Oven-baked apple with almond paste

Fall means an abundance of apples, and on a recent visit to Borgholm on Öland, we saw several baskets brimful with apples with the sign “Help yourself” outside houses.  

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  Due to bad weather, Sweden's 2017 apple harvest doesn't look so promising.

• So we helped ourselves and tried this yummy recipe we found in Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.

• Ingredients for 2 people:
  2 apples
  50 g almond paste (or marzipan)
  2 teaspoons calvados (a French apple 'apple brandy') or sherry (optional) and
  1 egg white.

• Instruction:
  Preheat oven to 437 F. Butter an oven-safe pan.
  Do not peel the apples, but core them with a knife and a teaspoon, making sure the bottom stays intact. Mix the almond paste with the egg white (don’t beat it) and the calvados/sherry if you are using it. Put the apples in the pan and fill the cavities with the mixture. Put the pan in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes, depending on how firm the apple is. Let the apples cool a bit and serve them with ice cream or whipped cream.