Baked Apples

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp butter
• 4 Boskop apples
• 40 g ground hazelnuts
• 1 tbsp apple jelly
• 1 tbsp whipping cream
• 1 tbsp honey
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon powder
• 250 ml milk
• 250 ml Whipping Cream
• 1 Vanilla bean
• 5 egg yolks
• 100 g sugar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Wash, dry, and core the apples. Place them in a greased baking dish.

2. 2.

   Mix nuts with cream, apple jelly, honey, and cinnamon; fill the apples. Top with butter shards and bake at 180°C (medium) for about 30 minutes until soft. Serve with vanilla sauce.

3. 3.

   Whisk milk and cream with the vanilla bean and scraped seeds; bring to a boil.

4. 4.

   Beat egg yolks with sugar until creamy. Stir the hot cream-milk into the yolk mixture, pour everything back into the pot, and whisk over low heat until thickened into a sauce—do not let it boil.

5. 5.

   Strain the vanilla sauce through a sieve, cool slightly, dust the surface lightly with sugar to prevent skin formation.