HALLOWEEN RECIPE: POISON APPLES
These Poison Apples are a fun and spooky way to dress up apples for Halloween - and they taste amazing!
Author: Travelcooktell/Photo credit to travelcooktell.com/
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ cup corn syrup
- ¾ cup water
- ½ tsp blue gel food coloring
- ¼ tsp black gel food coloring
- 6 large apples or 10 medium/small
- 6 wooden skewers or twigs or same number of apples
- waxed papper
- vegetable oil
Instructions
- Wash apples under hot water using a cloth. Dry thourougly.
- Remove the stems and insert wooden skewers (or twigs) into the center of each apple.
- In a sauce pan add sugar, corn syrup, water and blue food coloring.
- Mix ingredients well, until sugar is dissolved. Secure candy thermometer to pan and bring to a boil over medium heat.
- Do not stir past this point.
- Meanwhile place the parchment paper on a baking sheet and grease it with a little bit of vegetable oil.
- After 15 to 20 minutes the caramel will be ready. The temperature must reach 300 degrees (hard crack). If you do not have a candy thermometer, drizzle some of it from a fork - if it hardens when falling, forming strands, it's done (see note 1 bellow).
- Turn the heat off and dip the apples, one by one, in the caramel, tilting the pan and turning the apples so they get an even coating.
- Let excess caramel drip off, hold the apples upside down for some seconds (to avoid excess caramel on the bottom). Do this carefully as the caramel will be super hot.
- Place the apples on the prepared paper to cool.
- If the coating is too thin, dip apples once more and let cool again.
- See notes for darker apples, if the caramel hardens, and what to do with leftover caramel
