Baked Stuffed Apples

Baked stuffed honey crisp apple with chocolate, dates, and oats

One of my favorite foods is apples. I easily eat my apple a day. Sometimes the grocery store is out of my favorite variety to eat raw, but they have one of the best kinds for baking. Other times I just want to switch it up a little.

Baked stuffed apples are one of the easiest desserts to make. They're pretty healthy too. All you need is an apple and stuff to stuff it with. The recipe is easily scalable and you can make a variety of stuffings at the same time.

Baked Stuffed Apples

Preheat to 350 F

• Apples
• 1 Tbsp of gluten-free oats/apple
• Recommended stuffing ingredients
• Chocolate
• Peanut Butter
• Pinch of cinnamon 
• A few drops of vanilla extract
• Honey
• Nutmeg
• Ginger
• Dates
• Apricots
• Nuts 
• Raisins and cranberries
• Citrus fruits

If you can't eat oats I recommended anything that absorbs juices well. The oats help retain the flavor and the juices that come out of the apple as it bakes. 

Take a butter knife and pierce the top of the apple several times around the stem. You want the knife to go in at least 1/2 inch.

Take a spoon, using the cuts from the butter knife, and dig out the top of the apple.

Repeat using the knife and spoon to remove the core of the apple without removing the bottom. The bottom of the apple keeps all of the ingredients contained.

Continue to remove the inside of the apple. Place the spoon against the inside of the apple and rotate the apple shaving away the insides. The more you remove the more stuffing you can add. If you breach the wall of the apple try applying something sticky such as peanut butter or dates to paste the broken apple back together.

Once you've made room for the stuffing, add the stuffing. Either mix the stuffing together or just throw it in.

Bake for 15-20 mins. After 15 minutes the apple will still be a little firm. For softer apples bake for 20 minutes.