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The Best Candy Apple Recipe

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings 6

Equipment

  • Candy Thermometer

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • First you want to wash and thoroughly dry the apples. Like they need to be 1000% dry before coating them!
  • Then you will want to insert the candy apple stick into the top side of the apple. 
  • Get your baking sheet  ready by placing wax paper that is sprayed with cooking spray on it. 
  • In a small saucepan, mix the sugar, corn syrup and water. Attach the candy thermometer to the side of the pan. Make sure the bottom is in the mixture.
  • You will then cook this mixture over medium heat, until the candy thermometer says 300 degrees. This is referred to as the hard crack stage. 
  • After the candy mixture has reached 300 degrees then remove the pan from the heat and stir in the red food coloring until the desired color is reached. I love this red food coloring because it really makes it red rather than a shade of pink.
  • To get the red of these apples it took about ½ tsp of food coloring with this brand. 
  • Once the toffee apple mixture is to the desired color it is time to start dipping apples!
  • Dip each apple into the melted sugars, allowing access to drip off back into the mixture. 
  • Dip each apple 2-3 times before setting them on the sprayed wax paper to set. If at any point your mixture begins to harden too much, put back over medium heat and heat back to 300 degrees and then pull back off.