Mincemeat Baked Apples Food

MINCEMEAT BAKED APPLES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Wash apples, core and place in baking pan.
• Place two tablespoons mincemeat in the cavity of each apple.
• Mix sugar and water; pour into pan.
• Bake for one hour, or until apples are tender.
• Serve with pan juice and whipped cream.

MARZIPAN & MINCEMEAT APPLES

Steps:

• Cut the apples in half widthways. Remove and discard cores, then stand the apples in a microwave-safe dish. Break the marzipan into small chunks and mix with the mincemeat and lemon zest. Spoon into the centre of the apples and pour over the lemon juice.
• Cover the dish with cling film, pierce several times and microwave on High for 4½ minutes. If you don't have a turntable and the apples are not cooking evenly, turn the dish halfway through.
• Remove the cling film and leave to stand for 5 minutes before serving.

MINCEMEAT APPLE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves. In another bowl, combine the eggs, mincemeat, applesauce, juice and butter; stir into dry ingredients just until moistened. , Pour into a greased 9-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. , For sauce, combine sugar and cornstarch in a saucepan. Stir in water until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat; stir in butter until melted. Add lemon zest and juice. Serve warm with the cake.

MICROWAVE BAKED APPLES (W/ MINCEMEAT)

Steps:

• Core apples and place in a microwave-safe tray or deep dish.
• Stuff each apple hole with a little butter or margarine.
• Then, stuff each hole with a pinch of brown sugar and a 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon.
• Cover with plastic wrap and poke a few holes to allow steam to escape.
• Microwave on high for 15 to 20 minutes.
• Baste after 10 minutes once or twice from the sauce in the bottom of the tray.
• Just before apples are done add 1/2 c.
• mincemeat to each apple and warm though (Length of time to cook depends on the number of apples to be cooked and your microwave.) Serve with thick cream.

APPLE MINCEMEAT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Place apples, butter, and lemon juice into a saucepan over medium heat, and cook, stirring often, until the apples are tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir in sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla extract. Mix in the mincemeat and walnuts until thoroughly combined, and set the pie filling aside.
• Fit a pie crust into a 9-inch pie dish; pour the filling into the crust. With a brush dipped in water, moisten the edge of the bottom crust. Top the pie with the second crust, and crimp the two crusts together with a fork to seal. Cut 4 slits into the top crust for steam vents. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk with water, and brush the yolk mixture over the top crust.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes, then reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove the pie from the oven, and cover the crust edges with strips of aluminum foil to prevent over baking. Return the pie to the oven, and bake until the crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbling, 30 to 35 more minutes.

BAKED APPLES WITH MINCEMEAT, CHERRIES, AND WALNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, cut cone-shaped piece from stem end of each apple, 2 inches wide at top and 1 inch deep. Using melon baller, core, leaving bottom intact. Turn apple on its side. Starting halfway down, make 1/4-inch-deep slit all around. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
• Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls.

MINCEMEAT STUFFED APPLES (JAMIE OLIVER)

Steps:

• preheat oven to 190 or gas mark 5, tip mincemeat into bowl add big pinch of the cinnamon, lemon zest, walnuts and port mix well.
• core apples with corer and stuff the hollow holes wirh the mincemeat mix.
• beat the egg and milk together. Lay pastry on a floured surface and roll out to thickness of 50p about 3 mm? (half thickness of pound coin) im rubbish with these kind of measurements.
• cut into eight even sized squares and lightly brush each with egg and millk wash. scatter half of demmerara sugar evenly across squares and then dust with a couple of pinches of cinnamon.
• place apple in centre of square of patry and bring pastry up around the apple pressing together so the apple is encased - do this with rest of apples.
• hold the apples with the pastry sealed on the top of the apple, facing upwards else your apple will slide off.
• transfer apples to baking tray lined with greaseproof, patry seal DOWN on the greasproof brush each with a little more egg and milk wash and scatter over last of sugar and remaining cinnamon.
• bake in hot oven fo about 40 mins , the patry should be golden and crispyand apples cooked through servce with the jersey cream, leftovers can be eaten cold the next day. sounds goody yum tums.