Baked Apples

Serves 4

Baked apples with sultanas and brown sugar is a perfect dessert for autumn, especially for anyone with an apple tree.

This hot dessert is a wonderful treat to warm up with on a cold windy day. The brown sugar caramelizes the apples, which become sweet and sticky, while the sultanas plump up, soaking in all the juices and flavours from the apples and cinnamon.

Baked apples are one of the simplest desserts to make, perfect if you want an easy recipe to serve up at a dinner party or family meal. Baked apples are very comforting and full of warm flavours, a perfect end to a lovely meal.

Ingredients

• 4 apples
• 100g soft brown sugar
• 2 tsp cinnamon 
• 80g sultanas
• 2 tbsp butter

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 190C.
2. Remove the apple cores and make a cut into just the apple skin, around the centre of the apple.
3. Mix the sugar, raisins and cinnamon together.
4. With a bit of butter grease a baking dish and place the apples upright in the dish.
5. Stuff the apples with the mixture and place a little butter on the top of the stuffing.
6. Then add a little water to cover the bottom of the dish.
7. Bake for 45 minutes.