Baked Apples with Rum and Cinnamon

Categories: Fruit desserts

Ingredients

• The Glaze:
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1/2 cup dark rum
• 1.2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 6 whole cloves
• The Apples:
• 6 small to medium Granny Smith apples, washed and cored
• 6 cinnamon sticks
• 2 Tbsp; butter, cut into small pieces
• 1 cup unsweetened apple cider
• Rum raisin ice cream, optional

Directions

1. In a medium saucepan, combine the dark brown sugar, rum, alt, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Stir to blend and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Cook and reduce for 3 to 4 minutes to allow the sugar and other ingredients to blend together.

2. For the apples:

3. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

4. In a baking dish large enough to hold all of the apples, arrange the apples in a single layer. Put a cinnamon stick inside the cavity made from coring each apple. Pour the glaze over the apples and top each with pieces of butter. Add the cider to the bottom of the dish and place it in the center of the oven.

5. Cook the apples, basting them from time to time, until they are tender but not mushy, 25 to 30 minutes (smaller apples will take less time).

6. Serve with scoops of ice cream, sour cream or just by themselves.

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