How to: Bake Cinnamon Apples

An apple a day keeps the doctor away and is also a healthy way to satisfy a craving for sweets. Apples go with any meal or can be a fulfilling snack. But plain old apples can get boring quickly. Slicing them up, sprinkling them with cinnamon and baking them helps bring out the natural juice and give you the apple pie filling without the forbidden crust and sugar. Here's what you'll need.

First, buy the right apple for your individual need/taste. Here's a handy chart to help you decide which apple is right for you on a particular day.

Materials:

• Cutting board
• Sharp knife
• Covered casserole dish

Ingredients:

• 6 apples
• Cinnamon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice up the apples. I don't have one of those fancy apple cutters so I just slice the apples in half and then slice the other sides off as pictured below.

Layer about 2 apples worth of slices in the casserole dish, then sprinkle cinnamon on top of the slices.










Continue layering until all the apples are used up, then cover the dish after the last sprinkling of cinnamon.










Bake for 45-50 minutes, until the apples are tender. This is the finished product.

Serve with any meal, warm or cold. Walnuts and sliced almonds make wonderful additions--makes them taste like deconstructed pie! Keep the leftovers in the casserole dish in the fridge and enjoy for several days.