Baked Apples and Granola

To continue my documentation of how culture-saturated, cheese-bread-and-meat-loving, on-the-go-foodies can manage the Daniel Fast, I will share with you the scrumptious dessert we just enjoyed. Mine is still hot on the plate beside me. Well, it was.

Baked Apples and Granola

1/4 cup chopped dried cherries
1/4 cup water
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
2 T fresh apple juice
1 T extra-virgin olive oil
1/4 cup chopped almonds
1/4 cup chopped walnuts

(You may add raisins, coconut, and anything else that sounds tasty)

1 t cinnamon

1/2 t nutmeg

In saucepan, heat liquids, cherries, and spices. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients. Bake on cookie sheet with oven at 375, stirring in 3 minute increments until dry.

*Apples*

Two Apples(+), cored and sliced

3/4 cup fresh apple juice

2 t cinnamon

Combine the cinnamon and juice, pour over arranged apples in baking dish. Bake 375 degrees for approx. 20-25 minutes.

If desired, sprinkle granola atop apples, bake a few extra minutes.