Swedish Baked Apples With Almond Paste Filling
"This comes from the “Earthy Family” website (it’s amazing what a word search will find you!), but I’ve changed it to use store bought almond paste. Serve with whipped cream or custard. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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6
ingredients
- 6 baking apples
- 8 ounces store bought almond paste
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1⁄2 cup dried breadcrumbs
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F / 180 C /gas mark 4.
- Peel the apples and carefully core them almost to the bottom.
- Brush apples with melted butter, then roll them in the breadcrumbs; place onto a shallow oven proof dish.
- Fill the centres of the apples with almond paste; if you have any butter and breadcrumbs left over, drizzle the butter and sprinkle the breadcrumbs evenly over the apples.
- Bake for 40-50 minutes, or until apples are soft.
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Reviews
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Wonderful apples!! I made this recipe using honeycrisp apples and used cornflake crumbs as the coating. Baked for 40 minutes so the apple still had some crispness to it. I topped with whipping cream (unwhipped) that had been mixed with a bit of almond extract to compliment the almond paste. Thank You for sharing Mrs B, will be made often this Autumn! -
I made this on the spur of the moment tonight. I actually used 1/2 breadcrumbs and 1/2 graham cracker crumbs. Rolling the apples in the breadcrumbs did give this a very nice appearance, as bluemoon says. This was a nice 'n easy dessert. -
SO little preparation for such an elegant-looking dessert that is ideal for weeknights or to be served at a dinner party. I used Granny Smith apples and added ½ teaspoon of cinnamon to the almond paste. I lightly greased the dish I put the apples into, and topped each apple with about ½ dozen slivered almonds. Once they had baked, the breadcrumbs gave the apples a lovely golden finish, and the almonds on top had lightly browned. They looked just SO delicious, and they were: a lovely blend of flavours. We ate them with cream. Thank you for a fabulous recipe! I’ve had requests to make them again.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
