Warm Amaretto Apples Food

AMARETTO APPLE CRISP WITH TOASTED ALMONDS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Add the apples to 9×13 baking dish (or a large skillet) and toss them with the brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt. Pour the amaretto over top and toss the apples.
• In a bowl, stir the oats, brown sugar, almonds, flour, cinnamon and salt. Add in the vanilla extract and amaretto, then add the butter. Use your hands to incorporate the butter until it is evenly distributed and you have a crumbly mix. Sprinkle it evenly over the apples. Bake the apples for 40 to 45 minutes, until the crisp is golden brown and the juice is bubbly underneath. Remove the dish from the oven and serve the crisp hot with ice cream.

APPLE AMARETTO SOURS

Steps:

• Fill six highball glasses with ice. Pour 2 tablespoons amaretto into each. Stir together apple cider and lemon juice until well mixed. Divide evenly among glasses. Serve each with a lemon slice and cinnamon stick.

WARM AMARETTO APPLES

Steps:

• Peel apples, core, cut into 1/2-inch dice and set aside.
• Melt butter in medium skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add apples, sprinkle with sugar and saute until tender, about 6 minutes.
• Stir in raisins.
• Add liqueur and cook until liquid reduces to glaze, about 1 minute.
• Divide between 2 dessert dishes.
• Garnish with almonds and whipped cream. Serve immediately.

AMARETTO ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form; set aside. In a small saucepan, heat milk to 175°, stirring constantly. Whisk a small amount of the hot mixture into egg yolks. Return all to the pan, whisking constantly. Cook and stir over low heat until mixture reaches at least 160° and coats the back of a metal spoon. Remove from the heat., Cool quickly by placing pan in a bowl of ice water; stir for 2 minutes. Stir in Amaretto and extract. Fold in whipped cream and toasted almonds. Pour into a 9-in. square pan; cover and freeze for 4 hours or until firm., In a microwave, melt chocolate chips; stir until smooth. Cut ice cream into squares. Drizzle each serving with chocolate; sprinkle with almonds.

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.

APPLE PANCAKES WITH AMARETTO PECAN SYRUP

Steps:

• Syrup: Melt butter, add nuts: brown lightly: remove nuts.
• Add maple syrup, cinnamon and salt to butter in saucepan.
• Add Amaretto,& apples cover simmer slowly 10 minutes.
• Remove cover simmer about 3 minutes longer.
• Remove from heat, add nuts.
• Replace cover to keep warm while making pancakes.
• Pancakes: Sift together the dry ingredients.
• Combine eggs, buttermilk and butter.
• Fold into dry ingredients.
• Do not over mix.
• Coat the apples with cinnamon and cardamom and fold into batter.
• Cook on hot lightly greased griddle and serve with warm maple syrup.

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.