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Apple Pie Caramel Apples

~ lindy

Apple Pie Caramel Apples

*15 Apples, Granny Smith or Red Delicious

*1   1/2 bags (12 ounce bags) fresh Guittard White Chocolate Chips or Ghiradelli White melting Wafers

*2   1/2 packages fresh Kraft Caramels (13.5 ounce bags), unwrapped or Peters Caramels

*1 tablespoon Milk or Water, per package or ounces of caramels to be used when melting

Apple Pie Sugar mixture:

*3/4 cup fresh Brown Sugar

*3/4 cup Granulated Sugar

*1/2-1 tablespoon Cinnamon

*Silpat or Parchment Paper

*15 Wood Apple Sticks, or sticks of your choice

Wash and dry apples. Tip: if you are using purchased apples with a wax on them use 1 tablespoon Lime Juice and 1 tablespoon Baking Soda in a large glass bowl of water. Place apples into bowl and let sit a minute or so and wash/scrub apples, this will help the caramel to stick better to the apples.  (My other favorite way to remove wax is by dipping the apple in boiling water for about 20-30 seconds, remove and dry with clean towel or paper towel.)

Melt 1 bag (13.5 ounces)of caramels, plus 1 tablespoon water at a time in the microwave (in a small round glass bowl that apples will be able to be dip in easily) removing stirring occasionally with wooden spoon until melted. (Dip as many apples as you can with one bag of caramels before melting another bag of caramels for dipping.)

Push apple sticks into bottoms of apples and dip into melted caramel 3/4 of the way up the apple or more if desired.

Let caramel set 20 minutes in the fridge, meanwhile melt white chocolate chips or wafers in another small glass bowl in the microwave, watching and stirring occasionally until chips are melted.

Dip the set covered caramel apple into melted white chocolate, dipping as high-up on the apple as desired.  Sprinkle on apple pie sugar coating while chocolate coating is still “wet”.

Apple “Pie” Sugar-Coating Mixture:

Combine and mix well the granulated sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl or container. Place or set the caramel/wet white chocolate covered apples one at a time into mixture and scoop/sprinkle apples with apple “pie” sugar-coating.

Place covered apples on Pam (cooking spray) sprayed parachment paper or Silpat is best to use and allow to dry/set in the fridge for another 20 minutes and Enjoy!!!

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Also White Chocolate Covered Caramel Apples


  

Enjoy!

Jessica And Lindy

Graveyard Bones

~ lindy

  

Graveyard Bones

Supplies need:

*White Melting Wafers (melt 1/2 a cup of wafers at a time)

*Candy Molds,  Wilton Graveyard Molds or Walmart or Craft Stores

*Powder Cocoa, for dusting and aged look

*Wax Paper, for handmade bones

*Piping/Pastry  Bag, cutting small hole in the tip or use small round decorating tip (you could also use a plastic sandwich bag,  cutting a small corner in 1 of the bottom corners)

Handmade Piped Bones

Melt the wafers in a glass cup,  filled half way with melting wafers, melt in 30 second intervals and  stirring after each interval until melted.  Pour or scoop melted wafers into the pastry or plastic bag and pipe on melted wafers onto Cocoa dusted wax paper, making bone hand shapes or bone shapes.  Pipe about 1    1/2 inch lines for the bones and then pipe two dots at both ends.

For the hand bones,  pipe an upward  line and pipe a hand shape at the top of the line making a hand shape.  (Make it like you were tracing your hand shape on a piece of paper but in small form.)
Allow for the melted wafer shapes to dry and dip your finger into powder cocoa or you could use a  new or a paint brush just used for food decorating.  Lightly rub with your finger or brush the cocoa onto dry bones for look desired.

Tombstone Bone Mold

For the tombstone and bone molds dust molds with the powdered cocoa  using the same technic as described above, making an aged look and easy release from molds.

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Then melt and pour/scoop the melted wafers into molds being careful not to over fill.  Allow the to dry completely.  I like to refrigerate them until set hard and then remove shapes and use for decorating as desired.

Also see Happiness is Homemade
  

  



  
  

    


  
  

  
See  Frankenstein Pops
Enjoy!

Lindy