Baked Apples with Meringue

By ngaldi

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 2 cups chopped McIntosh or other cooking apple (about 2)
• 1 tablespoon dried currants or raisins
• 1 tablespoon dark rum
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 4 McIntosh or other cooking apples
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/2 cup apple cider
• 2 large egg whites
• 1/4 cup granulated sugar

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°.

Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat;add 2 cups chopped apple, and saute 5 minutes. Stir in currants, rum and brown sugar, and cook 1 minute, set aside.
Core 4 apples, cutting to, but not through the bottoms. Enlarge cavity of each apple by cutting out about 1 inch around inside of core. Peel top half of each apple. Place apples in an 8-inch square baking dish. Spoon 1.2 cup apple mixture into center of each apple. Pour maple syrup and cider over apples; cover dish with foil. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes. Remove from oven; uncover dish.
Beat the egg white at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Add granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Pipe the egg white mixture onto tops of apples. Bake the apples at 350° for an additional 20 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve baked apples at once.