top of the apple and, using a spoon or an apple corer, remove the core, taking care not to go too deep so you don’t risk breaking the apple.
  5. Coarsely chop the nuts with a knife and transfer them to a bowl. Add the sugar, cinnamon to taste, the soaked raisins, squeezed dry, and the cold butter cut into cubes.
  6. Stir to combine and use the mixture to fill the apples, pressing firmly but gently. As you fill the apples, arrange them in a baking dish.
  7. Add the apple tops to the baking dish as well, cover everything with aluminum foil and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (400 °F) for about 35 to 40 minutes.
  8. Meanwhile, make the crème anglaise: in a large bowl, combine the sugar and the egg yolk, beating with an electric mixer until smooth and frothy.
  9. Pour the milk into a small saucepan, add the half vanilla bean and bring to a boil. Turn off the heat, remove the vanilla bean and pour the milk in a thin stream into the bowl with the egg mixture, while beating everything with the mixer.
  10. When the mixture is smooth, pour it into a small saucepan, turn on the heat and keep beating until the mixture reaches 80 °C (176 °F). If you don’t have a kitchen thermometer, turn off the heat when the custard coats the spoon.
  11. Transfer the crème anglaise to a large bowl and let it cool slightly at room temperature. When the apples are ready, take them out of the oven and gently transfer them to serving plates.
  12. Drizzle them with a spoonful of crème anglaise and cover them again with their tops. Let cool slightly for about 10 minutes, dust with powdered sugar and serve the Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce while still warm. Finally, remember to download our App with exclusive content and fewer ads!

Variations and Alternatives

If you don’t like one of the ingredients, you can simply leave it out; you can also replace the nuts with any other nuts you like.

Tips

We recommend serving these Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts with the crème anglaise on the side: this way, those with a sweet tooth can help themselves to plenty, while anyone on a diet can enjoy the dessert without the custard.

If you like, you can decorate the apples however you want with a special tool, just as we did to make some cute little stars.

Storage

Stuffed Baked Apples with Nuts and Custard Sauce must be eaten right away.

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