Deliciously sweet baked apple stuffed with high protein oat vanilla maple filling. Amazing flavors with a fraction of the sugar and fat!
This is a great snack to get an apple pie a la mode flavor fix with lower calories, while also getting dose of protein. This beautiful treat is delicious direct from the oven or cold. These apples are also highly portable – I’ve been packing them in Tupperware this week as part of my meal prep to snack on after a workout. Half of one of these apples is only 150 Calories.
Honeycrisp apples were used here, but any variety will do. Size and type may impact the baking time; you want the apple to still be a bit firm after cooking.
Given the apple already has a relatively high amount of carbs, I used a minimum amount of rolled oats in the filling mixture – just enough for taste. Steel cut oats also work great if you prefer those.
For the fats I incorporated sunflower butter, however almond butter also works nicely. The addition of hemp hearts adds a delicate nutty flavor and some texture to the filling. Crushed toasted almonds or walnuts would be a great substitute if you don’t care for hemp hearts.
For protein, Trutein Vanilla was used. For the cinnamon, adjust the amount to your liking. After baking, the core is dense and cake-like. The additional filling placed on top of the apple makes it really decadent and its a great dip for the “lid”/top slice.
Given that apple has plenty of natural sugar, to keep the sugar lower I used Walden Farms sugar-free pancake syrup in the filling and also drizzled on top of the apple after baking. Traditional maple syrup or pancake syrup also works if you don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners (however it will add additional calories).
Enjoy!
Healthy Vanilla Maple Baked Apple
Ingredients
- 2 Honeycrisp apples (medium)
- 65 g Vanilla Trutein protein powder *Use code “Modus20” at checkout for a 20% off discount*
- 15 g Sunflower butter
- 30 g Sugar free maple syrup
- 10 g Hemp hearts
- 10 g Rolled oats
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon (or more if you really love cinnamon!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F
- Slice the top off of your apples and set tops aside
- Remove the cores of the apples using a paring knife. Take out a bit of the extra flesh around the core to turn your apple into a miniature bowl.
- Soften the oats: In a small bowl, combine the oats with about 25 g of water and heat in the microwave for 30 seconds. Allow to cool.
- Add the Trutein, sunflower butter, hemp hearts, and cinnamon to your softened oats. Slowly add water to this mixture until you have a thick batter.
- Taking half of the batter, fill up your two apples. It’s ok if the batter overflows the top a bit. set aside the other half of the batter for after cooking.
- Place the apple tops back on to the apples and place the apples on a foil lined baking sheet.
- Place apples in the oven and bake for 25 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for at least 10 minutes.
- Remove the top from the apple and cover apple with remaining batter.
- Optional: drizzle with extra SF maple and a sprinkle of hemp hearts.
Notes
Nutrition Info for 1/2 Apple:
149 Calories 13.8 g Protein, 16.2 g Carbs, 3.2 g Fat
These apples taste great warm or cold!
Give this recipe a try and let me know how it tastes!
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