Desserts

Peach Baked Apples

Ingredients:

6 medium baking apples
1/4 cup peach preserves
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup apple cider or apple juice
3/4 cup crumbled chewy oatmeal cookies

Directions:

Cut apples in half and core. Plane in 13 X 9 X 2-inch baking pan, cut side up. Combine preserves, cinnamon and apple juice or cider. Drizzle over cut sides of apples. Cover pan tightly with foil. Bake in 350°F oven about 35 minutes or until apples are just tender. Sprinkle crumbled cookies over cut surface of apples and drizzle with preserve mixture in bottom of pan. Bake 5 minutes longer, uncovered. Serve warm or cold. Can be topped with whipped topping or frozen vanilla yogurt, if desired.

Servings:

6

This is an official 5 A Day recipe. This recipe is approved by the “5 A Day - For Better Health” Program because it provides at least one serving of fruit and/or vegetable per serving, and gets less than 30% of its calories from fat, less than 10% of its calories from saturated fat, has less than 100 mg of cholesterol and not more than 480 mg of sodium.

Source:

U.S. Apple Association (Apple Bits Press Release “Apple-Of-My-Eye Party,” April 30, 1997)

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