Warm Baked Apples with Macaroon Soufflé and Cool Custard

Name: Warm Baked Apples with Macaroon Soufflé and Cool Custard
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons melted butter; 4 Rome or other baking apples; Juice of ½ lemon; Eggnog Custard Sauce or Low-Fat Custard Sauce; 2 large egg whites; 1½ cups (3 ounces) amaretti; Sugar, as needed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Home Desserts

By Richard Sax

Published 1994

About

Several years ago, a friend mentioned baked apples stuffed with marzipan and served with vanilla custard. I never tasted them but always remembered the idea. Using crushed amaretti (crisp Italian macaroons available in gourmet shops and Italian markets) adds a haunting flavor.

Ingredients

4 Rome or other baking apples
Juice of ½ lemon
2 tablespo

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Peel the apples neatly halfway down, leaving the skin on the bottom halves. Working with a paring knife from the stem end of each apple, carefully cut out the top ⅔ of the core, leaving the bottoms intact. Enlarge the opening i