Hi Elise, thanks for the apple recipe. Joan and I have SO MANY lovely ones left over from Rosh Hashanah, and we need something do do with them.

Glad you're enjoying the New England fall. I'm from Boston, as you may know, and we used to pick apples in Bolton and Harvard. Where'd you get 'em?

Again, thanks!

Best,
-A-

When I was growing up, my mom was always on Weight Watchers, and one of my favorite WW recipes was baked apples. She cored the apples and peeled the top third of the skin, sprinkled with cinnamon, and filled the core to overflowing with diet black cherry soda! Sounds weird, I know, but it was actually quite delicious. And with no sugar!

I hope you're having a wonderful visit. The kids are adorable. This post reminded me of good memories I have of making baked apples with my mother.

Looks great, Elise. The family went apple picking this weekend, and I've got close to 30 pounds of Jonagolds, and nothing to do with them (can you say applesauce? groan...). I've also tried a Baked Apple recipe that's quite good. You make a caramel sauce, core/peel the apples, and bake tightly covered in a roasting pan with the sauce poured over. Reduce the caramel sauce after baking, and serve with ice cream and the caramel sauce. The caramel sauce gets infused with the apple juices. Delicioso.

Hi Elise,
I am a big fan of your blog and have been trying some of the easy recipes.This recipe sounds so good and I think I'll make it. But how do you serve it? Do you serve it as a whole or cut into slices? Is it good with all kinds of apples- I have some Mcintosh and Cortland (apple picking at Shelburne Farms, MA!!).Thanks.
-Sudesna.

Hi Elise,

Apples out of the oven are delicious. My mum made some of them last week! Really fantastic! If you take a sharp knife and you make a cut all around the top (sorry, I'm not English but Dutch so it is kind of hard to explain). About 2 or 2 1/2 CENTIMETERS under the top you make a cut all around the apple. Actually, you make two cuts so that you end up having cut about 0.3 millimeters out of the apple for about 0.3 centimeters deep. This prevents your apples from bursting. Might look nicer (doesn't matter for the tast!).

Wow! that was an amazing recipe, I loved it! Instead of raisins though, we used dried cranberries (craisins!) in the spirit of Canadian Thanksgiving.
And a hello to the girls! You look like you're much better helpers than me! I bet you didn't eat all the pecans before they had to go in the apples!

Baked apples, very good idea with all the apples that I have in my house this is a good way to use some of them.

Thanks for this, fall always makes me long for these types of treats.

Oh thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for posting this!

This is the way my mother used to make them, and I've been looking for this recipe so I can make 'em for my little one! :)

Elise- thanks for posting this! My grandma would make these when she came to visit - it's so much fun to eat a dessert that's hot and in its very own natural package!

Hi Elise,

Inspiring as always. Just wanted to say how very much I love your blog and your approach to food, family, friends, etc. This comment isn't germane to this entry--but I thought you would be curious to check out the laptop lunches pool on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/laptop_lunches/pool/. Interesting group of amateur chefs all packing their lunches and showing the photos, sometimes the recipes using waste-free laptop lunchboxes. Not just for kids.

Also--love how you can print a recipe out from your blog and it's beautifully formatted without all the ads, comments, etc. Yours is the only food blog I visit where that happens.

I love baked apples. I often make them in the microwave for a quick snack with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter. I will be sure to try this recipe as well.

I made these this weekend and they were a huge hit. I really enjoy reading your blog.

I tend to cheat by just slicing some apples, topping them with little pats of butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg (no nuts because husband doesn't like) and baking for ~ 20 minutes. I think it might be the "lazy version" of what you have done here - I'll have to try your version when we have company... When still warm from the oven and topped with home-made vanilla ice cream I'm sure the company will swoon... :)

I made these today using Golden Delicious but I didn't like them as much as I would have if I used Granny Smith or Red Delicious. However they were still very tasty, and I made some caramelized pecans to go on top of the vanilla ice cream I served with it.

I overcooked them, but I prefer them mushy. The skin pulled away from the fruit though and didn't look as nice as yours.

I plan on trying your shortrib recipe next. I've never had to do a two day process to make them fall apart tender, I just boil them in beef stock over medium heat for three or four hours. However I think the wine will make an excellent addition and I will try the two day process.

We live in Cumbria, England. Whenever I get homesick for Thanksiving, we think of this time
of year when we lived in California and all the
wonderful smells drift back. I've been on a binge of making baked apples, with cinnamon and
raisins and dried fruit stuffed in the apples.
Told my daughter who lives in Surrey what we are
having and she said, 'James hates baked apples'!
(husband) I thought it very hurtful and unnecessary to say that. Meanwhile WE are enjoying them. My daughter couldn't believe my husband, prefers them to raw apples!!! Thank you.

Made these tonight. Quite yummy--thanks.

I've almost eighteen and have been very interested in cooking lately. I usually just make meals with chicken and avoid desert, but I tried this recipie and wow. It was delicious! Instead of using water I used Apple Sauce, it gave it an even stronger flavor. Just baking it reminded me of my Grandmother, it was very relaxing.

I was looking for a baked apple recipe for my newly-picked Honeycrisps, and this one looks very much like what I wanted. I'm tempted to go make them right this very minute instead of waiting for breakfast tomorrow! I'll try to show some restraint :-) I need to subscribe to your feed now - the rest of Simply Recipes looks very appealing, too, and I wouldn't want to miss anything!

One of the other commenters left a note about how she makes a caramel sauce for the apples. I do the same, but in a "cheating" way. I put water with cornstarch & vanilla extract in the bottom of the pan and then I core the apples all the way through so the brown sugar and butter and leak through to the water while it's cooking. I occasionally baste the apples through the cooking with the sauce and at the end you have a fabulous caramel sauce that is quickly brought together with a whisk.

I love your recipes!! I chanced upon this baked apple recipe and just happened to have some apples sitting there just waiting to be baked. They turned out great! I can't wait to make them again! Thanks for sharing the recipes :)

Thanks for your recipe. My mom used to make these for us years ago. Living in central Washington, where apples are everywhere and we can usually get them free, baked apples as a tasty low-cal and healthy dessert are a natural.

Isn't the internet wonderful? I just typed in "recipes, baked apples," and there you were.

I just popped a batch into the oven. We can hardly wait to get at them.

Thanks again.........Dave

wow this was a great recipie, I left mine a little underdone cause I like a slight crunch (its a texture thing) but I love it! first time making this or trying it and it wont be my last!!
I think I'll use a touch less cinnimon next time it's a little bitter but it's amazing!!!!
Thanks!!

I just bought individual baked apple crocks in the mountains of NC. I've always loved baked apples and these crocks were supposed to make it easy to bake just a couple of apples at a time. They are round and deep enough for a single apple and have a little post in the middle. How do I bake my apples in these?

Not having used these, I wouldn't know. I think you'll just have to experiment. ~Elise

Hello I have never sent a email to some one I don't know also just learning to get round the computer I am 55 years old I am disabled my husband bless him thought this is something I would enjoy. Well Elise, not so sure but found your recipe and had ago,loved it so much we had it 14 times as to date. We shop at Sanisburys in Peterborough England. Even some of the till girls have your recipe.well keep up the good work Ginny