2 Delicious French Apple Dessert Recipes

2 Delicious French Apple Dessert Recipes

If you’re wanting to impress guests with something really delicious and French inspired, then this dessert will astound them because this delicious baked recipe featuring apples is one perfect ending for a great dinner.

This dessert is going to turn out so good that you’ll want to make this over and over again plus it’s going to create heavenly smells inside your kitchen and house that are really great and homey. Your guests are going to love you for it.

“La Bonne Femme”

A good portion of the fun in making this really great French inspired dessert is to have that little bit of knowledge on how it got its peculiar name. Literally translated, the name of this recipe is “Good Woman Apples”.

When “bonne femme” is attached to any recipe, what it means is that it tells you that the dish in question is a really simple one and doesn’t need much effort for its preparation. But when you call anyone a “bonne femme” in any place in France, it’s not going to sound that good. It might be used to indicate a person who is quite feeble and old or just someone who has very common manners.

Actually the origins of this term from its association together with dessert and with food must have come from Latin term “bona fama” which means something that has a good and nice reputation. To correlate it with this recipe’s name, then this dish must really be great for it to have that great reputation.

“Pommes Bonne Femme”

Ingredients:

6 pcs apples (cooking apples; Pink Lady)
3 tbsps butter; softened
3 tbsps sugar (brown)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 c raisins (opt.)
1/4 c heavy cream
Jelly (Red Currant)
Almonds; slivered & toasted

Instructions:

Apples should be washed and then cored but left whole. Use those corer gadgets but if you don’t have one then your paring knife can work quite well too. Just be sure to use it really carefully. Leave skins on your apples and don’t take off their peel because the peel will be the one to hold your apples as they cook inside your oven.

Put your apples side-by-side inside your baking pan/dish and set it aside. Inside a bowl, mix together raisins, cinnamon, sugar and butter then spoon this mixture right into your apples’ center where the apple core was.

Add in 2 tbsps of water into your baking pan/dish then bake inside your oven for about 1 hr. at around 400 deg. F or just ’til apples become soft. If you’re using the larger kinds of apples, they might take a bit longer to cook. When serving, just drizzle your heavy cream & any leftover sauce from your dish onto your apples then place a dollop of jelly then some of your toasted almonds on top.

Serves 6