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, photo by Emma Shevtzoff
, nutritional review by Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE
in Recipes, Dessert Low carb baked apples
Smells like apple pie... tastes like a dream. This easy take on low carb baked apples comes together in no-time. Don't forget the luscious finishing touch—a dollop of whipped cream.
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servingservings
Ingredients
- 2 oz. 55 g butter, at room temperature
- 1 oz. 28 g pecans or walnuts
- 4 tbsp 4 tbsp coconut flour
- ½ tsp ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 (5¼ oz.) 1 (150 g) tart/sour appletart/sour apples
For serving
- ¾ cup 180 ml heavy whipping cream
- ½ tsp ½ tsp vanilla extract
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Making low carb simple
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Mix soft butter, chopped nuts, coconut flour, cinnamon and vanilla into a crumbly dough.
- Rinse the apple, but don't peel it or remove the seeds. Cut off both ends and cut the middle part in four slices.
- Place the slices in a greased baking dish and add dough crumbs on top. Bake for 15 minutes or more or until the crumbs turn golden brown.
- Add heavy whipping cream and vanilla to a medium-sized bowl and whip until soft peaks form.
- Let the apples cool for a couple of minutes and serve with a dollop of whipped cream.
Tip!
These baked apples can be served with whipped cream, full-fat crème fraiche, mascarpone, or a slice of cheddar. If you're allergic to nuts you can simply exclude them or substitute sunflower or sesame seeds to keep the crunch.
Are you supposed to eat those too?
I think apple seeds are not meant to be eaten - In the 70s, I vaguely remember reading a 1950s Nancy Drew story about how she poisoned the young male friend whom she had a crush on by serving him her homemade fruit salad or something at various picnics and it had apple seeds in it.
I'll check Wikipedia on it: "Apple seeds contain small amounts of amygdalin, a sugar and cyanide compound known as a cyanogenic glycoside. Ingesting small amounts of apple seeds causes no ill effects, but consumption of extremely large doses can cause adverse reactions. It may take several hours before the poison takes effect, as cyanogenic glycosides must be hydrolyzed before the cyanide ion is released."
For years I have made a grain-less version of "apple crumble without the crumble" by using almost all of the ingredients that this recipe calls for (though without the coconut flour that is called for above, which probably makes the above recipe quite dry.)
I use a sweeter apple, like Pink Lady or Fuji, and I don't add sugar or other sweetener.
I cut one apple into a 1/2 inch dice (after discarding both the core AND the seeds!) and put in a small baking dish, squirt some lemon juice on that, add some vanilla extract, cinnamon, pecan chips, and room-temperature or melted butter, mix everything together, cover the dish with its glass lid (or aluminum foil), and bake at 350, stirring once or twice, for half an hour or however long it takes for the apple pieces to cook through.
It's really tasty with a dollop of whole-milk greek yogurt.
could you also make a batter from egg that resembles the "classic" baked-banana"? Like e.g. egg yolk and coconut flakes? Has anybody tried something like this?