Yes — pecan BBQ sauce works great with smoked apples. The sweet, nutty, slightly smoky flavor pairs really well with apples, cinnamon, and pecans. It gives the dessert a sweet-savory backyard BBQ twist, perfect for your Girls Gone Grillin’ style cooking.
Ingredients
4 large apples (Honeycrisp or Granny Smith)
3 tbsp butter, melted
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup rolled oats
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
pinch of salt
¼ cup pecan BBQ sauce
Optional: vanilla ice cream
Instructions
1. Preheat smoker
Set smoker to 275°F using pecan or apple wood.
2. Prepare apples
Slice the tops off.
Core the center but leave the bottom intact.
3. Make the stuffing
Mix together:
brown sugar
oats
pecans
cinnamon
nutmeg
salt
melted butter
2 tablespoons pecan BBQ sauce
4. Stuff the apples
Fill each apple with the mixture and mound slightly on top.
5. Smoke
Place in a cast-iron skillet or small pan and smoke 45–60 minutes until tender.
6. Finish Girls Gone Grillin’ Style
Drizzle extra pecan BBQ sauce over the apples right before serving.
Optional finish
vanilla ice cream
whipped cream
extra chopped pecans
Tip: If your pecan BBQ sauce has maple or brown sugar notes (like your sauces often do), it will taste almost like a pecan caramel glaze once warmed on the smoker.
