Baked Apples with Crumb Topping

These Baked Apples are filled with a cinnamon brown sugar crumb topping and are the perfect apple treat for fall. Super easy, just core, stuff, and bake!

Ingredients

For the Crumble Topping

¾ cup all purpose flour

¼ cup granulated sugar

1 tbsp brown sugar

¼ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ cup unsalted butter melted then cooled

For the Apples

4 apples cored and peeled just at the very tops

½ cup unsalted butter room temperature

½ cup brown sugar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

For the Crumble

Whisk together flour, both sugars, salt, and ground cinnamon.

Slowly pour in butter and whisk until crumbs develop then set aside.

For the Apples

Start by coring the apples from the top with a small knife but add a small amount of core to the bottom of the apples.

Peel an inch off the tops of the apples.

Evenly divide and fill each apple with butter and brown sugar halfway then completely fill with crumble and pat on the top.

Wrap apples in foil and bake for 25-30 minutes then watch carefully for another 5 minutes to make sure apples are still stable and intact. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes then serve.

Notes

Make sure to wrap your apples tightly with foil to ensure that the contents do not spill out everywhere.

Allow your apples to cool slightly when they come out of the oven.  This will also allow the apple to firm back up a bit since the baking softens its texture quite a bit.

Choose the right apples! Be sure to choose an apple that's not overly sweet and will hold up when baked. Apples that work really well with this are Granny Apples, Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, and Gala.