Caramel apples on a stick are not only a wonderful treat, but also a good home-made gift. Wrap glossy apples in elegant paper, tie a ribbon and present to friends and acquaintances for Halloween or Christmas.
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You will need
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- 8 medium apples;
- 8 wooden skewers for sautés.
- Milk caramel
- 2 cups brown sugar;
- 1 ¾ cup cream 22% fat;
- 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Bright red caramel
- 2 cups brown sugar;
- ½ cup corn syrup;
- 1 glass of water;
- cinnamon;
- red food coloring.
Instruction manual
1
Rinse the apples thoroughly under a stream of warm water. Use a glove or vegetable brush to remove the wax coating, if any.
2
Prepare baking sheets or a silicone mat.
3
Arrange the apples with the cuttings up, remove the cuttings and insert the sticks into the fruit so that they stick on it like candy. The stick should go somewhere to the middle of the fruit.
4
Fill a large bowl with cold water in half with ice.
5
Combine sugar, cream and butter in a large saucepan. Stir constantly, bring to a boil. Prepare the mixture for about 10 minutes, if you have a thermometer for caramel, it should show 120 ° C. Remove the pan from the heat and place in a bowl of cold water. Keep in water for about 1 minute until bubbles stop forming. Mix cooled caramel from the bottom with warm on top. Remove the pan from the bowl.
6
Take apples one by one, stick in caramel and turn in it around the axis. When taking an apple from caramel, hold it for 10-15 seconds above it so that an excess of sweet syrup does not drip into your kitchen. Place apples with the chopsticks up on the prepared baking sheet.
7
If the caramel has become too hard and it is already difficult for you to immerse apples in it, warm it for several minutes, stirring constantly, over low heat.
8
Leave the apples to cool for 10-15 minutes. According to this recipe you will get a beautiful pale brown caramel.
9
If you want your apples to be in a crimson crust, cook caramel from corn syrup, water and sugar, add red food coloring to the cooling caramel, following the instructions for it, and a little cinnamon.
10
To make your caramel apples look even more appetizing, you can, after dipping them in caramel, dip the bottom or almost all of the apple into crushed crackers, ground nuts, colorful balls to decorate the confectionery, sesame and even coarse sea salt. Do not forget to hold the crumbled apple for about a minute on weight so that the crumbs do not smear when you put the fruit to dry.
Useful advice
After you cook the apples, you will still have a fair amount of liquid caramel. If you feel sorry for throwing it away, put the baking paper in the pan, pour the remaining caramel onto the paper, smooth it with a silicone spatula and sprinkle with nuts, salt or sesame seeds. Let the caramels freeze. Take out the parchment, remove the caramel from it and cut into small squares.