Paleo Stuffed Apples
You don’t have to be on a Paleo diet to love these honey sweetened stuffed apples. Packed with nuts and cinnamon, they are a light and tasty dessert that are like an apple pie filling that feels like you're eating a healthy snack.
Ingredients
- 6 large apples use something with firm flesh so they don’t turn to mush as you bake them
- 2 to 3 tbsp honey depending on how sweet your apples are
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans finely chopped and lightly toasted
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup finely chopped prunes or other dried fruit
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon
- Pinch sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Once the core is removed, use the melon baller to scrape out the flesh of the apple, so that the wall of the apple is only about a 1/4-inch thick. Don’t go too thin or the apples won’t hold their shape when baked. Save the apple flesh to use as part of the stuffing.
- Chop up the apple flesh and mix it with 2 tablespoons honey, half the nuts, raisins, prunes, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and salt.
- Stuff the apple with the filling and place in a baking dish. Really pack it in.
- Mix the remaining nuts, honey and cinnamon together with a pinch of salt.
- Top the apples with the nut mixture.
- Bake until the apples are very tender, about 40 to 45 minutes. If the nuts are starting to brown too quickly, very loosely tent with foil, but be careful not to over cook the apples under the tent or they will fall apart. They’ll still be delicious, but not as pretty.