Two Easy Vegan Desserts with Fresh Apples
Craving a dessert on a chilly night? Here are two easy vegan desserts where fresh apples shine. These are a must try classic recipes when you need guaranteed delicious desserts without putting in a ton of effort. Apple is truly a baker's best friend due to its sweet flavor and firm texture. Raw, baked or stewed, they taste delicious in all forms
Ingredients
Ingredients for Baked Apple
- 2 Nos Apples. You can use any good quality apple suitable for baking like Granny Smith, honey crisp or the red delicious variety.
- 2 tbsp Crushed Walnuts. Or use any nut of your choice like almonds, pecans, cashew nuts.
- 2 tbsp Coconut Sugar. You can use jaggery or brown sugar too.
- 1 tbsp Ghee or Butter. For vegan option use cold pressed coconut oil or Vegan butter.
- 4 tsp Cinnamon Powder.
- 1/8 cup Water.
Ingredients for Apple Crumble
- 1 No Apple. You can use any good quality apple suitable for baking like Granny Smith, honey crisp or the red delicious variety.
- 1 tsp Lime juice
- ½ tsp Cinnamon Powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp Ghee or cold pressed coconut Oil. You can use butter or vegan butter as well.
- 2 tbsp Date Palm jaggery . You can use regular jaggery or brown sugar too. But Date palm jaggery has a very distinct taste and is available in India during winter months. So if possible, try using it.
Ingredients for Crumbs
- ½ cup Oat flour
- ¼ cup Date Palm jaggery. You can use regular jaggery or brown sugar too. But Date palm jaggery has a very distinct taste and is available in India during winter months. So if possible, try using it.
- ¼ tsp Cinnamon powder
- 1 tbsp Ghee or cold pressed coconut oil. You can use Butter or Vegan butter as well.
Ingredients to serve
- 2 scoops Vanilla Ice cream or custard or cream or chilled yogurt.
Instructions
Baked Apple
- Wash and dry 2 apples. Then using a corer or paring knife, core the apples.
- Cored apples.
- In a small bowl, add coconut sugar and ghee.
- Mix it well using spoon or hand
- Add cinnamon powder
- Add crushed walnuts
- mix everything together
- Fill this stuffing inside the cavity of apples. Press with fingers on both sides of the cavity so that the filling does not fall out.
- Arrange apples on a small baking tray.
- Put 1/8cup or about 2 tbsp of water in the base of the pan.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F/180°C for 45 minutes or till apples turn tender.
- Take out. Slice and serve warm with icecream or custard or yogurt
- Use juice from base to glaze apples.
Apple Crumble
- Peel an apple.
- Cut into small pieces.
- Grease a small baking pan. You can use a saucer or bowl too.
- Arrange apple slices on it.
- Add cinnamon powder.
- Add Lime Juice.
- Add Salt
- Add a tsp of ghee or butter or coconut oil.
- Add date palm jaggery.
- Mix everything together and keep aside.
- In a separate bowl, take date palm jaggery.
- Add oat flour to it.
- Add cinnamon powder.
- Add 1 tbsp of ghee or coconut oil.
- Mix everything till well incorporated.
- you can make the crumb ahead and keep it refrigerated till ready to use.
- Layer this prepared crumb on top of apple.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F/180°C for 45 minutes.
- Take out and serve. Warm crumble is served with chilled yogurt, custard, cream or icecream.
