Make baked apples for breakfasts, snacks or desserts.
Baked apples filled with fruits, honey, oats or other mixtures are a delicious treat. When coring an apple for baking, use an apple corer or a paring knife. An apple corer has a rounded blade with two serrated edges and a pointed tip. A paring knife is a small, straight-edged knife. Coring apples for baking differs from coring apples for other purposes, because you want to leave the bottom of the apple in place, so the filler ingredients stay in the apple while you are baking it.
Instructions
1. Wash the apple and your hands.
2. Set the apple on the cutting board and hold it with one hand. Push the corer or paring knife straight through the apple, about ½ inch from the stem. Stop about a ¼ inch from the bottom of the apple.
3. Move the corer in a circle. If you are using a paring knife, pull it out and make new incisions all the way around the core. Don't cut through to the bottom.
4. Twist the core gently to break it off while leaving the bottom intact.
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