Baked Apples with Mincemeat, Cherries, and Walnuts
Delicious whole Fuji apples stuffed with a festive mixture of mincemeat, walnuts, and cherries, then baked in a sparkling apple cider reduction. A perfect winter dessert combining the warmth of traditional mincemeat with fresh fruit.
Ingredients
- •1 bottle sparkling apple cider
- •¼ cup red currant jelly
- •2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •4 large Fuji apples
- •¾ cup mincemeat with rum and brandy
- •¼ cup chopped walnuts
- •¼ cup dried tart cherries
- •1 tablespoon chopped crystallized ginger
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
12 min
- 2.
Meanwhile, cut cone-shaped piece from stem end of each apple, 2 inches wide at top and 1 inch deep. Using melon baller, core, leaving bottom intact. Turn apple on its side. Starting halfway down, make 1/4-inch-deep slit all around. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
15 min
- 3.
Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls.
45 min
