Baked Apples in Filo Pastry
1995 Winner - Blomidon Inn, Geoffrey M. Caswell

• 4 Nova Scotia apples
• 16 sheets filo pastry
• 1/8 cup raisins
• 1/8 cup currants
• 1/8 cup walnuts
• 1/8 cup softened butter
• cinnamon to taste
• nutmeg to taste
• brown sugar to taste
• 1/8 cup melted butter

Preheat oven to 350°F. Core apples and score the skin all the way around. Combine raisins, currants, nuts, dry ingredients and softened butter. Mix and stuff into the apples. Wrap each apple with 4 sheets of filo and brush with melted butter. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes. Garnish with mint leaf and whole cloves.