• Serves: 4
• Preparation: 12 minutes
• Cooking: 25 minutes
• Ingredients:
• Baked apples
• with sweet
• almond crust
• melted butter, for greasing
• 3⁄4 cup almond meal
• 2⁄3 cup firmly-packed brown sugar
• 11⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 egg white
• 4 medium Golden Delicious
• apples, cored
• 60g butter
• vanilla ice-cream to serve

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Method:

• Preheat oven to 180°C. Lightly grease a medium shallow baking dish
  with melted butter.
• Combine almond meal, sugar and cinnamon in a medium shallow
  bowl.
• Mix well to combine.
• Beat egg white in a small bowl with a fork until large air bubbles form.
• Cut apples in half crossways.
• Dip the cut-side of apples into egg
  white and press firmly into almond mixture to form a thick topping.
• Heat 1⁄2 the butter in a medium frying pan over medium heat.
• Place 1⁄2 the apples, cut-side down, into the pan and cook without turning
  for 4 minutes or until golden.
• Remove and place apples, cut-side up,
  in the baking dish.
• Repeat using remaining butter and apples.
• Bake apples for 10–15 minutes or until apples are just tender.
• Serve warm with ice-cream.