Healthy Switch-Up: Baked Instead of Candy

Ingredients

• 6 large golden delicious apples
• 1/2 C. raisins
• 1/2 C. chopped walnuts
• 1/3 C. firmly packed brown sugar
• 1/4 C. water
• 1/4 C. (1/2 stick) butter/margarine
• 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg

Directions

Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact.

Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples.
Set apples, stems up in a 7x12-inch pan.

In a 1-2 quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir over high heat until mixture boils. Pour hot syrup around apples.

Bake, uncovered, in 350 degree oven, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30- 35 minutes.

Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature.

Yield: 6 servings