Baked Cranberry Apples Recipe - apples

Method

• 1.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Slice tops from apples.
• Carefully remove cores, taking care not to cut through to bottoms.
• 2.
• Peel skin from orange, leaving the bitter white membrane.
• Dice orange peel.
• Juice orange.
• Throw away membrane.
• Coarsely chop pecans.
• Drizzle 2 Tbsp.
• of the melted butter in the bottom of a 9- by 12-inch baking dish.
• In a small mixing bowl combine cranberries, orange peel, orange juice, pecans, remaining butter, maple syrup, and cinnamon.
• 3.
• Place 1/8 of the mix into each cored apple.
• Put apples into baking dish.
• Cover pan with aluminum foil.
• Bake for 20 min.
• Remove foil and bake till a knife inserted in the side of apples meets no resistance (5 min).
• Apples will be tender but should still hold their shape.