Spiced baked apples and toffee sauce recipe
Created by The Tesco Recipes team
Take your baked apples to the next level with this gorgeous recipe full of warming whole and ground spices. The toffee sauce is so easy to make using melted toffee sweets – anyone can have a go. This is a great pud for after Sunday lunch or any night you fancy an autumnal sweet treat.
See method- Serves 4
- Takes 1 hr 10 mins
- 374 calories / serving
- Gluten-free
- Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 80g butter, plus extra for greasing
- 25g light brown soft sugar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 star anise
- 4 whole cloves
- 4 cardamom pods, lightly crushed
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 4 Cox apples, halved and cored with a melon baller or teaspoon
- 80g toffees, unwrapped
- 60ml single cream
- pinch of sea salt flakes
- vanilla ice cream, to serve (optional)
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- Energy
- 1555kJ 374.0kcal
- Fat
- 25g
- Saturates
- 15g
- Salt
- 0.6g
- Sugars
- 27g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 33.5gProtein 1.8gFibre 5.1g
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Method
- Preheat the oven to gas 5, 190°C, fan 170°C. Heat the butter and sugar in a small saucepan over a low heat to melt and dissolve. Stir in the spices; heat for 1 min or until fragrant and starting to brown and foam, then remove from the heat; stir in the lemon juice and a pinch of salt.
- Grease a baking dish large enough to snugly fit the apple halves. Arrange the apples cut-side up, then spoon over the spiced butter, making sure some goes into the hollows. Cover with foil and bake for 50 mins. Remove the foil, baste with the butter and bake for another 10-15 mins or until tender and golden.
- Meanwhile, make the sticky toffee sauce. Put the toffees and cream in a small saucepan over a low heat, stirring constantly, until the toffees have melted. Remove from the heat, stir until smooth, then add a pinch of sea salt flakes.
- Serve 2 apple halves per person with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, if you like, drizzled with the toffee sauce and the spiced butter from the baking dish.
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Tip
Make the toffee sauce in advance and store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 1 week. It will thicken when cooled and chilled. Reheat in 10 sec bursts in the microwave to loosen.
