Amaretto Baked Apples Food

AMARETTO APPLE CRISP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375ºF.
• Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife. Combine flour and both sugars in a bowl; cut in butter with a pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture is crumbly.
• Add almonds, toss well.
• Combine apple, nutmeg, cinnamon and Amaretto in a bowl; toss well.
• Spoon apple mixture in an 8" square baking dish or 1-1/2 quart casserole.
• Sprinkle with crumb mixture.
• Bake at 375ºF for 45 minutes or until golden brown.

AMARETTO BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• 1 Place a rack in the center of the oven. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Butter a baking dish just large enough to hold the apples standing upright. 2 Remove the apple cores and peel the apples about two-thirds of the way down from the stem end. 3 Place the amaretti cookies in a plastic bag and crush them gently with a heavy object, such as a rolling pin. In a medium bowl, blend the crumbs with the sugar and butter. 4 Stuff a little of the mixture into the center of each apple. Spoon the amaretto over the apples. Pour 1 cup water around the apples. 5 Bake 45 minutes or until the apples are tender when pierced with a knife. Serve warm or at room temperature. From "1,000 Italian Recipes." Copyright 2004 by Michele Scicolone. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

AMARETTO APPLE TART

Steps:

• Prepare pastry: in medium bowl, mix flour and sugar.
• Cut in chilled butter until crumbly.
• Beat egg yolk and mix with vanilla.
• With fork, stir egg mxture lightly into flour mixture.
• Press dough together into a smooth ball, then flatten.
• Press pastry into bottom and up the sides of an 11 inch removable bottom tart pan.
• Peel apples and cut in halves lengthwise; remove cores.
• Cut each half in thin lengthwise slices, keeping slices together in apple shape.
• Arrange apples in prepared pastry shell, round sides up.
• After placing apple rounds in pastry shell, fan out slightly to cover most of pastry.
• In a medium bowl, beat eggs with amaretto, sugar and salt until well mixed.
• Blend in cream and pour evenly over apples.
• Sprinkle with almonds.
• Bake in preheated 450* oven for 15 minutes, reduce heat to 350* and bake until filling is set and apples are tender- 50 minutes to an hour.
• Remove and place on wire rack to cool.
• Stir preserves in small saucepan on low heat until melted and bubbly.
• Strain to remove any solid pieces of fruit and brush glaze over pastry tart.
• Remove pan sides and serve tart at room temperature.

AMARETTO APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease 4 mini-loaf pans or 1 regular-sized loaf pan.
• With an electric mixer, beat butter until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs and vanilla, continuing to beat until well mixed.
• In a separate bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon, mix well.
• Add half of the flour mixture to the butter/egg mixture, mix well.
• Add milk and Amaretto to the mixture, then the rest of the flour mixture, beating well after each addition.
• Fold in chopped apple, mixing gently but thoroughly.
• Pour mixture into loaf pan, or divide among mini-loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes (25-30 for mini-loaf pans) until toothpick stuck in the middle comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan and let cool on a rack.