Cider-Baked Apples with Cinnamon Sugar
By America's Test KitchenPublished on August 22, 2007
Time
1¼ hours
Yield
Serves 4
Ingredients
Before You Begin
Use Northern Spy, Cortland, or Golden Delicious apples in this recipe -- they are all excellent. Serve these baked apples warm with whipped cream, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, or crème fraîche.
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place apples in 9-inch Pyrex pie pan or 8-inch-square baking pan. Mix cinnamon and sugar, adding more cinnamon if desired, then sprinkle over and inside apple cavities. Pour cider in pan.
- Bake apples, basting every 15 minutes, until tender when pierced with thin, sharp knife or cake tester, 45 to 55 minutes. Be careful not to overbake, or skins will split, causing apples to lose their shape. Serve warm. (Can be cooled to room temperature, covered, and refrigerated for 2 days. Reheat before serving.)
Time
1¼ hoursYield
Serves 4Ingredients
Test Kitchen Techniques
Ingredients
Test Kitchen Techniques
Ingredients
Test Kitchen Techniques
Why This Recipe Works
We discovered the secrets to a great baked apples recipe: After testing a number of varieties, we ended up choosing Northern Spy, Cortland, and Golden Delicious as our favorites, based on their availability as well as their appearance and flavor. For our baked apples recipe, we preferred baking the apples uncovered instead of wrapping them in foil because the apples caramelized better. To allow steam to escape and thereby keep the apples from bursting, we found that removing a strip of skin around the apple's stem end with a vegetable peeler did the trick.
Before You Begin
Use Northern Spy, Cortland, or Golden Delicious apples in this recipe -- they are all excellent. Serve these baked apples warm with whipped cream, ice cream, vanilla yogurt, or crème fraîche.
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place apples in 9-inch Pyrex pie pan or 8-inch-square baking pan. Mix cinnamon and sugar, adding more cinnamon if desired, then sprinkle over and inside apple cavities. Pour cider in pan.
- Bake apples, basting every 15 minutes, until tender when pierced with thin, sharp knife or cake tester, 45 to 55 minutes. Be careful not to overbake, or skins will split, causing apples to lose their shape. Serve warm. (Can be cooled to room temperature, covered, and refrigerated for 2 days. Reheat before serving.)
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