This time of year is my absolute favorite! The turning leaves, the cooler air, the soups and stews and even the occasional fire in the fireplace.
It’s fall, and along with lots of other autumn produce, the apples are in abundance.
Baked apples are a wonderful dessert on a cold evening. Warm and fragrant, they fill your house with fabulous aromas as they bake, and comfort your tummy with incredibly nutritious sweetness.
Here’s a new twist on this old favorite.
( Makes 1 serving )
Ingredients
1 apple
1 tbsp. agave (or honey)
1/2 tsp. pumpkin spice
Dried cranberries – fruit juice sweetened
Walnuts
Directions:
Step 1 – Choose a nice, fresh, delicious apple.
Step 2 – Remove the core, and place apple in a baking dish.
Step 3 – Fill the core with fruit juice sweetened cranberries.
Step 4 – Pour agave down the center, over the cranberries.
Step 5 – Sprinkle 1/2 tsp. Pumpkin Spice over your apple.
Step 6 – Place your apple in the oven, and bake until you can easily puncture it with a knife. It should be quite soft. This will take about 20 minutes. Remove from oven, and allow to cool.
Step 7 – Cut open and top with a small handful of walnuts.
Nutritional Content
1 serving – 1 baked apple
Calories: 419
Total Fat: 20 gm
Saturated Fats: 1 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 gm
Sodium: 8 mg
Carbohydrates: 63 gm
Dietary fiber: 9 gm
Sugars: 43 gm
Protein: 8 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 27
Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.
Munchkin Helpers:
If you have little ones, here’s how they can help. (With close supervision, of course)
- Have them place the apple in the baking dish and fill with all the ingredients. Young children might need help with the agave.
Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).
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