Sig's German Baked Apples with Filling

Name: Sig's German Baked Apples with Filling
Total time: 2700 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 4 large apples like cox orange or similar; 250 grams marzipan paste for baking; 2 handful pecan nuts, because I love them (tradition states walnuts); 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 handfull of rum soaked raisins, chopped up (optional); 4 tablespoon honey; 250 ml bought or homemade thick custard

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

We eat this traditionally on the day after Christmas Day where I come from in Germany.

Sigrun @sigrun

German, living in England

We eat this traditionally on the day after Christmas Day where I come from in Germany.

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Ingredients

45 mins

4 servings

4large apples like cox orange or similar
250 gramsmarzipan paste for baking
2 handfulpecan nuts, because I love them (tradition states walnuts)
1 teaspoonground cinnamon
1handfull of rum soaked raisins, chopped up (optional)
4 tablespoonhoney
250 mlbought or homemade thick custard

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Steps

45 mins

1

Wash the apples
2

Wash your apples, then slice of a thin thin slicemof the stem end and the top end
3

Core the apple
4

Take out a bit more of then apple to make a little dent, preheat your oven to 175°C
5

Crush the pecan nuts and mix throughly with the marzipan, the cinnamon and if using the rum soaked raisins if you are using them.
6

Fill the mass into the holes of the apples until it is perfectly closed, add half a pecan nut on top
7

Put the apples into a baking dish and drizzle with the honey
8

Cover with the apple tops and bake in oven on 175°C until the skin pops in places and the apples are cooked all the way through, this can be between 30 to 45 minutes depending on size of apple. When finished spoon some custard onto plate, place a baked apple in center and drizzle the honeybfrom he baking dish over the apple.