Name: Baked apples with pastry skirts
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 red-skinned apples (such as pink lady); 40g dried apricots, finely chopped; 40g milk chocolate, finely chopped; 2 Tbsp roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped; 60g butter; 4 sheets filo pastry; 1 Tbsp honey; Custard, to serve

Baked apples with pastry skirts

Let's not skirt around the issue, a honeybaked apple in pastry with a surprise chochazelnut filling is the stuff of dreams!

Serves 4

Prep

20M

Cook

30M

Total

50M

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Ingredients

4 red-skinned apples (such as pink lady)

40g dried apricots, finely chopped

40g milk chocolate, finely chopped

2 Tbsp roasted hazelnuts, roughly chopped

60g butter

4 sheets filo pastry

1 Tbsp honey

Custard, to serve

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Using an apple corer, remove core from base of each apple, leaving stalk intact. Combine apricot, chocolate and hazelnut in a bowl, then use to fill apple cavities.

Melt 40g of the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat. Put 1 pastry sheet on a work surface. Brush with a little of the melted butter. Fold in 3, short edge to short edge, then trim 5cm from edge to make a square. Put 1 apple in centre of pastry and lift edges around apple. Repeat with remaining apples and pastry.

Put apples on prepared tray. Combine honey and remaining butter in pan over a medium heat until butter is melted. Drizzle mixture over apples. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until apples are tender and pastry is golden. Drizzle with custard to serve.

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