Baked Stuffed Pumpkin

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 medium sugar pumpkin
• 6 granny smith apples, peeled,cored and chopped
• 1 cup walnuts, chopped
• 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
• 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 cup golden raisin
• 1/2 cup dark rum (optional)
• 2 teaspoons fresh gingerroot, minced
• 1 tablespoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 cut off the top of the pumpkin and set it aside.
• 3 scoop out seeds with a metal spoon.
• 4 in a large bowl, stir together the apples, walnuts, cranberry sauce, pineapple, brown sugar, raisins and rum.
• 5 add the ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon; mix well.
• 6 spoon the mixture into the cleaned pumpkin and replace the top.
• 7 set pumpkin on a baking stone or a baking sheet.
• 8 bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven, or until pumpkin begins to soften.
• 9 remove from oven, stir (scraping the sides gently so that some pumpkin falls into the apple mixture).
• 10 serve warm.