Apple is the most popular fruit in the whole world. You can talk endlessly about its benefits and merits, but here this information will be superfluous. It is better to tell about the desserts that can be prepared and put on the festive table. From apples so much can be done!
Features of cooking apple desserts
- If the fruit will not be subjected to heat treatment, then you need to choose the most juicy and fresh fruit. If the apples are baked, stewed or fried, even slightly withered specimens will do.
- The taste of an apple directly depends on its variety, strongly influences the result.
- If apples are sour, then you need to add more sugar. When using sweet fruits, citric acid is added.
- Apples are perfectly combined with various spices from cinnamon and vanilla to ginger and cloves. They can also be "friends" with all other fruits and berries.
Baked Apple “Christmas”
In fact, this dessert can be prepared not only for the Christmas table. Sweet and fragrant apple is great for other holidays, everyday snack or breakfast.
Ingredients
- 5 apples;
- 1 tsp. cinnamon;
- 2 tsp. almond petals;
- 2 spoons of honey;
- 1 tsp. grated zest;
- 2 tablespoons of walnuts.
Cooking
- Apples wash, cut a hole. We work with a sharp knife, make a barrel, do not pierce the opposite side. It is advisable to take apples of the same size and not more than 150 grams.
- Chop nuts. Grind lemon or orange zest. Mix, fill with honey and cinnamon, pound. If the honey is thick, then just melt it for better distribution.
- Spoon the honey mass over the apples, no need to fill it to the top. Install each fruit in a cake pan or make a foil stand.
- We send the dessert to the oven, bake until the apple is soft. Time depends on the variety and juiciness, the temperature is about 180. Cool the ready apples, sprinkle with almond petals, send to the holiday table.
It is possible to sprinkle ready-made apples not with almond petals, but to decorate them with “snow” from coke chips. Get a spectacular winter dessert.
Apple Jelly with Almonds
Another variation of a tasty and light dessert, which is also very healthy. Use the most common gelatin, which is sold in grocery stores. The variety of apples does not matter either.
Ingredients
- 6 apples;
- 140 g of sugar;
- 1 tbsp. l gelatin;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- 50 g almonds;
- a little zest.
Method of preparation
- Add 4 spoons of water to gelatin, set aside.
- Slice apples, add water and fill the zest, boil until soft. Once the pieces are softened, strain the broth, carefully squeeze the thick.
- Melt the gelatin, mix with apple broth. Add chopped almonds, pour dessert into small molds, put in the fridge for four hours.
Jelly can be served in forms or flipped over on a saucer. To make the dessert easily behind the walls, you need to put the pot for a few seconds in hot water.
Spectacular dessert from apples in chocolate
For a spectacular dessert, we take apples of a small size and neat shape, additionally need sticks. Chocolate to your taste, but it should melt. You can use for this dessert and runet, the number of small apples will have to increase.
Ingredients
- 4 apples;
- 150 g of chocolate;
- 4 sticks;
- nuts or pistachios.
Method of preparation
- For such a dessert, apples need to be peeled. Gently remove the peel with a thin layer, try to keep a round shape.
- We send chocolate or confectionery glaze to melt in a water bath. Cut the nuts into pieces, if necessary, can be dried and even fry. This dessert is delicious with pistachios.
- Prick an apple onto a stick, dip it into chocolate, and pour it with a spoon on all sides. Take out, shake off excess glaze.
- Dip a chocolate apple in the nuts, do it right away, let it stick. We shift on paper, cool for solidification literally a quarter of an hour.
It is possible to use not nuts for decoration, but a multi-colored dragee, it will turn out incredibly beautiful. The apples decorated with a different way effectively look. Sometimes they paint on chocolate with icing, but the coating should harden.
Apple mousse
This recipe is dedicated to lovers of tender and refreshing desserts. At the exit we get a very fragrant mousse. It can be served at the table in vases, glasses or glasses.
Ingredients
- 750 g apples;
- 5 spoons of semolina;
- 500 ml of water;
- some lemon juice;
- 5-6 tablespoons of sugar.
Method of preparation
- Peel the apples, remove the stubs. After that we weigh, we should have 650 grams. If there is a lot of waste, more than 100 grams, then we take another apple, add to the quantity we need.
- Cut the apples, send them to the pan. We introduce sugar and water. To taste lemon juice. Put on the stove and cook until the apples are soft.
- Remove the apples, chop the blender, add the semolina in a spoon.
- The mixture, brought to homogeneity, is sent to the stove, boil until we get the semolina. Cool to a warm state.
- Put the saucepan with apple porridge in a basin with cold water, put the mixer down and beat until fluffy. Give the mousse to stand for a couple of hours in the fridge, then serve to the table.
The same mousse can be used instead of cream. An excellent solution for people who do not tolerate dairy products.
Apple roses for dessert
Smart-looking, but easy-to-prepare apple dessert with baking. In addition to fruit, you will need puff pastry.
Ingredients
- 2 apples;
- 2 spoons of jam or jam;
- 150 g of dough;
- 1 tsp. lemon juice.
Method of preparation
- Cut the apples into thin slices in the form of a semicircle. We put it in boiling water with lemon juice, let it boil and pour it into a colander.
- Roll out the dough thinly and cut into ribbons, the width is equal to the height of the apple lobule. The length is not limited by anything, but it is better to prepare small roses.
- Lubricate the dough with jam or jam, top it with an overlap of apple slices so that they stick out of the dough. We twist the roll is not tight, give the shape of a rose.
- We shift the roses to the cupcake molds. We bake at 200 degrees to ruddy color dough. Make sure the apples are not burnt.
Ready roses can be sprinkled with powdered sugar mixed with vanilla or cinnamon. Sometimes they are smeared with syrup for glitter and even “planted” dewdrops of confectionary pearls. Gorgeous!
