Super easy! This crock-pot dessert tastes like warm apple pie, but with a whole lot fewer calories...

Ingredients

• 3/8 cup Brown Sugar
• 3/8 cup Walnuts or Pecans, chopped
• 1 ½ teaspoon Cinnamon
• 3 tablespoons Margarine or Butter, melted
• 6 Apples, cored
• 1/2 cup Apple Juice or Cider

Directions

1. Wash the apples.
2. Core most of the way through each apple, using a hand-held potato peeler (this worked best for me!) or a small pairing knife.  I left about ½ inch apple at the bottom. 
   • You could remove the skin, but I don't, as it helps hold the apple together as it bakes.
3. In a large bowl, mix the brown sugar, nuts, margarine or butter, and cinnamon to make the filling. 
4. Stuff the apples with the filling.

5. Place them in the crock-pot.
6. Pour the apple juice or cider into the crock-pot, around the apples. 

7. Set the crock-pot on high heat and cook for 2.5 hours, or until the apples are soft and begin to collapse.
   • If you don’t have a crock-pot, you can use a casserole dish. Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees and cover the pan with aluminum foil. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour. 

Tips

• There are several alternatives to the nuts.  You could try substituting with chopped raisins, prunes, granola, or rolled quick oats (moistened with 1 ½ tbsp water before stuffing the apples).
• If you don’t have apple juice or cider, you could use apple lime juice or apple vinegar (diluted with water and a little sugar) instead.
• Try eating it with a scoop of frozen vanilla yogurt!

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