Hasselback Apples

By Katecooks

SERVES 4 (serving size: 1 apple half and about 1/3 cup ice cream) CALORIES 260; FAT 9.2 g (sat 5.4 g, mono 1.9 g, poly 0.4 g); PROTEIN 3 g; CARB 43 g; FIBER 3 g; CHOL 23 mg; IRON 0 mg; SODIUM 222 mg; CALC 99 mg -

Ingredients

• Choose firm apples with sweet-tart flavor, such as Pink Lady or Honeycrisp; in our tests, Fuji and Granny Smith fell apart.
• 2 large firm apples, peeled, cored, and halved vertically
• Cooking spray
• 4 tablespoons brown sugar, divided
• 2 1/2 tablespoons butter, melted and divided
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, divided
• 2 tablespoons old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 1/2 cups low-fat vanilla ice cream

Details

Servings 2
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 60mins
Adapted from simmerandboil.cookinglight.com

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 400°.

2. Starting at the outermost edges, cut most (but not all) of the way through each apple half at 1/8-inch intervals. Place apple halves, cut sides down, in an 8-inch square glass or ceramic baking dish coated with cooking spray. Combine 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, and ½ teaspoon cinnamon; brush mixture evenly over apple.

3. Cover pan with foil; bake at 400° for 20 minutes. Remove foil. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes or until apples are tender. Remove pan from oven; cool 10 minutes.

4. Combine remaining 3 tablespoons sugar, remaining 1½ tablespoons butter, remaining ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, oats, flour, and salt. Carefully fan open apple halves. Spoon oat mixture evenly over apples. Bake at 400° for 10 minutes. Turn broiler to high (leave pan in oven); broil 2 minutes. Serve with ice cream.