Baked Apples

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup apple cider 
• 0.3 cup brown sugar 
• 3 tablespoons butter cut into pats
• 0.3 cup cherries dried
• 6  gala apples rinsed
• 0.3 teaspoon ground cinnamon 
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg 
• 0.5 cup maple syrup 
• 0.3 cup pecans chopped

Equipment

• bowl
• oven
• casserole dish

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, mix together cherries, sugar, pecans, cinnamon and nutmeg. Put aside.
3. With a melon scooper, core apples to hollow out the middle. Do not go all the way through. Fill each apple core with dry cherry mixture.
4. Pour apple cider into casserole dish and place apples right side up.
5. Place a pat of butter on apple hole filled with mixture.
6. Drizzle maple syrup on top of all the apples.
7. Bake for 50 minutes.