Winter Apple

Preheat the oven to 225 °C (top/bottom heat) and lightly grease an ovenproof dish with butter.

Wash the apples, dry them well, halve them and make a zigzag cut around the edge.

Remove the core from each apple half so a hollow forms for the filling.

Mix the walnuts, marzipan and 2 tbsp rum into a pliable paste.

Fill the apple halves with the marzipan-nut mixture, place them in the prepared dish, drizzle with honey and dot with butter.

Cover the dish with aluminium foil and bake the apples for about 15 minutes in the oven.

Toss the almond slivers in a pan without fat until golden brown, then add cream, rum and sugar to taste and simmer the sauce for about 4 minutes.

Arrange the winter apples on plates and pour the warm almond-rum sauce over them.