Honey-spice baked apples
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | larges | Golden Delicious; Ida Red or Rome Apples |
| ¼ | cup | Walnuts; chopped |
| ¼ | cup | Packed brown sugar |
| 2 | tablespoons | Stick butter; softened |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ground cinnamon |
| ¼ | cup | Dark rum or apple cider or juice |
| ¼ | cup | Honey |
| 1 | tablespoon | Fresh lemon juice |
| 1 | tablespoon | Minced crystallized ginger |
Directions
Heat oven to 350°. Have ready a 13x9x2-inch bakind dish or other shallow 3½ to 4 quart baking dish.
Core apples without cutting through to bottom, making a cavity about 1 inch wide. Using a vegetable peeler, peel apples halfway down. Put walnuts, brown sugar, butter and cinnamon in small bowl and stir until blended.
Stuff mixture into apple cavities. Spoon ½ tsp rum over filling in each apple.
Place apples in baking dish. Put remaining rum, the honey, lemon juice and ginger in a small bowl and whisk until blended. Drizzle over and around apples.
Bake, basting apples with pan juice a few times, until apples are tender when pierced with a knife, 45-55 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Recipe by: Woman's Day - 9/1/97 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #701 by The Taillons <taillon@...> on Jul 31, 1997