Baked Apples with Mincemeat, Cherries, and Walnuts

Ingredients

• 25.4 ounce sparkling apple cider 
• 36 ounces fuji apples 
• 0.3 cup cherries dried
• 1 tablespoon crystallized ginger chopped
• 0.8 cup purchased mincemeat with rum and brandy
• 0.3 cup currant jelly red
• 2 tablespoons butter unsalted ()
• 0.3 cup walnuts chopped

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• baking pan
• melon baller

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
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.
3. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
4. Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around.
5. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes.
6. Serve in shallow bowls.
7. Self