Well, I found this fun little tool at Walmart for $1.87. When I first saw these cupcake corers on the internet, I assumed it would be way more expensive and wrote it off as a useless gimicky gadget (say that five times fast!) But, for the price, how could I pass it up. It wasn’t exactly a life altering investment.
Well, good thing it wasn’t. I bought it the weekend I made the apple crisp cupcakes which I already knew I’d be filling with apples. Perfect time to try it out. Unless I used it wrong, it basically just cuts through the cupcake, but it doesn’t pull the middle of the cake out when you take it out. After three attempts, I grabbed my paring knife and finished coring my cupcakes.
Moral of the story – this is not a gadget that you need to make filled cupcakes.