Baked Apples with Honey and Hazelnuts (From Worcester News)

Baked Apples with Honey and Hazelnuts

11:40am Tuesday 25th September 2007 in News By Alan Coxon

Ingredients

4 small cooking apples such as Bramley
25g butter
50g sultana's roughly chopped
50g mixed dried candied fruit peel roughly chopped
50g hazelnuts roasted and roughly chopped
80g dark brown sugar muscavado
2 tbsp clear honey
tsp ground nutmeg
150ml Apple Juice

Method

1 Pre-heat the oven to 180C - gas mark 4

2 Remove the core of the apples

3 Using the point of a small knife insert into the skin, approx 3 quarters up the apple and slit all around piercing the skin only...and keep aside

4 In a bowl, mix together the butter, sultanas, dried fruit, nuts and sugar together and stuff each apple with the mixture, until full and tight.

5 Place the apples in an oven proof dish and drizzle over the honey and dust with the nutmeg

6 Pour the apple juice around the apples and then cover with a little foil

7 Cook for 20 mins

8 Remove the foil and increase the oven to 200C and cook for a further 5 mins

9 Serve immediately, with the pan juices and a little cream