Old-fashioned baked apples cooked over a wood fire

Grand-Mère presents her recipe for baked apples cooked over a wood fire, ideal for a melting, caramelised dessert. Mmm!

Preparation : 10 min Cooking : 30 min 6 person(s)

Ingredients

6 fairly thick slices of bread
6 apples that cook well, such as elstar or reine des reinettes
PDO butter
Cinnamon powder
Raspberry jam
Brown sugar

Preparation stages

Cut fairly thick slices of bread. Depending on the ingredients you have available, you can also use slices of brioche instead of bread (even if they’re a bit stale!) or replace the raspberry jam with fruit jelly. Choose quality ingredients, organic if possible.
Remove the core from the apples using a corer (Ø 2 cm approx.).
Garnish the hollowed-out part with raspberry jam.
Sprinkle the fruit with brown sugar and a touch of cinnamon.
Add a knob of butter to each apple for an even tastier recipe!
Place each piece of fruit on a slice of bread in an earthenware dish suitable for cooking over a wood fire.
Place the apples in the oven at around 180-200°C.
Either in an oven with no flame on low heat.
Or in an oven with a rising heat flame. In this case, place the dish close to the door.
Bake the apples with the door closed for around 30 minutes. A laser thermometer like this one allows you to easily measure the temperature in the cooking chamber.

Fabienne, who has been using a Grand-Mère oven for over 10 years, shares with us her recipe for baked apples cooked over a wood fire, ideal for a melting, caramelised dessert.

Fabienne’s baked apple recipe on video :