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Crock Pot Baked Apples Recipe

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Ingredients

1/4 c dried cranberries or raisins or dried cherries or mixed dried fruit .
2 tbsps unsalted butter, melted .
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon .
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg .
4 large granny smith apples or cooking apples .
1/2 c sliced nuts (optional) .
1/3 c firmly packed brown sugar .
1/2 c dry white wine or apple juice

Directions

Step #1 Core apples, mix brown sugar & dried fruit (cranberries, raisins, cherries or mixed fruits) & fill the centres of the apples with the sugar/fruit mixture; place the apples in a 5- to 6-quart (5-6 litre) crock pot.
Step #2 Combine the wine or apple juice with the melted butter & pour it over the apples; sprinkle the apples with cinnamon & nutmeg; cover the crock pot & cook on low for 2 to 3 hrs or until the apples are tender.
Step #3 To serve, spoon the apples into individual dessert dishes, spoon the wine/apple juices over the apples, sprinkle with sliced nuts & cream or ice cream.
Step #4 How ironic my introductory words: "looks after itself".
Step #5 True, but it seems crock pots sometimes have minds of their own & produce something other than what we had planned for them to make! From reading many reviews on Zaar, I've come to the conclusion that the results from crock pot recipes are sometimes more unpredictable than recipes made in other ways.
Step #6 I’ve not had anything like Rita’s experience on this occasion, but rather the opposite, which is of course easier to deal with: I’ve several times had to continue cooking on low or to raise the setting to high with other crock pot recipes.
Step #7 And I've at times cooked crock pot recipes for hrs longer than was specified, which has left me wondering how similar or different the low setting is on different brands of crock pot.
Step #8 Rita’s experience suggests that the cooking time needs to be seriously adjusted so until I have a chance to check out this recipe & report back, I’m changing the cooking time from the four to six hrs suggested in the original recipe to TWO to three hrs, which I will do VERY soon, or until the apples are tender.
Step #9 I thank Rita for so graciously accepting the unforeseen fate of her beautiful apples.
Step #10 Such an enticing before picture! And when she looked into her crock pot - her second picture - after three hrs cooking: what a shock! I’m just so glad that she hadn’t gone off for six hrs & left her apples & the crock pot to do their own thing - & I'm so pleased that at least the cooked apple sauce was delicious.
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