Baked apple and vanilla parfait: easy to prepare
Baked apple and vanilla parfait with baked apples and brittle.
If you're looking for a winter dessert that's easy to make but still impressive, try this baked apple and vanilla parfait. Festive spiced baked apple pieces meet a creamy vanilla parfait mixture โ the perfect dessert for cozy winter evenings or a festive meal.
Parfaits can be made directly in the freezer without an ice cream maker. This means that the effort involved is manageable: prepare the ice cream mixture and freeze it.
You can even prepare the baked apple and vanilla parfait a few days in advance. Ideal for relaxed holidays and a stress-free dessert.
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What exactly is a baked apple?
Baked apples are a classic winter dessert from the oven: apples are filled with butter, cinnamon, sugar, almonds, raisins, and often a little marzipan, then baked until they are fragrant and soft. We make a variation of this to prepare the apples for our parfait and to speed up the process.
Recipe and instructions for baked apple and vanilla parfait
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Baked apple and vanilla parfait
Equipment
- Freezer
- Glasses (approx. 150โ200 ml)
Ingredients
Ingredients for vanilla parfait
- 3 Egg yolk
- 100 g Cream (is boiled with it)
- 300 g Cream (is opened and folded under)
- 75 g cane sugar *
- 1 Vanilla *
Ingredients for baked apples
- 2 medium-sized apples
- 20 g Butter
- 15 g almond leaves
- 1 EL Vanilla sugar
- Cinnamon powder *
Optional
- marzipan
- Cookies or brittle
- whipped cream or spray cream
Instructions
Preparing the ice cream mixture
- Place the egg yolks and sugar in a saucepan and whisk well.75 g cane sugar, 3 egg yolks
- Add the scraped vanilla seeds to the mixture. Use the pod for vanilla sugar, for example.1 vanilla
- Add about 1/4 of the total amount of cream and heat to approx. 70 ยฐC while stirring. Check the temperature continuously using a kitchen thermometer.100 g cream
- Now keep at 70-75 ยฐC for another 10 minutes, stirring continuously.
- Turn off the stove and remove the pot.
- Either cool the egg mixture quickly, e.g., in an ice bath or at appropriate temperatures outside, or, if you have time, simply place it in the refrigerator.
- When the mixture is lukewarm at most, whip the remaining cream until stiff using a hand mixer.300 g cream
- Stir the egg mixture once more.
- Fold the whipped cream into the egg cream. Work it in from the bottom up so that as much air as possible is retained from whipping.
Preparing the dessert glasses
- Optional: add a layer of crumbled cookies or brittle.Cookies or brittle
- Pour the parfait mixture evenly into the glasses. The glasses should be about half full.
- Place in the freezer compartment, keeping it as straight as possible. Freeze overnight or for at least 3 hours.
Preparing the baked apples
- Wash the apples, remove the cores, and cut them into slices (peel them if necessary) or cubes (see tips).2 medium-sized apples
- Place the apple pieces in a buttered baking dish. The bottom should be covered with a single layer of apples.
- Sprinkle the vanilla sugar over the apples.1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
- Spread the remaining butter evenly over the top in flakes.20 g butter
- Optional: add almond flakes.15 g almond flakes
- Depending on the thickness of the apple pieces, bake in the oven at 160 ยฐC for approx. 25 minutes.
- Allow the apples to cool slightly before serving and sprinkle them lightly with cinnamon, or store them in the refrigerator if you don't need them until the next day.Cinnamon powder
Sideboards
- If the parfait has been in the freezer overnight, place it in the refrigerator for 20โ30 minutes.
- If you prepared the apples the day before, heat them briefly in a pan.
- Place the apples on top of the glasses and decorate with whipped cream, brittle, cookie crumbs, cinnamon powder, chocolate sprinkles, marzipan, or whatever else you like.
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Tips
- Krokant can also be made very easily at home according to my recipe. Recipe.
- Leftover egg whites? How about Cheese clouds or Amarettini? At Christmas time, you can of course also coconut macaroons bake.
- If you want to prepare classic baked apples for the parfait, you can this recipe try out
- I have found that apple slices with skin can be a little difficult to eat, depending on the variety of apple. If you want to be on the safe side, peel the apples or simply cut them into cubes.
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