Baked Apples with Meringue

Ingredients

• 0.5 cup apple cider 
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar 
• 1 tablespoon rum dark
• 1 tablespoon currants dried
• 2 large egg whites 
• 0.3 cup granulated sugar 
• 0.5 cup maple syrup 
• 1 tablespoon butter 
• 2 cups mcintosh chopped ( 2 apples)
• 4  mcintosh 

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• blender
• baking pan
• aluminum foil
• ziploc bags
• pastry bag

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 35
2. Melt margarine in a large skillet over medium-high heat; add 2 cups chopped apple, and saut 5 minutes. Stir in currants, rum, and brown sugar, and cook 1 minute. Set aside.
3. Core 4 apples, cutting to, but not through, bottoms. Enlarge cavity of each apple by cutting out about 1 inch around inside of core. Peel top half of each apple.
4. Place apples in an 8-inch square baking dish. Spoon 1/2 cup apple mixture into center of each apple.
5. Pour maple syrup and cider over apples; cover dish with foil.
6. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.
7. Remove from oven; uncover dish.
8. Beat the egg whites at high speed of a mixer until foamy.
9. Add granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a star tip. Pipe the egg white mixture onto tops of apples.
10. Bake the apples at 350 for an additional 20 minutes or until lightly browned.
11. Serve baked apples with sauce.
12. Note: A heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag can be used instead of a pastry bag. Spoon egg white mixture into bag; Snip 1 bottom corner of bag for opening.