Baked Apples with Cranberries, Raisins, and Apricots
Baked Apples with Cranberries, Raisins, and Apricots might be just the dessert you are searching for. This gluten free and vegetarian recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 2g of protein, 12g of fat, and a total of 454 calories. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. If you have golden brown sugar, ground allspice, golden raisins, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Instructions
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.