Great cold weather dessert – spiced
dried fruit mixture fills fresh apples that are then baked in
an apple cider sauce. It fills the house with tempting aromas
as it bakes.
Fruit Baked Apples
- 1/2 cup Equal® Spoonful*
1 tablespoon cornstarch
Pinch ground cinnamon
Pinch ground nutmeg
2 cups apple cider or juice
1 package (6 ounces) dried mixed fruit, chopped
1 tablespoon stick butter or margarine
8 tart baking apples
- Combine Equal®, cornstarch, cinnamon
and nutmeg in medium saucepan. Stir in cider and dried fruit.
Heat to boiling.
- Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, 10
to 15 minutes or until fruit is tender and cider mixture is reduced
to about 1 cup. Stir in butter until melted.
- Remove cores from apples, cutting into
but not through bottoms. Peel 1-inch around tops. Place apples
in greased baking pan. Fill centers with fruit. Spoon remaining
cider mixture over apples.
- Bake, uncovered, in preheated 350°F
oven about 45 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced
with a fork.
Makes 8 servings.
* May substitute 12 packets Equal sweetener
Nutrition information per serving (1 apple):
calories 176, protein 1 g, carbohydrate 42 g, fat 2 g, cholesterol
0 mg, sodium 22 mg.
Food Exchanges: 2 1/2 fruit, 1/2 fat.
Recipe and photograph provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the
NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®
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