Honey-Spice Baked Apples

* Exported from MasterCook *

Honey-Spice Baked Apples

Recipe By : Woman's Day - 9/1/97
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Not Sent

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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6 lg Golden Delicious, Ida Red or Rome Apples
1/4 c walnuts -- chopped
1/4 c packed brown sugar
2 tbsp stick butter -- softened
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 c dark rum or apple cider or juice
1/4 c honey
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 tbsp minced crystallized ginger

Heat oven to 350°. Have ready a 13x9x2-inch bakind dish or other
shallow 3 1/2 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 1/2 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.

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