Stuffed Baked Apples (Mele Alla Noce Di Cooco)
Recipe: #18303
March 31, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Apple, Italian, Fathers Day, Mothers Day Oven Bake, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Vegetarian, Alcohol, Kosher Dairy, more
"I made this several years ago, and these apples made for a pretty and tasty dessert. This is a very old recipe, which I forgot I had, I will be making this again now I have found it. When I made this years ago, I served with a side of home made apple ice-cream, which really went down well."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (237.2 g)
- Calories 421.4
- Total Fat - 12.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.8 g
- Cholesterol - 23.3 mg
- Sodium - 78.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 73 g
- Dietary Fiber - 6.9 g
- Sugars - 26.5 g
- Protein - 7 g
- Calcium - 428.7 mg
- Iron - 28.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 8.3 mg
- Thiamin - 2.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Firstly prepare the stuffing place the mashed bananas in a bowl with the sugar and then crumble in 4 of the toast biscuits. Add the honey and rum and mix really well.
Step 2
Peel the apples and remove the cores, leaving the apple whole. Brush the inside apples with just a little of the butter and fill them with the stuffing.
Step 3
Crumble the rest of the toasts and mix with the coconut. Brush the outside of the apples with a little more butter and cover/coat or roll the apples in the toast/coconut mixture.
Step 4
Brush a deep baking pan with the remainder of the butter. Put in the apples, close together. Pour in 2-3 tablespoons of water with the wine and put in a moderate oven 180c for 30 minutes, or until the apples are cooked.
Step 5
Tope each apple with a teaspoon of jam/jelly and cool just slightly before serving.
Step 6
Serve with ice-cream if desired.
Tips
No special items needed.