Recipe: Candy Apples Options

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Yummy Desert: Candy Apples

Red Hot Candied Apples:

6 Red Delicious apples, washed and dried

6 wooden ice-cream sticks

1 cup water

3 cups sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/4 cup red-hot candies

1/2 teaspoon red food coloring

1.Grease a large cookie sheet and set it aside.  Have your children (if they are old enough) remove the stems from the apples and insert a wooden stick part way through stem end of apples.  Set aside on a plate.

2.In 2 quart heavy saucepan, combine remaining ingredients.  Heat the mixture over a medium heat to boiling without stirring.

3.Wipe sides of pan with damp cloth occasionally to remove any sugar crystals that form on the sides of the pan.

4.Boil the mixture, without stirring, until candy thermometer reaches 290F, or when a little of mixture dropped into cold water separates into thin, hard threads, about 20 minutes.

5.Remove the syrup from the heat.  Dip the bottom of the pot briefly in cold water to stop the cooking process.  Tip the pan and swirl each apple in the mixture to coat.

6.Place the apples on the cookie sheet to cool.  Work quickly before the syrup hardens.  Cool for one hour before serving.

Recipe Provided by Martha Matthews