Baked Apples with Cranberries, Raisins, and Apricots
- 4 large Golden Delicious apples
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/3 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 1/4 cup chopped dried apricots
- 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice, divided
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- 2 cups sparkling apple-cranberry juice
- 1/4 cup frozen concentrated cranberry juice cocktail, thawed
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Remove stems from apples.Using melon baller, scoop out core of each apple, making 1-inch-wide hollow center but leaving bottom of apple intact.
- Make 1/8-inch-deep cut in skin around center of each apple.
- Arrange apples, hollowed side up, in 8x8x2-inch glass baking dish.
- Mix raisins, cranberries, sugar, apricots, and 1/2 teaspoon allspice in small bowl.
- Pack fruit mixture into hollows of apples.
- Sprinkle any remaining fruit mixture around apples in dish.
- Drizzle butter into filling and around apples in dish.
- Pour sparkling juice and cranberry concentrate into dish.
- Sprinkle remaining 1/4 teaspoon allspice into dish.
- Bake apples uncovered until tender, occasionally basting with cranberry juice mixture, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Transfer apples to 4 bowls.
- Pour juices from dish into medium saucepan and boil until thick enough to coat spoon, about 4 minutes.
- Spoon sauce over apples.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/baked-apples-with-cranberries-raisins-and-apricots-231306 (may not work)