Spiced Apple | Recipe

Spiced Baked Apple | Recipe

A dessert that delights in autumn and already hints at winter. Fragrant, warm and festive – perfect as a sweet highlight outdoors on the OFYR or shared at the table indoors.

Preparation

Prepare the OFYR with pizza oven
Light a fire with dry hardwood and heat the pizza oven evenly. To test the temperature, sprinkle a little flour onto the stone: if it turns brown quickly, the oven is ready.

Ingredients for 4 people

Apples & spiced stock

• 4 flavourful apples (e.g. Cox Orange, Boskoop, Jonagold or Elstar)
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 star anise
• 2 cardamom pods
• 6 strands of Swiss saffron
• ½ espresso spoon chopped rose petals (from the pharmacy)
• 1 tsp rose water (from the pharmacy)
• 1 organic orange, juice and zest
• 2 tsp honey
• 120 ml hot water

Filling

• 60 g ground almonds
• 45 g icing sugar
• 1 egg
• 30 g melted butter

Garnish

• 1 tsp chopped pistachios
• Spices from the baking dish
• Lightly chopped rose petals
• Almond–orange Florentines

Method

1. Wash the apples, peel the upper third and remove the cores. Score lightly in a spiral around the apples.
2. Mix the ingredients for the filling, spoon into the apples and heap a little on top.
3. Place the filled apples in a baking dish or small cast-iron pots.
4. Add the cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, saffron, orange juice and zest, honey, rose petals, rose water and hot water.
5. Place the dish in the OFYR pizza oven and bake for about 45 minutes until the apples are tender, the filling is golden and the stock has thickened slightly.
6. Arrange the apples on plates, sprinkle with pistachios and garnish with rose petals, the spices from the dish and almond–orange Florentines.
7. Pour the spiced stock around the apples. Serve with Fior di Latte ice cream if desired.

A festive dessert full of fragrance, warmth and spice – perfect for autumn and winter evenings.