Fruit Baked Apples

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Equal® Spoonful (or 12 packets Equal sweetener)
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• Pinch ground cinnamon
• Pinch ground nutmeg
• 2 cups apple cider or juice
• 1 package (6 ounces) dried mixed fruit, chopped
• 1 tablespoon stick butter or margarine
• 8 tart baking apples

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 °F
2. Remove cores from apples, cutting into but not through bottoms. Peel 1-inch around tops. Set aside.
3. Combine Equal®, cornstarch, cinnamon and nutmeg in medium saucepan. Stir in cider and dried fruit. Heat to boiling.
4. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 10 to 15 minutes or until fruit is tender and cider mixture is reduced to about 1 cup. Stir in butter until melted.
5. Place apples in greased baking pan. Fill centers with fruit and spoon remaining cider mixture over apples.
6. Bake, uncovered, in oven for about 45 minutes or until apples are tender when pierced with a fork.

Food Exchanges: Food Exchanges: 2 1/2 Fruit, 1/2 Fat.

Recipe provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®.