This is the dessert you make when there is nothing in the house but apples. Cut them into thick wedges, because thin ones fall apart into apple sauce as they fry. Butter and brown sugar together in the pan form a caramel that the apple cooks in, and that caramel is half the work.
Peel the apples, remove the cores and cut them into wedges.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the apple wedges for 5 minutes.
Scatter over the brown sugar and cinnamon and let it caramelise.
Spoon the warm apples into bowls with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and roughly chopped walnuts.
Vanilla ice cream alongside is close to compulsory, because the contrast between hot and cold is exactly what this dessert lives on. Walnuts or flaked almonds for bite. A splash of calvados or rum in the pan for a grown-up version. Eat them warm: reheated apples go soft and lose their shape.
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