Recipe - Baked Apples In Phyllo Cups

4 Phyllo pastry sheets (17x12"
4 Baking apples
One fourth cup Lightbrown sugar
2 tablespoon Walnut pieces,chopped
One half teaspoon Cinnamon,ground
10 ounce Frozen raspberries*

* in light syrup, thawed, drained and syrup reserved.

1. Place 2 phyllo sheets side by side on flat surface. Keep remaining
phyllo covered with damp cloth. Lightly spray each sheet with nonstick
cooking spray. Stack sheets. Cut into 6 squares. Stack squares in 2 stacks,
3 squares each. Cover with damp cloth. Repeat.
2. Press stacks, sprayedside down, over outside of 4 inverted 6ounce
custard cups. Place on rimmed baking sheet.
3. Bake in preheated 375'F. oven 810 minutes until golden brown. Remove to
rack to cool. Remove phyllo cups from custard cups. (Cups can be made up to
2 days ahead; store in airtight container at room temperature.)
4. Reduce oven temperature to 350'F. Core apples from stem end, leaving
bottom intact. Pare skin from top third of apple. Place apples in small
baking dish.
5. Combine sugar, walnuts, cinnamon. Stuff into cored centers. Allow any
overflow to fall into baking dish. Pour reserved syrup over apples.
6. Bake in preheated 350'F. oven 3045 minutes or until tender, basting
every 10 minutes with syrup from dish. If syrup is too thick, add One fourth cup
boiling water. Remove apples to phyllo cups. Stir raspberries into syrup
remaining in baking dish. Spoon over apples. Sprinkle with 10X sugar. Serve
at once.

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