Baked Apples with Brown Butter Whiskey Sauce
Learn how to bake apples with this easy recipe! You can top them with a quick brown butter whiskey sauce and vanilla ice cream for an easy fall dessert.
Servings: 8
Calories: 372kcal
Ingredients
Baked apples
- 4 Granny Smith apples sliced in half
- 30 grams dark brown sugar
- 115 grams unsalted butter
Brown butter whiskey sauce
- 87 grams unsalted butter
- 200 grams dark brown sugar
- 30 mL light corn syrup optional, but best to use to avoid the sauce crystallizing as it cools
- 60 mL water
- 2 large egg yolk(s) lightly beaten
- 30 mL whiskey I used Jack Daniel’s
- Vanilla bean ice cream
Instructions
Baked apples
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F (175 °C) and line a rimmed baking pan with parchment. Cut your apples in half. If the halves don't sit flat with their cut side up, you can trim a thin slice off the rounded side of each apple half so that they can sit straight/flat in the pan.
- Top each half with a tablespoon of butter and a teaspoon of brown sugar.
- Roast the apples for about 40 minutes or until they are tender.
Brown butter whiskey sauce
- While the apples are roasting, prepare the brown butter whiskey sauce.
- Melt and brown the butter in a saucepan on medium heat until you can smell the nuttiness and the milk solids turn to a deep golden brown. Swirl the pan often so that the milk solids don't burn on the bottom.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat, then stir in the cup of dark brown sugar, the corn syrup, and the water (carefully because the pan is hot!). Whisk the mixture over medium heat and bring it just to a boil, making sure that all the sugar is dissolved.
- Pour half the hot sugar mixture over the yolks and whisk to temper the eggs, then add them to the saucepan. Bring the sauce to a boil and boil for 1 minute on medium heat, whisking constantly.
- Strain the sauce into a heatproof container then stir in the whiskey.
- When the apples are done baking, serve each half drizzled generously with brown butter whiskey sauce and with a scoop of ice cream.
Nutrition
Calories: 372kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 103mg | Sodium: 17mg | Potassium: 147mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 745IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 1mg
