Simple Recipes - Baked Apples Magritte Stuffed with Speculoos !

(........................... Apples Magritte)

(Speculoos !)

This simple recipe comes all the way from Belgium - home of speculoos and René Magritte - another famous Belgian

Preparation : 25 mins (inc. cooking) - if the train is on time
Cooking : 20 min
Difficulty : Easy Peasy

Ingredients (for 2 people) :

- 2 apples (type Royal Gala preferably)
- 2 or 3 speculoo biscuits (like Gingerbread men)
- 1 knob of butter
- 1 pinch cinnamon (optional)
- 2 or 3 soup spoons of brown or white sugar

Preparation :

Wash and rinse apples (don’t peel them!).
Slice off the tops of apples and keep!
Empty apples using an apple corer or a small spoon (you choose).
Pre-heat oven to 210°C (gas mark 7).
Reduce the speculoos to crumbs (using a blender, or putting them in a plastic bag and whacking them with a rolling pin).
Mix them up with the butter with your fingertips, until you obtain a rough paste.
Stuff apples with the mixture, and powder with brown sugar and cinnamon.
Place apples in an oven dish, and put the tops of the apples in the dish next to the apples (2 mm apart).
Pour 3 or 4 soup spoons of water into the bottom of the dish (where else !) (to prevent the juice from burning), cook for 20 mins.
Put tops back on the apples (after removing from oven!).
Eat, (preferably in the dining car of a train coming out of your fireplace). Remember not to talk with your mouth full and don't forget to chew, chew, chew. Whilst eating you may wish to ponder some words of wisdom from René Magritte (see below).

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

i.e.

"L'esprit aime l'inconnu. Il aime des images dont le sens est inconnu, étant donné que le sens de l'esprit lui-même est inconnu."

"Everyone is entitled to 24 hours of freedom a day."

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