Great comfort food. Best to make fresh but you can prepare the apples well ahead of time and just refrigerate until ready to bake. They’ll brown up a little bit from exposure to air but that won’t matter once they’re cooked, all bubbly, brown and delicious.
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 25 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Cook: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 Golden Delicious apples
- 2 to 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons light brown sugar
- Ground cinnamon, for sprinkling
- Creamy Custard Sauce, recipe follows
- 1/2 pint light vanilla ice cream, melted (recommended: Ben and Jerry’s)
- 2 egg yolks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Wash and dry apples. Cut the apples in half and remove the core but leave any stems intact. Place apples in baking dish. Divide butter among each core cavity. Top each apple half with a tablespoon of sugar and dash with cinnamon.
- Bake apples until the flesh is tender and they’re bubbly and perfect looking, about 30 minutes. Serve with Creamy Custard Sauce.
- Heat the melted ice cream in a small saucepan over low heat until hot. Meanwhile, put the yolks in a mixing bowl and whisk until smooth. While whisking, slowly drizzle about 1 or 2 tablespoons hot melted ice cream into the yolks until blended. While whisking constantly, slowly add the rest of the hot liquid to the yolk mixture. Pour the mixture back into the saucepan and return to low heat.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 238 |
| Total Fat | 13 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Carbohydrates | 29 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Sugar | 24 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Cholesterol | 107 mg |
| Sodium | 35 mg |
Reviews
So easy!
Who knew that 4 ingredients could taste so good?!?! This was the easiest recipe and one that I will continue to make for my husband & I for a nice snack and the best way I can find to get him to eat apples! I didn’t try it with the custard sauce…just really good vanilla ice cream. But it sort of became custard when it melted over the apples. Great recipe!
I’m cooking it now but it was easy and I’m not a gourmet cook.
Delicious, fast, and easy to prepare.
Apples are very easy to make and relatively healthy: each serving is half an apple, some butter, some brown sugar, and a little cinnamon.
I didn’t have any ice cream to make the cream sauce with, so I improvised and used non-fat plain yogurt, two egg yolks, vanilla, and brown sugar, brought it to a simmer while whisking, and then used as a custard topping. It was great! And way healthier.
But seriously. It’s dessert. Don’t fool yourself. If you’re on a diet, substitute with water.
I made this on the basis of a 5 star review and now i have to give it one star to help bring this rating down and help avert people like myself getting duped. This recipe is not healthy, not to mention boring and kind of disgusting when you come down to it [melt a pint of ben and jerrys with some raw egg??!]. The end result is okkaaayy, but certainly not worth 5 stars.
my kids loved them…and they are so easy to make
I made this tonight for dinner as a desert it was fantastic matter a fact unbelievable. The flavors that danced around in my mouth made me hum as I was eating eat. I wish I had more stomachs so I could eat another one. I just recently discovered Dave; in the future I will look at his recipes on the internet first. I made one of his pork tenderloin recipes for dinner and it was wonderful.
The sauce was delicious, but the dish as a whole was not sweet enough.
I made this for a dinner party and everyone loved it! I prepared everything ahead of time and just popped it in oven. Fantastic!