Crunchy Baked Apples Recipe

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We live in South Carolina's Piedmont area, which is famous for huge apple orchards. This is one of my family's favorite apple recipes. I almost always make this to top off our traditional Sunday dinner.

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Crunchy Baked Apples Recipe

Prep: 20 min. Bake: 40 min. + cooling

Yield: 4 Servings

20 40 60

Ingredients

1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup raisins
6 tablespoons butter, melted, divided
4 medium baking apples
1 lemon, halved
4 short cinnamon sticks
3/4 cup apple juice

Directions

In a blender or food processor, grind walnuts and sugar. Add cinnamon and set aside. Combine the brown sugar, raisins and 2 tablespoons of butter; set aside. Core apples and peel the top two-thirds of each. rub tops and sides with lemon; squeeze juice into centers. Brush apples with 2 tablespoons butter; press nut mixture evenly over peeled sides. Place in an ungreased 9-in. square baking dish. Fill apples with raisin mixture. Place a cinnamon stick in each apple; drizzle with remaining butter. Pour apple juice around apples. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 40-50 minutes or until apples are tender. Cool 15 minutes before serving. Yield: 4 servings.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (1 each) equals 480 calories, 26 g fat (11 g saturated fat), 46 mg cholesterol, 182 mg sodium, 63 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 5 g protein.

Originally published as Crunchy Baked Apples in Country Extra November 1995, p51