Baked Apple with Cinnamon Sauce

Ingredients

• 15 g starch
• 500 ml milk
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 50 g sugar
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 4 apples
• 50 g chopped almonds
• Lemon
• 2 tbsp cane sugar
• 30 g Butter
• juice of one orange
• Lemon balm (for garnish)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Stir starch with a little cold milk and cinnamon. Bring the remaining milk, sugar, and vanilla sugar to a boil. Whisk in the prepared starch mixture and bring to a second boil. Let the sauce cool while stirring occasionally.

2. 2.

   Rinse apples and cut off a lid. Remove the core with a melon baller and hollow out slightly. Rinse lemon, pat dry, and zest it with a zester or peel it finely. Mix almonds, cane sugar, and lemon zest, then fill the apples with this mixture.

3. 3.

   Grease a fireproof dish with butter and place the apples inside. Put the apple lids on and pour in orange juice. Top each apple with small butter pieces. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (or gas: level 3‑4, fan: 180 °C) for about 20 minutes.

4. 4.

   Serve the baked apples with the cinnamon sauce, garnished with lemon balm.