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Wickedly Delicious Caramel Apples

Amazing and easy to make caramel apples . You can choose your toppings, use my variations listed below, leave them plain or even make salted caramel! Be sure to watch my video tutorial before making caramel! Link above. Caramel is very hot. Make sure all ingredients are measured before starting and keep kids away from hot caramel. The kids can help with the toppings:) Do NOT use a rubber spatula, it will melt.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword Halloween, kid-friendly recipes, no-bake dessert recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Author Linda Spiker

Ingredients

  • 6-8 green apples
  • 1 T coconut oil or butter to grease wax paper
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • half stick butter
  • 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 tsp sea salt if making salted caramel, 2 tsp vanilla paste if making vanilla caramel

My Topping Combinations:

  • Trader Joe's Spiced Pumpkin Seeds and Dark Chocolate Chunks
  • Peanuts and dark chocolate chunks
  • Chopped dried cranberries apricots and walnuts
  • Shredded coconut almonds and chocolate chunks,
  • Mini white chocolate chips and chopped macadamia nuts
  • Dark chocolate covered pomegranate seeds

Instructions

  1. Before making caramel, combine all your toppings and set out in shallow dishes. Wash apples well and dry. Twist off stem and push popsicle sticks into the top of the apple. Use a paper towel to wipe wax paper with coconut oil or butter. If you place the caramel apples directly on to wax paper you will have a sticky mess.

For caramel:

  1. Place sugar in a heavy bottomed fairly deep pan on med/high heat.
  2. Use a wooden spoon or silicon spatula to push sugar around.
  3. As it melts, it will first start to clump, then crystallize and finally become liquid. This takes about five minutes.
  4. When sugar is completely melted and the color of caramel, carefully add butter (watch video for tips).
  5. The butter will bubble up…hence the fairly deep pan. Stir till butter is melted.
  6. When butter is completely melted, turn off heat.
  7. Carefully add cream in a slow and consistent drizzle while stirring.
  8. When caramel is smooth add sea salt (optional), stir. Let caramel rest for three minutes before dipping apples.

To Dip Apples:

  1. Carefully bring pot of caramel near apples and toppings.
  2. Tilt the pot with one hand while dipping an swirling apple with the other.
  3. Lift apple out of caramel and continue to turn the apple (being very careful apple doesn't fall of stick and splatter hot caramel) for 30 seconds until caramel begins to harden. if the caramel is too hot it will melt toppings and run off apple when set down.
  4. Roll in your choice of topping and sprinkle too if necessary.
  5. Set apple on greased wax paper, set in fridge to cool, and repeat with next apple. When completely cool, remove from fridge, slice and serve.