Baked Apples

I like getting the vegetable plate at Cracker Barrel, and it is really cool that the fried apples count as a "vegetable." It is like a built in dessert.

I am not saying these are as good as those, but they are worth trying. This recipe was my attempt at getting something close to those Cracker Barrel apples. And they kept some apples from going bad.

Ingredients:

1 tsp. butter

2 tbsp. brown sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

3 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. ground nutmeg

6 large apples (peeled, cored, and sliced)

3 1/2 tbsp. water

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a large baking dish with the butter.

2. Mix brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a small bowl. 

3. Layer about 1/3 of the apples in prepared baking dish; sprinkle with 1/3 of the sugar mixture. Repeat layers twice more.

4. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Pour water over apples and continue baking until tender, about 15 minutes more.