Recipe: Healthy Baked Apples

These baked apples are perfect for a healthy snack for one or stylish dessert for company. Pretty enough for a crowd, this baked apple recipe is filled to the brim with toasted oats, pecan pieces, dark chocolate, sliced pear, and honey goat cheese.

It’s a gluten-free, easy-to-make, low-carb dessert that tastes like pure decadence.

Once you assemble the apples, toss them in the oven until they’re toasty warm and the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Ingredients for Baked Apples

Here are the ingredients for our delicious healthy baked apples:

• apples
• butter
• old fashioned oats
• pecans
• dark chocolate
• honey
• cinnamon
• goat cheese

However, this is a very versatile recipe and can be easily customized. Try some additional spices like cloves, pumpkin pie spice or cardamom. Use maple syrup instead of honey. We’ve even added some chopped pear to the mixture with delicious results.

To make this recipe dairy-free, simply omit the goat cheese.

What Kind of Apples Should I Use?

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The best apple to use for this baked apple dessert is a firm and sweet apple. We like using Fuji, Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp, or Granny Smith. It’s also important that they have a solid base so they can stand up on their own once you place them in your pan. It’s also helpful to have the apples be approximately the same size so they cook evenly.

How To Make Healthy Baked Apples

To make these baked apples, you’ll start by cutting the tops of the apples off just as far as needed to remove the stem and create a flat top. Then you take a pairing knife or an apple corer and remove the center of the apple to discard the seeds. If you’re using an apple corer, make sure you don’t go all the way through but leave the base of the apple intact.

Depending on how much filling to apple ratio you want, you can remove a small amount which only includes the seeds or you can scrape away a larger amount of flesh to allow for more filling in each apple.

Next, you’ll create your filling first by toasting some old-fashioned oats and then mixing all of your ingredients together. Fill the apples with your mixture, bake in the oven and eat!

Other Healthy Fruit Dessert Recipes

• Grilled Peaches and Pineapple
• Banana “Nice” Cream 4 Ways
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Banana Coconut Pudding