Baked Apples with Raisins
- 6 7- to 8-ounce baking apples (such as Golden Delicious, Braeburn or Rome Beauty)
- 1 1/4 cups golden raisins
- 3/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
- 1 cup apple juice
- 1/4cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Using melon baller, scoop out stem, core and seeds of apples, leaving bottom intact.
- Using vegetable peeler, peel skin off top half of each apple.
- Arrange apples, cavity side up, in 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish.
- Stir raisins and sugar in small bowl to blend.
- Pack about 2 tablespoons raisin mixture into cavity of each apple.
- Sprinkle any remaining raisin mixture into dish around apples.
- Pour juice over and around apples.
- Dot apples with butter.
- Bake apples 15 minutes; baste with juices.
- Continue to bake until apples are slightly puffed and tender, basting every 10 minutes, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
- Transfer baking dish to work surface; let apples stand 10 minutes, basting occasionally.
- Transfer apples to bowls.
- Spoon pan juices over and serve warm.
baking apples, golden raisins, golden brown sugar, apple juice, butter
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/baked-apples-with-raisins-4966 (may not work)