Recipe: Pomme au Feu (Baked Apple)

This has got to be the easiest, most delicious dessert ever!  My husband had this dessert in a local restaurant in Antibes and I could not wait to get home to try it out myself.  The dessert looked simple enough: an apple that had been baked, smelled like apple pie, and had the consistency of home made apple sauce.  I searched around for a few recipes on line and then came up with my idea as follows:

Serves 1  ( for more servings, just increase the recipe per apple!)
Prep Time:  15 minutes
Bake Time: 35 minutes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees

1 GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLE
(these are best, the skin is firm but not hard and the inside is deliciously tender)
Core the Apple - need to remove the center core & seeds all the way down

1 Tablespoon of Sugar in the Raw (don't over fill the spoonful, in fact, just under a full Tablespoon!)
(don't use white sugar, it is too sweet)
1 teaspoon of cinnamon (again, slightly less than a full teaspoon)
1 Tablespoon of butter (I used lightly salted)
Honey for drizzling (optional)

Blend the sugar and the cinnamon
Dice the butter (keep each Tablespoon of butter separate per apple if baking more than one apple!)
Place the cored apple onto a square piece of aluminium foil (use individual sheets for extra apples)

Stuff a few cubes of butter into the cored apple, spoon in the sugar/cinnamon, finish with the rest of the butter
Wrap up the apple but leave a tiny gap at the top for the steam to escape while baking.
Place on baking sheet and bake for 25 minutes/375 degrees  mid-oven rack
After 25 minutes, open oven and pour or squeeze/drizzle a little bit of honey into the foil opening over the apple core - (carefully spread the foil open a little bit to help get the honey into the apple center)
Continue baking for 10 minutes
If you don't want to add the honey, just bake for the 35 minutes

After baking, remove tray from oven and carefully open the foil and with a spatula or very large spoon gently place the apple on the plate and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

From start to finish it is less than an hour - this dessert baked while we were having dinner - and it smelled wonderful!  Best served warm right from the oven!