Great Dessert = Baked Apple

Chezzie84

Top, tail and core 1 apple and place on a square of foil.
In a bowl mix 7g dried apricots, 6g cranberries and 21g raisins with a pinch of cinnamon.
Put the fruit in the hole and sprinkle any excess in the foil (depends on the size of the hole to how much excess you have).
Wrap tinfoil around apple and bake for around 30 minutes on 180 degrees.
Mine was around 90 cals.

Momjogger

Yum. Also try cutting up a whole apple and placing in water. Boil until soft. Add 1/4 cup oatmeal, cinnamon, and 1/2 T brown sugar. Like an apple crisp, but lower cal and healthy.

snowflake930

Sounds good. You could probably use any dried fruit.

Will definitely make this.

Chezzie84

Yeah. Any dried fruit would work well.
Apple crisps sound good too

eldamiano

No way as nice a baked chocolate brownie though..........

icrushit

Baked apples are lovely, I love dried cranberries, a little dark brown sugar, and a little butter in mine. So nice, especially in colder weather

By the way, I think your 90 calories are way off, as there's most likely more than 90 calories just in the dried fruit (nearer to probably 120/ 130 calories for 40g dried fruit), and the apple itself will be between 70- 100 calories depending on the size of the apple (70 calories for a smaller mid-sized apple, 100 for an average one).

icrushit

Oh, a good tip for baked apples I've found, is only to partially core the apple. ie use a corer and push it about 3/4's way down (not fully), pull out the corer, and then use a teaspoon to remove most of the core. This way you won't have a hole in the bottom for any of your filling to seep out from

Francl27

iloseityes wrote: »

Baked apples are lovely, I love dried cranberries, a little dark brown sugar, and a little butter in mine. So nice, especially in colder weather

By the way, I think your 90 calories are way off, as there's most likely more than 90 calories just in the dried fruit (nearer to probably 120/ 130 calories for 40g dried fruit), and the apple itself will be between 70- 100 calories depending on the size of the apple (70 calories for a smaller mid-sized apple, 100 for an average one).

I agree, although I've never seen a 100 calories apple. Even the bigger ones I've had were 83 calories or something (using USDA entries, and weighing only what I eat, starting to think we're supposed to weigh the whole thing).

Kate7294

This is the one I've been using though the caramels don't melt that well so been leaving them out. Thinking chopped pecans would be good. Yum

Need2Exerc1se

I love baked apples, but also agree with a post above that the calories seem too low even for a small apple, unless the whole thing is more than one serving. Just adding up the grams of dried fruit calculates over 100 calories.

Chezzie84

It was 90 calories because I weighed everything out and used the calories from the packets.
Don't forget the apple is cored so a lot of weight is lost and the dried fruit is minimal.

SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage

Yummy. Thanks for sharing

MichelleLea122

You should definitely recheck that calorie count, because according to my calculations and the weights you gave

17 cals for dried apricots (7g)
18 cals for dried cranberries (4g)
63 cals for raisins (21g)

That's 98 cals, not including the apple.

Momjogger

iloseityes wrote: »

Baked apples are lovely, I love dried cranberries, a little dark brown sugar, and a little butter in mine. So nice, especially in colder weather

By the way, I think your 90 calories are way off, as there's most likely more than 90 calories just in the dried fruit (nearer to probably 120/ 130 calories for 40g dried fruit), and the apple itself will be between 70- 100 calories depending on the size of the apple (70 calories for a smaller mid-sized apple, 100 for an average one).

I am so gonna try the apple with a little butter and brown sugar. Maybe with dried cherries. I'm also thinking about the oatmeal with blueberries. Love fall.

mbbseb

Sounds good, whoever makes this will just have to figure their own cal count.

Need2Exerc1se

Chezzie84 wrote: »

It was 90 calories because I weighed everything out and used the calories from the packets.
Don't forget the apple is cored so a lot of weight is lost and the dried fruit is minimal.

Your recipe lists 34 g of dried fruit. Carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram. 34 x 4 = 136. Even subracting a few calories for fiber, 90 calories for the whole does not add up.

Momjogger

The blueberry version was delish! I highly recommend it.