Baked Apples

4 Bramley (or Granny Smith) cooking apples (cored) 50g butter (pref. unsalted) 50g caster sugar (or 2 tbsp honey) (plus 1 tbsp for finishing touch) 1 lemon (zest of) 2 tbsp sultanas (chopped if posible) 2 tbsp jam (raspberry, strawberry, blackcurrent or apricot) 1 tbsp cinnamon (+1 crushed clove) 150ml sweet dessert wine (Muscat or Soave)

• Preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5.

• Mix the chopped sutanas, jam (optional), chopped nuts, butter, sugar (or honey), lemon zest and cinnamon

• Spoon the mixture into the apples.

• Stand the apples in an ovenproof baking dish. Add the dessert wine and springle the extra tbsp sugar over the apples.

• Cover the dish with foil and bake for 45-50 minutes, but remove the foil after 25 minutes. The apples should be soft and slightly browned.

• Serve with Cream/whipping/double, Custard, Ice Cream or Plain.

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