Baked apples à la Didi

Ingredients for 12 servings:

• 12 apples, firm, fleshy, e.g. Jona Gold or Boskop
• 2 lemons
• 200 g marzipan paste
• 100 g sultanas
• 50 g almond sticks
• 4 cl Calvados
• 4 cl apple juice
• 60 g butter
• 4 cl maple syrup
• n. B. Vanilla sauce, homemade
• Water

Instructions

Working time approx. 45 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 15 minutes

with Calvados and maple syrup

Briefly boil the sultanas with the apple juice and Calvados and allow to cool. Squeeze the lemons and add them, along with the juice, to a bowl of water. Wash the apples, core them, and then add them to the lemon water. Vigorously knead the marzipan mixture with the sultanas, apple juice, almond slivers, and maple syrup. Shape the mixture into thin sausages and fill the apples with them. Place the apples on a baking tray and place 5g of butter on each apple. Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C (convection oven) for approximately 30 minutes. The apples are ready when the skin bursts open and there is no resistance when pierced. Mix the juice with the vanilla sauce. Arrange the baked apples with the sauce and serve.