FROM SCRATCH!
I've recently re-discovered the amazingness that is a caramel apple and have fallen to temptation and picked one up every time I've gone to Safeway in the past month (it's only been 3 times... so I'm not too fat yet). So when mom decided to make some while I was home over the weekend, I was pumped.
I found this super cool way to make caramel by cooking a can of sweetened condensed milk on low for 8-10 hours in a slow cooker on Pinterest (my new favorite site). We decided to try this approach because it was less work than the sugar, lemon, cream, and butter recipe that she had found on Fine Cooking.
And frankly, we sort of didn't believe that it would actually work, so we had to try it out!
Before doing anything else (aside from cooking the caramel) we washed and dried the apples. Then we jammed popsicle sticks into the tops of the apples.
I think it would have been a bit more liquidy and a little less brown if we had taken it out sooner...
The caramel was a little stiff, so we decided to heat it in a sauce pan to liquify it a bit... I'm not sure that that worked, but the pan was more convenient for apple rolling.
What I didn't photograph was the rolling process, we just dipped the apple into the caramel in the pan and rolled it around until the apple was covered. Then because the caramel was super thick, we took a butter knife and used it to spread out and remove the excess caramel.
Then, I covered a few of them with SPRINKLES! I used the yummy waxy kind because they are the softest.
Don't they look delicious!
2 comments:
But how did they taste?
they tasted pretty good... although I think they would have tasted much better if we had taken the caramel out of the water about two hours earlier.
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