Get ready for some classic Fall bliss when you make this Old-Fashioned Classic Homemade Caramel Apple Recipe! Just 3 ingredients, and you’re done!
Following is another fun Apple Recipe and guest post by Aimee at Its Overflowing… enjoy!!
This Old-Fashioned Homemade Caramel Apples Recipe makes the perfect Fall treat!
While some prefer apple bobbing, my preference is Apples covered with caramel! They’re a tasty, memory-making, fun-loving, messy treat!
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Homemade Caramel Apples Recipe
Growing up in Northern California, some of my favorite childhood memories were our days spent at Apple Hill. I loved the beautiful California countryside with hills lined in trees, men in overalls, apple bread, cider and butter, and boxes and boxes of varieties of crisp, delicious apples!
Every year, we would bring home a box of apples and we’d help my mom make the sweetest, most delicious homemade applesauce.
Before canning, my mom would always treat us to tasty caramel apples! Living in Texas, regular visits to Apple Hill isn’t an option, but making caramel apples has definitely become a Fall tradition.
Tart Granny Smith Apples combined with Sweet Caramel is the perfect combination. Almost all craft stores carry lollipop sticks in the baking area. If not, Caramel Apples can even be made with sticks from the backyard!
My Sweet B’s love being a part of the process, and I love their help. When I’m ready to melt the caramel, I add 1 Tablespoon of water to a bowl of caramel, then microwave for 2 minutes, stir and then microwave for an additional minute.
If the caramel starts to harden during the dipping process it can be heated for 30 additional seconds, then back to dipping.
Dunk, Dip, and Roll
I like to add Sprinkles to my Sweet B’s Caramel Apples. My Hubby prefers Chopped Peanuts on his caramel apples. I sprinkle the nuts onto the apple, but for the sprinkles, I usually let my sweeties help me press them into the still warm caramel dipped apple. They do a great job. Myself, I’m a purist, straight caramel!
Set on a cake stand lined with wax paper that has been sprayed with Pam cooking spray to avoid the fight between your caramel apple and the paper. Enjoy these outside with your sweeties on a crisp Fall day! And from one mom to another, you’ll want to have wipes available for cleanup.
Homemade Caramel Apples Recipe! {Old-Fashioned Classic}
Ingredients
- 6 Granny Smith Apples
- 11 ounces Kraft Caramels unwrapped
- 1 tablespoon Water
- Optional: Chopped Peanuts and/or Sprinkles
Instructions
- Remove stem from each apple, and press lollipop stick into the top.
- Place unwrapped caramels in large microwave-safe bowl.
- When I'm ready to melt the caramel, I add 1 Tablespoon of water to a bowl of caramel, then microwave for 2 minutes, stir and then microwave for an additional minute, and stir again.
- Quickly Dunk, Dip, and Roll your apples in the melted caramel.
- If the caramel starts to harden during the dipping process it can be heated for 30 additional seconds, then back to dipping.
- Optional: Sprinkle chopped peanuts onto the apple immediately after dipping, or if you prefer sprinkles, press them into the still warm caramel dipped apple.
- Set on a cake stand lined with wax paper that has been sprayed with Pam cooking spray to avoid the fight between your caramel apple and the paper. ENJOY!
Find more for fun crafts, simple diy projects, photography tips and tutorials, and family friendly recipes from Aimee Lane on facebook or on her blog: Its Overflowing.
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Karon Knuist says
Heidi –
Apple Hill is the bomb! I live in Roseville and Apple Hill in the Fall is always on out calendar!!
Karon
Aimee - It's Overflowing says
Thanks so much for sharing my caramel apples Heidi Miller!!!
Heidi says
Aww ~ you’re very welcome, Aimee! Thank YOU for sharing another fabulous recipe with us!! ♥
Sylvia E says
I love caramel apples! I never wanted to make them myself because I knew I would burn the caramel. Didn’t think to microwave the caramels. Thanks for the tip.