Baked Apples With Toffee, Bourbon and Molasses

Submitted by Mom2Rose

"Source: Bon Appetit November 2000"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 31mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 6 apples
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 6 golden delicious apples (7-8-ounces each)
• 6 tablespoons toffee pieces
• 3 tablespoons Bourbon
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1⁄2 cups apple cider
• 3 tablespoons mild-flavored light molasses
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
• vanilla ice cream

directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Peel skin off top third of each apple.
3. Using small melon baller, scoop out stem and core, leaving bottom intact.
4. Stand apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish.
5. Place 2 tablespoons toffee bits around apples in dish.
6. Divide remaining bits among cavities of apples.
7. Add 1/2 tablespoon bourbon and 1/2 tablespoon butter to cavity of each apple.
8. Whisk cider, molasses, sugar and ginger in bowl; spoon over and around apples.
9. Bake apples until tender, basting often with pan juices, about 1 hour 20 minutes.
10. Transfer apples to bowls.
11. Pour juices from dish into small saucepan.
12. Boil juices until thick enough to coat spoon, about 6 minutes.
13. Spoon sauce over apples.
14. Serve apples warm with vanilla ice cream.