Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of unpeeled hazelnuts
• 4 large apples, such as Golden Delicious
• 1 tablespoon of lemon juice
• 3 tablespoons of dried cranberries or raisins
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of turbinado sugar (or sugar of choice)
• 1 cup of unsweetened apple juice
• 1 vanilla pod
• Sour cream

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 375F. Put nuts on a cookie sheet and roast about 8 minutes. Remove and put on a clean towel. Rub nuts together until most of the shells come off. Chop roughly.
2. Cut lids off apples. Core with an apple corer. Remove some flesh to create a cavity. Chop the removed flesh and add to a bowl. Mix with lemon juice. Combine apple flesh with chopped nuts, cranberries and sugar. Fill apples. Put tops on apples and add to a casserole dish. Pour apple juice around apples. Cut open vanilla pod, scrape out seeds and add both to juice.
3. Bake on lower rack for 35 - 40 minutes.
4. Serve with a dollop of sour cream or unsweetened whip cream.

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