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Halloween wormy baked apples

Halloween wormy baked apples

6 large Golden Delicious apples

1/2 cup raisins

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup firmly-packed brown sugar

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

6 wiggly candy worms (Gummy worms)

1 cup whipping cream (optional)

Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact. Mix raisins and walnuts and then stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set apples, stem up, in a 7 x 12-inch baking pan.

In a 1 or 2-quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir over a high heat on the stovetop, until the mixture boils. Pour hot syrup around apples. Bake uncovered in a 350-degree oven, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, or 30 to 35 minutes.

Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature. Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit. In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling. Pour whipping cream over apples, if desired.

Yield: 6 ghastly servings.