Baked Apples with Caramel Sauce |
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 1 Minutes |
Ready In: 16 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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These are scrumptious. Ingredients:
7 teaspoons chopped walnuts |
7 teaspoons raisins |
4 granny smith apples |
1 teaspoon freshly-grated lemon, zest of |
1/4 cup butter, melted,plus |
1 tablespoon butter, melted |
6 tablespoons sugar |
1 1/4 cups brandy |
1 tablespoon butter, cut into bits |
2 tablespoons sugar, plus |
2 teaspoons sugar |
2 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar, plus |
2 teaspoons firmly packed brown sugar |
1/4 teaspoon salt |
1/2 cup heavy cream |
whipped cream, as an accompaniment |
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 330 degrees F.
2. In a bowl, combine walnuts, raisins, 1/4 cup melted butter and 4 tblsps sugar.
3. Peel and core the apples, leaving them whole.
4. Arrange them in a pie plate just large enough to hold them in one layer, and fill the cavity of each apple with 1/4 of the walnut-raisin mixture.
5. Sprinkle the zest over the apples with 1 tblsp melted butter and 2 tblsps of the sugar.
6. Pour brandy around apples.
7. Bake, basting occasionally, for 1 hour to 1 1/2 hours, or until apples are tender.
8. Keep warm, covered loosely.
9. For sauce: In a saucepan, combine butter, sugars, salt and cream and cook over low heat, stirring, until sugar is dissolved.
10. Increase heat to high, boil sauce for 2 minutes, and let cool to room temperature.
11. Divide sauce among 4 dessert plates and put apple in center.
12. Top with whipped cream.
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