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Ingredients

  • 6 7- to 8-ounce baking apples (such as Golden Delicious, Braeburn or Rome Beauty)
  • 1 1/4 cups golden raisins
  • 3/4 cup (packed) golden brown sugar
  • 1 cup apple juice
  • 1/4cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter

Method

  • Preheat oven to 375F.
  • Using melon baller, scoop out stem, core and seeds of apples, leaving bottom intact.
  • Using vegetable peeler, peel skin off top half of each apple.
  • Arrange apples, cavity side up, in 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish.
  • Stir raisins and sugar in small bowl to blend.
  • Pack about 2 tablespoons raisin mixture into cavity of each apple.
  • Sprinkle any remaining raisin mixture into dish around apples.
  • Pour juice over and around apples.
  • Dot apples with butter.
  • Bake apples 15 minutes; baste with juices.
  • Continue to bake until apples are slightly puffed and tender, basting every 10 minutes, about 1 hour 10 minutes.
  • Transfer baking dish to work surface; let apples stand 10 minutes, basting occasionally.
  • Transfer apples to bowls.
  • Spoon pan juices over and serve warm.