Stuffed Baked Apples

By Hklbrries

For a homey winter dessert nothing is better than a warm baked apple. Stuffing it with dried fruit adds a chewy contrast as the apple softens and becomes fluffy. Rome Beauty is the ideal baking apple as it steams and becomes tender in its own skin.

Ingredients

• 4 Rome Beauty apples
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1 tbsp grated orange zest
• 4 tbsp brown sugar (optional)
• 2 tbsp chopped candied ginger
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/2 cup orange juice

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 375 F.

Core the apples. Remove an inch of peel at the top of the apple. Combine the raisins, orange zest, brown sugar, ginger, and cinnamon in the container of a food processor. Pulse to combine. Stuff this mixture into the hollowed cores of the apples, mounding a little on top. Place the apples in a baking dish and place in the oven.

Warm the honey in a small pan. When it is liquefied, add the orange juice. Baste the apples with this mixture every 10 minutes until the apples are tender and feel soft to the touch, 40 to 60 minutes.

Serve warm with yogurt seasoned with a little honey and cinnamon, if desired

Nutritional Information:
Per (1 apple) serving
179 calories
.5 g fat
0 mg cholesterol
7.3 mg sodium