Slow Cooked: Baked Apples

This dish doesn't take too long and is a really nice desert to serve on a cold day. Pair with ice cream for a really divine finish.

Slow Cooked Baked Apples

3-6 apples

Dry fit the apples into your slow cooker. I could fit 3 large apples nicely in the bottom of my cooker. If you wrap them in foil after packing the centers, you could make 2 layers and feed a crowd. It only takes a little longer to cook.

For each apple:
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp chopped walnuts or pecans
1 tbsp dried cranberries
1 tbsp Cinnamon Pear Balsamic

Core the apples and put them in the cooker, centers facing up. Stir the filling ingredients together in a large bowl and pack into the centers. Cover and cook on low for 2 hours.

If you are wrapping them in foil and cooking a bunch, cook for around 2 1/2 hours.

Harvest Cake

You can't ever really have too many apples in the house right? It's not that I have too many, it's that they are so pretty, and smell so good that they jump in my shopping cart. I can stop buying them any time I want! I just have a bit more than I can eat right now. That's why there is cake. You can give someone a cake. Or just share one.

Baked apples are awesome. Raw apples are awesome. But apples in cake is sticky sweet SUPER-awesome! Get some ice cream to serve with this and the whole thing will be gone in ten minutes!

Harvest Cake

3 med apples, finely diced
1/4 cup diced dates
1/4 cup walnuts
1/4 cup flaked coconut
2 tbsp Persian Lime Olive Oil
2 cups hot water

Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to just under boiling and simmer for 10-15 minutes stirring often. Apples should be very soft and the water should be almost gone.

1 box Spice Cake Mix
2 tbsp Persian Lime Olive Oil
1/4 cup apple cider or milk

Bake at 350 degrees. 25-30 minutes.

This is a very sticky cake. If you wanted to make it more fluffy, you could add the eggs that the box mix calls for. But I like this to be dense. The only thing I forgot was the ice cream.

Warm this up to serve with vanilla ice cream and you will never look back!