Caramelized Apples In Custard Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 large granny smith apples or 4 large other tart apples
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 cups milk
• 5 egg yolks
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 for the sauce: scald the milk in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
• 2 blend the yolks and sugar thoroughly in a bowl with a wooden spoon and gradually stir in the hot milk.
• 3 return the mixture to the saucepan and stir over low heat until it thickens to the consistency of heavy cream.
• 4 do not boil or it will curdle.
• 5 at once, strain the mixture into a bowl and stir in the vanilla.
• 6 place a piece of plastic wrap directly on the surface of the sauce and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until cold.
• 7 pare the apples, quarter them, and remove the stems and cores.
• 8 halve the quarters to make 32 apple wedges.
• 9 melt the butter in a large skillet and when it is foaming, add the apple wedges.
• 10 cook over a high heat for half a minute, then turn them over and sprinkle with the sugar.
• 11 cook another few minutes or until the sugar begins to caramelize, then remove the pan from the heat.
• 12 coat 6 dessert plates with some of the custard sauce and arrange 5 or 6 apple wedges, like the spokes of a wheel, on the sauce.
• 13 sprinkle delicately with cinnamon and serve immediately.