Caramel Apples

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 6 medium red apples
• wooden skewer
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup dark corn syrup
• 1 cup light cream
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• chopped nuts, if desired

Recipe

• 1 have apples at room temperature.
• 2 wash and dry apples and stick wooden skewers into the stem end of apples.
• 3 butter a large cookie sheet.
• 4 combine sugar, corn syrup, cream, and butter in a large sauce pan.
• 5 stir to mix.
• 6 cook over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
• 7 do not stir after syrup starts to boil.
• 8 cook to very hard ball stage, without stirring.
• 9 add vanilla.
• 10 dip apples into syrup.
• 11 then hold upright and turn so syrup covers the apples all over.
• 12 work very fast.
• 13 set the apple on a greased cookie sheet to cool.
• 14 roll the lower half of each apple in coarsely chopped nuts, if desired.