Wake up your apple desserts with a pinch of crushed red pepper flakes.

[Hotler]

When I make stewed apples or the trouble of a pie I'll throw in a healthy pinch of crushed red pepper flakes. Gives it a nice little tingle at the finish of the bite. Works well with the cinnamon.
Stewed Apples:
2-4 apples cored, peeled and cut up in to small chunks
Tbls± brown sugar
Some fresh lemon juice
A dab of water
pat of butter
1/2 ± tsp of cinnamon
Healthy pinch± of crushed red pepper flakes
Pinch of salt if using unsalted butter.
Cook low and slow till apples are tender. Adjust ingredients to taste.
Try it on buttered toast.
Goes well with yogurt.
Enjoy

[CrispyQ]

1. Yum! Sounds good!

One of my fave breakfast places serves spicy baked apples.

If you like pepper flakes, the dark & smoky from this company is fantastic! I go through a bottle every 2-3 months, so I bought a bundle of three. Pizza, potato salad, minestrone soup, baked potatoes, scrambled eggs, I put it on so many things! The sweet heat is pretty good too, but I was disappointed in the green chile one.

https://www.flatironpepper.com/collections/front-page

[Hotler]

5. Cool, thanks ..... nt

[TlalocW]

2. Commenting

To find later

[marble falls]

3. I wondered what that snoring sound in the kitchen was from. I'm thinking of soaking the sliced apples in Red Bull ...

... next time. Make sort of an apple tossing and turnover.

[Warpy]

4. Every once in a while I'll use a pinch of cayenne

but mostly I season them with a very heavy hand because food at this altitude needs to be spicy/overseasoned to have any flavor at all. Think airline food back in the 70s, when they still served it. What tasted great at sea leavel turned to cardboard in a jet pressurized to 8000 feet.

I wouldn't suggest apple capsaicin pie at sea level, in other words, but the addition works well at altitude. I do prefer heavy lashings of cinnamon and freshly ground nutmeg, probasbly enough to render it inedible at sea level.

There's a reson they put green chile in everything around here.