Baked Caramel Apple Blossoms

Baked Caramel Apple Blossoms

4 apples (honeycrisp seems to work best), washed thoroughly

4 tbsp butter

6 tbsp packed brown sugar

2 tbsp flour

2 tsp cinnamon

8 caramels, unwrapped

Optional toppings: Vanilla Icecream, Caramel Sauce, Cinnamon, toffee crumbles.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Slice off top 1/4 of the apple and scoop out the core with the seeds in it (leaving most of the meat and all of the skin). Use a paring knife to cut two concentric circles into the apple (around the hole you made). Turn the apple over (bottom facing up) and make thin slices all the way through to the core from the bottom of the apple down to the top of the apple. Doing this all the way around the apple will complete the "blossom" configuration. Turn the apple back over.

Place the apples in an oven safe dish, and add two caramels to the center of each one. Warm the butter & brown sugar in the microwave for 30 seconds, stir and heat for an extra 30 seconds. Then stir in the flour and cinnamon. Divide the mixture amongst the apples in the dish.

Bake at 375 for 25-30 minutes, and move apples to individual serving dishes. Can add toppings as listed above as you like.