Wormy Baked Apples

Directions

Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact.

Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples.

Set apples, stems up in a 7×12-inch pan.

In a 1 to 2 quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter, cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir over high heat until mixture boils.

Pour hot syrup around apples.

Bake, uncovered, in 350℉ (180℃). oven, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 35 minutes.

Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature.

Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit.

In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling.

Offer cream to pour over apples.