Baked Apples
Sweet and crisp apples are stuffed with buttery cinnamon-spiced oats and dark chocolate chips. This easy fruit dessert is the perfect Fall recipe.
Apple season is always a welcome one in our home! It signals the dwindling days of summer, and the crisp, cool mornings are on the horizon. This apple recipe is fall personified. A buttery pecan and oatmeal crumble is packed with cinnamon and dark chocolate and baked until perfectly tender. Next, it’s topped with caramel and if you are feeling wild a scoop of vanilla ice cream takes this dish to a while new level!
Ingredients
As always, here is quick rundown of ingredients you will need to make Baked Apples. To see the complete recipe, just keep scrolling.
- Apples: Truly, any variety will do. You can use Granny Smith, Gala, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Pink lady, Fuji, etc.
- Old Fashioned Oats: steel cut oats will not work in this recipe.
- Pecans: you can sub a different nut if you prefer, such as walnuts.
- Brown sugar and All Purpose Flour: I used King Arthur gluten-free all purpose flour.
- Mini Chocolate Chips: if you only have regular chocolate chips, that’s totally fine. The mini variety just mix in a little easier.
- Gound Cinnamon and salt: flavor makers, you can also sub apple pie spice if you wish.
- Caramel Sauce: this is an optional ingredient but it does add a lot of flavor.
TIPS
- Apple size: When picking the apples you will use, be sure to choose large ones that will bake well and core easily, leaving enough space for more yummy filling!
- Even Base: You also want them to stand up straight while cooking so you don’t lose anything, so try to to find apples that are pretty even on the bottom.
- Type of Apple: I use Honeycrisp apples, but if you prefer a tart apple, that will also work, and it will give you a nice tart, sweet flavor taste.
- Temperature: the filling in this recipe uses melted butter and chocolate chips, be sure to allow the butter to cool a but otherwise it will completely melt in your filling before you stuff the apples.
- Core: to easily core the apples you can use a small paring knife.
Baked Apples
Sweet and crisp apples are stuffed with buttery cinnamon-spiced oats and dark chocolate chips. This easy fruit dessert is the perfect Fall recipe.
Ingredients
- 4 medium apples
- ½ cup old fashioned oats
- ¼ cup chopped pecans
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips (optional)
- caramel sauce, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease an 8×8 baking dish.
- Make the filling by combining the oats, pecans, brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and salt in a mixing bowl. Add the melted butter and stir to combine. Set aside to cool before adding chocolate chips.
- Core and remove the insides of each apple with a spoon or melon baller, being careful not to damage the bottom and sides of the apples (or they won’t hold the filling). Set aside.
- Once the filling is cooled to room temperature, stir in the mini chocolate chips.
- Fill each apple with the filling and place them in the baking dish. Bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes, or until the apples are softened and the tops are golden brown.
- Remove from oven and drizzle with caramel sauce if desired
