Recipe: Caramel Apples
Summary: Caramel apples are simple to make and rather inexpensive considering what a ready made caramel apple will cost you at a candy store.
Recipe courtesy of: Mennonite Girls Can Cook
Ingredients
- very fine sandpaper
- Popsicle sticks
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup golden corn syrup
- 1/2 cup butter (do not use margarine)
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- about 18 medium sized apples
- crushed nuts and various candy’s and or melted chocolate for drizzle
Instructions
- Wash apples and dry them.
- Use fine sandpaper to give them a bit of a rub. This will help the caramel to adhere. Do not break the skin.
- Use a tea towel to wipe the apples down, stick Popsicle sticks in the stem end and set aside.
- Prepare several cookie sheets by putting parchment paper down or be sure to grease your sheets well.
- Combine the brown sugar, corn syrup and butter in a medium saucepan.
- Stir over medium heat until butter melts and then add the sweetened condensed milk.
- Boil on high heat stirring constantly until a candy thermometer reaches soft ball stage. .230 degrees.
- This will take about 20 minutes.
- Keep stirring.
- Let cool about 5 minutes.
- Dip the apples into the caramel and set onto the parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
- If you wish to dip them into crushed nuts . .do that now. .and let them cool on cookie sheets before finishing the decorations.
- Place them in the refrigerator to cool slightly.
- Once they have cooled, you can decorate them.
Meal type: snack