This one is really more of a dessert than a breakfast. But it was in the Big Book of Breakfast and I wanted something to go with the zucchini bread (that wasn't eggs). So here we are with some sugary baked apples for breakfast.

Stuffed Baked Apples

Slightly adapted from The Big Book of Breakfast by Maryana Vollstedt

Ingredients

• 4-5 large apples
• 3 Tbsp. brown sugar
• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
• pinch of ground nutmeg
• pinch of ground cloves
• 3 Tbsp. chopped walnuts
• 2 Tbsp. chopped dried cranberries
• 1 Tbsp. butter
• 1 c. apple juice
• 1 Tbsp. maple syrup
• heavy cream and/or crème fraîche

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
2. Scoop the cores out of the apples while leaving the bottoms in tact and peel the top 1/3.
3. Combine the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, walnuts, and cranberries and mix well.
4. Spoon the sugar mixture into the apples and place them in a baking dish.
5. Top each apple with 1/2-3/4 tsp. of the butter.
6. Combine the apple juice and maple syrup and pour it into the baking dish with the apples.
7. Bake at 200°C (400°F) until apples are tender (~30 minutes).
8. Transfer apples to bowls and spoon a bit of the residual syrup from the baking dish over them.
9. Top with cream and/or crème fraîche and serve.