Arabian Nights Baked Apples

Ingredients

6 large Cooking Apples
1 cup Water
1/4 cup CSR Caster Sugar
Thinly sliced peel from one Orange
1/4 cup chopped Dried Figs
1/2 cup chopped Stoned Dates
1/4 teaspoon Cloves
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 tablespoon Rum
Apricot Jam
CSR Brown Sugar
Butter

Method

1 : Core apples and peel the top quarter of each apple. Place apples peeled stem side up in a baking dish.
2 : Mix together water and CSR Caster Sugar and add with orange peel to baking dish, pouring around apples.
3 : Mix together in bowl figs, dates, cloves, cinnamon and rum. Stuff some of mixture into centre of each apple, so that it
is evenly distributed between the six. Top each apple with a teaspoonful of apricot jam.
4 : Cover the baking dish and cook apples in oven preheated to 180oC for about 35 mins.
5 : Remove foil, sprinkle top of apples fairly heavily with CSR Brown Sugar. Add a small knob of butter to the centre
of each.
6 : Raise oven temperature to 190oC and cook for another 10 mins, testing for tenderness with a skewer inserted into
apples. Serve with sauce from dish spooned over.

Brown Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar, sugar syrups

This popular sugar is used in many recipes, both savoury and sweet. A concentration of natural syrups gives it a soft natural caramel colour and aroma. Thanks to its delicious smooth caramel taste, it is often used in dessert recipes and sprinkled on porridge. CSR Brown Sugar is also ideal for adding sweetness to savoury dishes such as stir frys and sauces.

White Sugar

Ingredients: cane sugar

Here's one we all know and love! The uniform size of the sugar crystals gives you a regular texture and consistency, making it the perfect ingredient for baking and sweets.