Butter-rum Baked Apples
Total Time: 40 mins
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 8
- 8 golden delicious apples, with stems
- 2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup dark rum
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 8 slices fresh lemon zest (2 by 1/2-inch)
- 8 whole cloves
Recipe
- 1 preheat dutch oven to 450°f (hot).
- 2 cut off top third of each apple and reserve.
- 3 scoop out seeds and some of flesh from apples using a melon-ball cutter or round teaspoon measure to form a cavity (do not puncture bottoms).
- 4 stand apples in dutch oven tightly.
- 5 heat remaining ingredients in a small saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, until sugar is dissolved.
- 6 pour some of syrup into cavity of each apple and remainder into dutch oven.
- 7 return apple tops to apples and cover oven.
- 8 bake in oven until apples are tender, 25 to 30 minutes (place the majority of coals on the oven lid).
- 9 makes 8 servings.
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