Hazelnut Maple-Rum Apples

Submitted by Annacia

"Sweet, fragrant baked apples are the ultimate comfort dessert around here. These are a favorite. This is an old recipe from Chatelaine magazine."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup hazelnuts, toasted
• 1⁄4 cup light brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon rum (or brandy)
• 3 apples, sliced in half
• 1⁄2 cup apple juice
• 1⁄4 cup rum
• 1⁄3 cup pure maple syrup

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375°F
2. Coarsely chop nuts.
3. Stir sugar with flour and room-temperature butter.
4. Mix in 1 tablespoon rum, then nuts.
5. Core apples, creating a small cavity.
6. Arrange apples, cut-side up, in a glass baking dish just large enough to hold them.
7. Mound nut filling in cavities.
8. Press down gently.
9. Stir apple juice with 1/4 cup rum.
10. Pour around apples.
11. Drizzle apples with maple syrup. Bake in 375F oven, basting often with pan juices, until tender, about 45 minutes.
12. Place on plates and drizzle with juices.

Reviews

[weekend cooker]

Simply a gem. Made these for an after lunch treat for DS and I to munch on during the football game. I used some rum, and the other ingredients really complimented each other. Loved the brown sugar taste. With all the apple orchards, in the area this is definately a go to recipe, though the supermarkets still sell them. Very flavorful recipe here. :).. Made for PRMR tag