Baked Apples

Ingredients

4 Granny Smith apples
½ cup sultanas
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp mixed spice
4 tsp brown sugar

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 160^oC.


2. With a knife or apple corer, cut out the core of the apple. Don't go all the way to the bottom, but remove all the seeds and woody parts. Don't peel or chop up the apple, either.
3. Carefully slit the skin of the apple from the cavity to ½ way down the sides. Make 4 to 6 slits in the skin; these stop the apple from exploding out of its skin as it cooks!
4. Stuff the cavities with the sultanas, and sprinkle with the spice and top with 1 tsp brown sugar in each apple.
5. Place in a small baking dish with 1 cm water in the bottom.
6. Spray with cooking spray, especially on the cut skin and the spice.
7. Bake for ½ hour, until the skin separates and the apples are just soft. The stuffing will have disappeared into the apples.
8. Serve hot with low-fat ice cream or sorbet.