APPLE SNOWBALLS.

Ingredients......4 red skinned apples, 2 tbs of brown sugar, 4 whole cloves, 1 banana, mashed, 1 tsp of lemon juice, 2 egg whites, 1/3 rd cup of castor sugar, 1 cup of shredded coconut, 30 gm of flaked almonds. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Lightly grease and line an oven tray. Peel and core the apples. Place 1 dsp of brown sugar and 1 clove in each core cavity, this will flavour the apples while cooking. Stand the apples in a large saucepan with water, 1 cm / 1/2" deep, cover the pot and cook the apples until just tender. Remove the apples from the saucepan and allow to cool. Mix together the mashed banana with the lemon juice. When the apples are cool fill the apples with the banana mix. Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form, add the sugar gradually and continue to beat to a stiff meringue consistency. Cover the apples with the meringue, sprinkle over the shredded coconut and finally top with the flaked almonds. Carefully slide onto the prepared oven tray and bake in the preheated oven until the meringue is lightly browned.