Apple Puff Bake
photo by CountryLady
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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4 half apples
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup sugar, plus
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 2 baking apples (Golden Delicious or Jonagold are good)
- 3⁄4 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 cup shortening (Crisco is good)
- 6 tablespoons milk or 6 tablespoons half-and-half cream
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
directions
- Set oven to 450 degrees.
- In a small saucepan, heat water & 1/2 cup sugar to boiling; reduce the heat, simmer for 5 minutes.
- Peel and core, and cut the apples in half; place in a shallow greased baking dish; pour the sugar mixture over the apples.
- In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt; cut in the shortening with a pastry blender until crumbly.
- Stir in the milk to make dough.
- Top each apple half with a mound of dough (cover the apple well with the mound of dough).
- Make a hollow in the center of each mound of dough.
- Mix together the butter, remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar, and the cinnamon; spoon in hollows of dough.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until apples are tender.
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Reviews
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This was pretty good. Got up very early and was looking for a breakfast idea and saw the picture of this and decided to try it. I resized the recipe to make 6 servings. I used golden yellow sugar (light brown) to make the syrup. In the dry ingredients, left out the salt, used 3/4 tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp baking powder for the 6 serving size recipe and used buttermilk for the milk. Used only 1/4 cup of shortening instead of the 3/8 c the resized recipe called for. It worked just fine. This is probably meant for a dessert but it was great for breakfast instead of cereal. Some ate it plain, some poured on milk and some topped it with vanilla yogurt. It was enjoyed by all.
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This was so delicious served warm with frozen yogurt! The apples reduce & combine with the syrup during the baking process and the end result is similar to apple cobbler. I used just 1 tbsp of sugar in the topping & added a dash of nutmeg. Since the dough was rather sticky & I had trouble making a well, I just placed the mixture on top. As you can see from the photo, it spread out nicely & the sugar crystallized giving great colour to the topping. Thanx for another repeat dessert Kitten!
Tweaks
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This was pretty good. Got up very early and was looking for a breakfast idea and saw the picture of this and decided to try it. I resized the recipe to make 6 servings. I used golden yellow sugar (light brown) to make the syrup. In the dry ingredients, left out the salt, used 3/4 tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp baking powder for the 6 serving size recipe and used buttermilk for the milk. Used only 1/4 cup of shortening instead of the 3/8 c the resized recipe called for. It worked just fine. This is probably meant for a dessert but it was great for breakfast instead of cereal. Some ate it plain, some poured on milk and some topped it with vanilla yogurt. It was enjoyed by all.