Ingredients

• 6 cooking apples
• For the filling:
• 200 g - almond paste/marzipan
• 50 g - raisins
• 20 g - vanilla sugar
• 40 g - chopped almonds
• 1/4 tsp - cinnamon
• 50 g - butter
• 30 ml - rum
• vanilla sauce (cold or hot) as required

How to Make Baked Apple

• Preheat the oven to 180 C.
• Mix the almond paste, vanilla sugar, cinnamon, rum, raisins and chopped almonds.
• Cut a hole (approximately 2 cm in diameter) through each apple, and remove the seeds and core.
• Add the fillings to the apples and put a little dollop of butter on top.
• Grease a ceramic baking tray with butter and place apples on it.
• Bake the apples in an oven for 20-25 minutes.
• The baking time depends on the size of the apples.
• Serve hot with cold or hot vanilla sauce drizzled on top.