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The Ladybugs' Recipes

Cinnamon-Nut Baked Apples with Maple Glaze
From:  BB
Ingredients:
1/4 c
1 T
1/2 tsp
4
1 T
2 T
 
light brown sugar, packed
chopped walnuts (pecans are good too!)
cinnamon
large baking apples (Rome apples work well)
reduced calorie margarine
maple syrup
Cinnamon sticks to garnish
Procedure:

1.  Preheat oven to 375º.
2.  Place 1/4 cup water in an 8 inch baking dish.
3.  In a small bowl, mix the brown sugar, walnuts and cinnamon.
4.  With a small knife, core the apples, but do not cut all the way through the bottoms.
5.  Peel about 1/2 inch of skin from the top of the apples.
6.  Place the apples in the baking dish.
7.  Fill each apple with the brown sugar mixture, dot with the margarine, then drizzle with the maple syrup.
8.  Bake, basting the apples occasionally with the pan juices, until just tender, about 40 minutes.
9.  With a slotted spoon, transfer the apples to dessert plates.
10.  Pour the pan juices over the apples.
If you like, garnish each apple with a cinnamon stick.

Nutritional Informaion:
    4 points on Weight Watchers, and well worth it!
    223 calories
    3 g. total fat
    0 cholesterol
    39 mg. sodium
    52 gr. total carbs
    6 gr. fiber
    1 gr. protein
    41 mg. calcium

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