Baked Apples with Rye Flakes Honey and Cinnamon
"These baked apples stuffed with so many nice and healthy ingredients will make a truly healthy breakfast, a yumm dessert or awesome snack no matter whether is served hot or cold. Weve had these for breakfast a few times now, it is super easy to prepare, and provides a delicious start to any day. Here is another delicious apple and cranberries breakfast. Realistically, this apple bake can not only make a superb breakfast but also a yummy and a lot healthier dessert any day in the year, no matter the season. Of course it would peahaps suit autumn and winter best since apples are at their strongest and in full season, but also having it hot/warm will definitely make it a beautiful cold weather warmer and a soul hugger."
Notes* You may use any nuts and seeds you like. Other delicious twists you could give to this baked apple recipe can be adding raisins, dry cranberries, dry cherries orange juice, orange peel, rum essence (I love rum with apples its really good=L) rolled oats, or make the traditional crumbles with flour, sugar and butter)
* For a vegan option replace the honey with maple syrup, agave or dates syrup and the butter with any nut butter or coconut oil that is nice and solid.
* Feel free to use more butter if you wish.
* Add more sugar in the flakes mix if you wish, so if you decide to, do this at step 4. I personally do not like it overly sweet and if you feel this recipe is not reaching the level of desired sweetness you can always add more syrup or even some naughty but so nice caramel sauce when serving. Well, a scoup or owo of ice cream, a couple of spoons of creme fraiche, creme boolla boolla, some coconut whipped cream or some plain creamy Greek yoghurt are also some great ideas!
Serves4 People
Preparation Time10 min
Cooking Time40 min
Ingredients
- 4 apples
- 6 tbsp rye flakes
- 6 tbsp barley flakes
- 4 tbsp almond flour
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- 30 g butter cold
- 2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 4 tbsp sunflower seeds
- 4 tbsp honey or other syrups
- 1 pinch salt
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Preheat the oven at 190°C/ 375F and take out an ovenproof dish.
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Wash and core the apples * (see recipe notes).
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Into a bowl, add the flakes, the salt, almond flour, desiccated coconut, the seeds, cinnamon powder and the nuts. Give it all a good mix. Add the butter and crumble this with the flakes mix until it becomes uniformly mixed.
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Into a bowl, add the flakes, the salt, almond flour, desiccated coconut, the seeds, cinnamon powder and the nuts. Give it all a good mix. Add the butter and crumble this with the flakes mix until it becomes uniformly mixed.
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Fill up/stuff the apples with the mixture, drizzle 1 tbsp of honey or any syrup over each apple and place in the oven.
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Bake for 30-50 minutes depending on the apple sizes. Enjoy hot or cold