A traditional British pud – hot and made in minutes instead of hours. Serve these baked apples with traditional custard, ice cream or for a real treat some clotted cream. Make sure you score the apple around the centre, prior to cooking, to allow the steam to escape during cooking – then they won’t explode in the oven.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 4 medium-sized Bramley cooking apples
- 80g marzipan
- 100g total weight of a mixture of chopped dried fruit and chopped nuts – this could be a mixture of raisins, sultanas, almonds, walnuts, morello cherries, and/or apricots
- 4 tsps honey
For the custard:
- 1 tbsp custard powder
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 300ml milk
Cooking Instructions for 1100 watt oven
- Core the apples, making sure to remove all the ‘pips’ from the centre of each apple. Score around the centre of each apple.
- Set apples into a medium sized shallow, microwaveable dish. Plug the base of each apple with a piece of marzipan, then fill each cavity with a mixture of the dried fruit and nuts. Plug the top with the remaining marzipan. Dribble a teaspoon of honey over the top of each apple. Cover with a well-fitting lid or cling wrap and cook for 8 minutes on HIGH power in a 1100 watt oven, turning dish after 4 minutes until when pierced with a knife, the apples feel soft and cooked through.
- Serve hot with custard, ice cream or clotted cream.
To make the custard:
- Mix the custard power and sugar together in a 1 litre microwaveable jug with a little of the milk, until they form a paste. Gently stir in the remaining milk. Cook for 3 minutes on HIGH power in an 1100 watt oven, stirring well after each minute, until the custard comes to the boil and thickens. Serve hot.
1500 watt oven
- Cook the apples for 8 minutes on MEDIUM power (70% – 1050 watts).
- Cook the custard for 2 ½ minutes on MEDIUM power (70% – 1050 watts) ensuring you stir it thoroughly after every one minute to prevent the custard from boiling over before it is thoroughly cooked.
1850 watt oven
- Cook the apples for 8 minutes on LOW power (50% – 925 watts).
- Cook the custard for 2 – 2 ½ minutes on LOW power (70% – 1050 watts), ensuring you stir it thoroughly after every one minute to prevent it from boiling over.
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