12 Great Apples for Baking
With thousands of apple varieties, how do you choose when a recipe calls for 'cooking apples' or 'baking apples'? Here are 12 suggestions to give your recipe just the right flavor.
Northern Spy
These Northern Michigan natives aren't known for their beauty--they have an irregular, lumpy shape and dull green/red color--but they bake like a dream. "They've got great consistency, flavor and bake-ability," Dodd says. They're harder and crunchier than most apples, and have a mostly sweet, mildly tart flavor. Dodd says they're difficult to come by because they're biannual--meaning they only yield a big crop every other year. Your best bet is to get these directly from a grower.
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